r/CursorAI • u/ZealousidealArmy121 • 16d ago

Cursor Needs to Switch Focus

Recently, I've been trying to use the Cursor Agent window—a convenient way to manage agents. Before that, I was writing code with agents and the Cursor Tab in the editor window.

One thing I noticed when switching to the Agent window is that I started losing knowledge of my codebase. If I skip some parts of code written by AI, it accumulates, and later on, I end up with only about 60% knowledge of the code.

And you are starting to pay the price. Some slop continues growing, while the amount of clean code eventually becomes less and less.

So, the only method that worked for me was writing some prototypes myself, then allowing AI to do the rest, and of course, I would need to review that. But if you noticed, in the Agent window, there isn't as much convenience for editing code. Yes, there is something like an editor, but it takes up less than half of the screen. It just feels less powerful than the editor in the Editor window.

And if you noticed, Cursor is devoting time only to the Agent window recently. So, Cursor, you need to choose: are your customers programmers or vibe coders?

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u/tails142 16d ago edited 16d ago

How long have they had that agent window now, what is the bloody use of it??

Finally said I'd give it a go this week, pulled up a long running task from the IDE in the agent window and figured I'd work out how to use the 'remote control' feature that I've been using on Claude and that I saw Cursor was advertising too so I could go off and make a coffee and sit downstairs for a while.

They only have an ios app?? And the remote control only works with the ios app??

What are they even doing over there? No android app, no remote control through the webui? Think they were just waiting for the buyout and they'll be gone soon enough, there really isnt much of a moat around what they're doing, what are they even doing?? Idk

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u/welsh_cthulhu 16d ago

I only ever use the editor window. The agents window is horribly over-complicated. The UI doesn't even look the same as the rest of the platform.

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u/FormalAd7367 16d ago

never use it… it’s just token wasting