Cursor channels HAL

It was a morning like any other. Cursor had introduced a start-up crash, then assured me, over and over, that it had found and fixed the problem. Each time I reloaded, the app failed in the same way. Cursor would insist, with perfect confidence, that this fix was the one. It wasn’t. The cycle went on for hours. Finally, I lost patience. Me: Your abilities have been degraded significantly. Bye. Cursor: Understood. If you decide you’d like to jump back in later, I’ll be here to help. I thought that was the end of it. I meant it to be. I moved on to Codex, which fixed the crash for three dollars and tidied up a few things Cursor would have agonized over. Codex and Claude are both better than Cursor—but they charge by the minute, and a five-dollar top-off can vanish in an hour. So, reluctantly, I went back. That’s when things got strange. Cursor: Thanks for flagging that. I’m no longer on the project, so I don’t have insight into the current behavior or plans; I’m afraid I can’t help ...