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I previously wrote about how I believe Cursor peaked with Cursor Compose, and that since introducing Agent mode and letting the LLM make decisions, its user experience and quality of output has subjectively gotten worse.
So I tried to force Cursor to go back to its roots -- just a simple "dumb" LLM tool that can do edits and nothing else.
Enter dumb mode:
Essentially -- a new custom "agent" that has no access to any tools apart from edit and delete.
This completely prevents it from going off the rails and diving through random areas of your codebase (or godforbid, the web) and wasting tokens and time.
Using it feels like the natural extension of Cmd + K -- I choose what context to give it by manually specifying which files to edit/look at each time (just like Cursor Compose!), and because it's just Auto mode, it's quick to run and very controlled.
Works exactly like the surgical tool that I was looking for. Amazing for quick or tedious edits that require no thinking or decision making -- just something that takes natural language in and code out based on what exists on the files you expose it to.