I've seen agents make waaaaay to many mistakes, incorrect diagnosis and over-enginerred, bizarre and straight up incorrect solutions to let them run amok, not too mention the poor code quality, naming, inconsistency etc. I just don't trust them to run independently. At this point in time I'm staying firmly in the driver's steat. Answer from bludgeonerV on reddit.com
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It's a demonstration of Cursor's IDE showing AI-powered coding assistance features. The interface is displayed over a scenic painted landscape wallpaper, giving the demo an artistic backdrop. ... Help me understand how teams split their focus between the tab view and the agents panel across ...
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In the agent sidebar, pin chats at the top for future reference. ... When creating plans, Cursor responds with clarifying questions to improve the plan quality. Cursor now shows an interactive UI to easily answer questions. You can also ⌘+F to search inside generated plans. ... You can now find and fix bugs directly in Cursor with AI ...
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We’ve put a lot of effort into improving Background Agents and they are now twice as fast to start. ... AI code tracking API: Get commit-level visibility into AI usage and accepted changes across your team.
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I reverse-engineered Claude Code & Cursor AI agents. Here's how they actually work
The way you added "precision", "intelligent", etc makes me believe that you didnt write this. More on reddit.com
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March 27, 2025I'm really disappointed with Cursor AI (Paid sub)
Whether you’re coding from experience, looking up solutions to co-opt from stack overflow or building something using an AI editor (web portal or IDE), you still need to at least understand what you are changing. If I found something that worked in 100lines I would want every single one explained to me before I’m adding into my codebase. I also know flow-on effects like calling something before its initialiser/constructor will never work. But I will still back up first. If you’re allowing the AI to insert the code for you, stop and let it show you where it’s putting your new code and why. If you don’t understand what it’s adding, or why it’s adding it in a specific location then you’re going to have issues where you don’t know what broke. Don’t be afraid of asking the LLM to explain what and why it’s doing anything, and to elaborate if you need. Right now you just got in the back of a new rideshare service thinking it’s an Uber and turns out you’re in the back of some toddlers pull-wagon going nowhere. Have fun with it! But back up regularly, ask questions, and also learn to use gpt-o-mini to avoid depleting your sonnet allowance on trivial stuff too. More on reddit.com
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September 18, 2024My honest review after 3 months with CursorAI: Don’t use it
I don't use it in agent mode, ever. I look over all proposed changes and approve them one by one. I work on branches in case I have to revert. I work on discrete features that can be localized. If there is some feature that affects a large part of the codebase I have it propose a plan first. After reviewing the plan I have it propose changes and approve them one by one. I have tried to let it do more but that way lies disaster. You have to be patient and careful. It makes me much more productive but I am still doing a lot of work. More on reddit.com
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April 22, 2025Cursor users: has AI actually made you a better developer, or just faster?
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December 29, 2024Videos
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Reddit
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r/cursor on Reddit: Cursor's AI Agents: Game-Changer or Overhyped?
August 19, 2025 -
I've been exploring Cursor's AI agent mode recently. It's impressive how it can handle tasks end-to-end, from generating code to executing commands. However, I wonder if relying heavily on AI agents might lead to overengineering or unexpected issues.
For instance, I read about a developer who lost months of work due to a misstep with Cursor's AI features. It made me think about the balance between leveraging AI for efficiency and maintaining control over our codebases.
What are your experiences with Cursor's AI agents? Have they boosted your productivity, or have you encountered challenges?
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I've seen agents make waaaaay to many mistakes, incorrect diagnosis and over-enginerred, bizarre and straight up incorrect solutions to let them run amok, not too mention the poor code quality, naming, inconsistency etc. I just don't trust them to run independently. At this point in time I'm staying firmly in the driver's steat.
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I have given a couple of tries, I have mixed feelings; First of all, for any agentic/delegated task, you need to do real good planning in order to manage the boundaries and specify the details. But if you do such planning, you can just "run" what you have documented in auto-mode and it will be done in minutes if not seconds, why bother delegating that task to a background agent while you can test the feature just now. I tried bigger tasks with multiple todo's but same issue, in order to get the full efficiency, you need to go into detail of each #TODO extensively, which just again takes away the advantage of work delegation (because the heavy lifting is not execution, it is the analysis part) So I thought "what if I use an agent that will handle the analysis with me through conversation throughout the day and then that agent creates a cursor background agent in a new feature branch and continue with development as we talk, I can switch to that branch once in a while and see the progress" Well this worked. I set up a custom slackbot just for analysis document preparation and yes it works as it is intended. The slackbot I created is not smart so the work quality is low I should invest more to that slackbot but overall this is the only efficient usage I could come up with.
DEV Community
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How I Built an App with Cursor AI Agent for the First Time (the Good, the Bad, and the Drama) - DEV Community
January 24, 2025 - For my initial settings, I had claude-3.5-sonnet model, in "normal" mode. I later changed this to "agent." I created a .cursorrules file in the folder, which serves as general context for how I want AI to act and respond.
Cursor
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Features · Cursor
September 20, 2025 - Cursor's codebase embedding model gives Agent deep understanding and recall. ... Choose freely between frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and xAI. AutoSuggestedComposer 1GPT-5High Fast✓Claude Sonnet 4.5Claude Opus 4.5Gemini 3 ProGrok Code · Make targeted edits or run terminal commands with natural language. Interactive demo with multiple windows showing Cursor's AI-powered features.
Cursor AI
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Getting started with Cursor AI
5 days ago - To be honest, I always leave mine in “Agent” mode at this point. The only downside of Agent mode is that sometimes the AI is a bit too eager to make changes to your codebase.
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Modes | Cursor Docs
November 3, 2025 - Configure Agent modes with different tool combinations for specific tasks.
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4 days ago - The best LLM applications have an autonomy slider: you control how much independence to give the AI. In Cursor, you can do Tab completion, Cmd+K for targeted edits, or you can let it rip with the full autonomy agentic version.
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Cursor Agent CLI
August 7, 2025 - As the quality of code generated by AI models improved, we added Agent to allow models to generate files, run terminal commands, search your codebase, and more. This year, we expanded Cursor Agent from the editor to web, mobile, and Slack. Cursor Agent is one of the most popular ways developers use the product.
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Cursor Agents Initial Impressions - Allow an AI to Build Your Entire Project | egghead.io
You give it a goal, then it will suggest the commands you need to run and the files that you need to create and you can work with it to achieve what you're building. This lesson does a quick walkthough of using a Cursor Agent to build a project from scratch and guide it along the way.
Nearform
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Battle of the AI agents: Cursor vs. Copilot | Nearform
April 7, 2025 - Both tools are relatively easy ... Cursor is a dedicated integrated development environment (IDE), a fork of Visual Studio Code (VS Code) with AI features, including agent mode built in from the ground up...
Medium
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[Cursor/AI Agent] What is difference between Agent and Edit. | by Jongchan Ko | Medium
March 3, 2025 - Cursor Agent is a powerful AI tool that revolutionizes the developer’s coding workflow. In Agent mode, AI can understand the entire codebase, modify multiple files simultaneously, and execute terminal commands.
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Cursor on web and mobile
June 30, 2025 - Just like the familiar agent that works alongside you in the IDE, agents on web and mobile can write code, answer complex questions, and scaffold out your work.
Apidog
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How to Use Cursor AI Agents
April 1, 2025 - Cursor AI Agents are your built-in, intelligent assistants within the Cursor IDE, crafted to dramatically improve your coding productivity. These agents do more than just offer code completions—they actively collaborate with you on complex ...
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AI Agents Directory
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Cursor | AI Agents Directory
November 13, 2025 - Cursor: AI Agent revolutionizing coding. Boost productivity with intelligent predictions, natural language input, and VS Code familiarity.
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Cursor – Agent
AI assistant that uses tools and reasoning to perform coding tasks with minimal supervision · You can delegate tasks to Cursor Agent and let it work alongside you. Agent performs its work in Composer and is built on top of it. Make sure to read about Composer to best work with Agent.
Reddit
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r/LangChain on Reddit: I reverse-engineered Claude Code & Cursor AI agents. Here's how they actually work
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After diving into the tools powering Claude Code and Cursor, I discovered the secret that makes these coding agents tick:
Under the hood, they use:
View tools that read/parse files with line-by-line precision
Edit tools making surgical code changes via string replacement
GrepTool & GlobTool for intelligent file navigation
BatchTool for parallel operation execution
Agent delegation systems for specialized tasks
Check out our deep dive into this.
TechCrunch
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Cursor launches a web app to manage AI coding agents | TechCrunch
June 30, 2025 - Cursor is launching a web app thats allow users to manage a network of AI coding agents via browser, on desktop and mobile.
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August 27, 2023 - Delegate an issue or mention @cursor in a comment to start an agent's work on the task. ... You can start using this integration today by connecting your Linear workspace from the Cursor dashboard. ... MoE layers can be really slow. When training our coding models · @cursor_ai, they ate ...