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>>tablet+(OP)
I love LLMs, and I really like programming with Cursor, but I never managed to get the "agents with tons of stuff in their context" mode to work for me. I use Cursor like a glorified code completer, 4-5 lines at a time, because otherwise the LLM just makes too many mistakes that compound.

If you let it run in the "write my code for me" mode, and ask it to fix some mistake it made, it will always add more code, never remove any. In my experience, in the end the code just ends up so brittle that the LLM will soon get stuck at a point that it never manages to overcome some mistake, no matter how many times it tries.

Has anyone managed to solve this?

>>stavro+7H
Make sure you include lots of files of context (including any type definitions!) After a big change before approving any code ask it: "Is this the simplest and cleanest approach?" Usually it will make more revisions and actually produce clean code then. You can also say that in the original prompt, or specify the structure of the change you want it to make.

>>lubuja+6Q2
Oh nice, I'll try the simple thing, thanks!