Frequent Cursor updates are breaking features and disrupting workflows
A long-term firsthand experience describes Cursor’s changing repeatedly over several months while everyday use became less reliable. File search, the minimize button, and connections sometimes stopped working, forcing an update. After updating, buttons had moved again, making features hard to find, and some buttons caused the to break visually.
Existing abilities also failed: plans could not be edited, conversation tabs could not be renamed or reordered, and keys used to connect outside models no longer worked. The agent also lost the ability to launch . Switching to Claude Code did not seem like a clear solution because it felt similarly unstable and its was also frustrating.
The central concern is that expensive tools now treated as essential for software work should provide basic stability and .
Key points
- File search, window minimization, and connections stopped working at different times.
- Updates repeatedly moved buttons and disrupted familiar workflows.
- Plan editing, conversation-tab renaming and reordering, and outside-model connections failed.
- The agent could no longer launch , even though that feature had worked before.
- Claude Code did not feel like a dependable replacement because of similar stability and concerns.