Always Use Max Models in Cursor IDE
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If you've been using Cursor IDE since its early days, you might have noticed a bizarre decline in quality around the time Claude 3.7 Sonnet was released. What used to be a reliable AI coding assistant suddenly became frustratingly obtuse - missing obvious references, forgetting about files you explicitly added to context, and generally acting like it had severe memory issues.
If you've been using Cursor IDE since its early days, you might have noticed a bizarre decline in quality around the time Claude 3.7 Sonnet was released. What used to be a reliable AI coding assistant suddenly became frustratingly obtuse - missing obvious references, forgetting about files you explicitly added to context, and generally acting like it had severe memory issues.