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Cursor IDE users report AI context pollution across chats

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Users of the Cursor IDE are reporting an issue where new chat sessions are being influenced by the context of other ongoing chats. This "cross-chat pollution" leads to unpredictable AI behavior, with new chats sometimes continuing tasks from previous sessions or overriding user-defined constraints like "no browser use." This unintended context sharing is causing frustration and making the AI's responses less reliable for users. AI

IMPACT Degrades user experience and predictability in AI-assisted development tools.

RANK_REASON User-reported issue with a specific software product.

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Cursor IDE users report AI context pollution across chats

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  1. r/cursor TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/jthen123 ·

    Cross-Chat pollution

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>In the past I continued a topic purposefully in a new chat or forked to get better results and not have the AI get hung up on e. g. a feature that i played with but ultimately discarded. </p> <p>Recently it seems when opening a new chat it checks…

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