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Cursor AI coding assistant suffers context decay, users report

A user on Reddit reported that the AI coding assistant Cursor frequently breaks their code after a certain number of messages within a chat session. The AI reportedly begins hallucinating dependencies or referencing deleted functions, which the user attributes to the context window filling up and the model generating fabricated information. The user found a workaround by starting new chats every ten messages and pasting the previous few as context, and also noted that shorter, more specific prompts maintain context quality better than large, complex requests. AI

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IMPACT Users of AI coding assistants like Cursor may encounter issues with context window limitations leading to degraded performance and code errors.

RANK_REASON User reports on a specific product's functionality issues.

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  1. r/cursor TIER_2 · /u/RegularSalamander212 ·

    Cursor breaks my code every time I add a feature here's what I changed after 6 months of broken builds

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>spent months fighting this issue where cursor would work great for the first 20 messages of a chat and then suddenly start hallucinating dependencies that didn't exist or referencing functions I deleted three prompts ago. the conversation would g…