Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it + limit of 800 locs – Bug Reports – Cursor

Hi all,

Yesterday I installed Cursor and currently on Pro Trial. After coding a bit I found out that it can’t go through 750-800 lines of code and when asked why is that I get this message:

Not sure if LLMs know what they are for (lol), but doesn’t matter as a much as a fact that I can’t go through 800 locs. Anyone had similar issue? It’s really limiting at this point and I got here after just 1h of vibe coding

My operating system is MacOS Sequoia 15.3.1

Lol yes the message is actually funny. Not sure why it would write that in reality, never saw it happen.

So, in general its a bad idea to have huge files with code.
Not just because of AI context limit but also for humans to handle them.
Too big files are often a sign that a project is not well structured and the concerns of each file/class/function etc are not separate from each other.

It also seems you are not using the Chat window with the integrated ‘Agent’ which would create that file for you easier than in the ‘editor’ part of Cursor.

oh, I didn’t know about the Agent part – I just started out and just got to it straight out. Maybe I should actually read the docs on how to start lol

Should I ask it to chunk it out?

So as you are starting with Cursor i highly recommend going through the Docu to learn what it can do… and how to use each part

Yes it would help to ask it to split parts, depends on what language you use (looks like JS?), AI can then use import statements to include those separate files into your ‘start file’.

Usually its a good idea to do modular programming (split functionality into modules or classes or functions, depending on language or framework).
If you tell AI to use for example Single Responsibility Principle as guideline when coding it will not mix different features in one file. You may also create rules (see docs) that tell the AI for example to keep files under 500 lines limit (a bit over is not tragic but the more lines the harder it will be for AI)…

Hey @T1000 . Thanks for your advice the other day, my post got deleted for an unknown reason, but I decided to go ahead and purchase a one month cursor pro subscription as you advised, I didn’t experience any major problems with the new releases and I’m enjoying it.

Cool, yes i saw your comment mentioning that in another thread and i particularly liked the original thread you made. Happy to chat any time.

lol i think it’s awesome haha! never saw something like that, i have 3 files with 1500+ loc in my codebase (still waiting for a refactoring) and never experienced such thing.

could it be related with some extended inference from your rule set?