unpopular opinion: cursor and claude code arent getting dumber, their agent loops are structurally blind and suffocating your context window

In three linesA user critiques the architecture of code agents (Cursor, Claude Code): models aren't degrading, but their exploration loops are structurally blind. They dump massive files into context, generate noise (logs, MCP definitions), and lose project memory per session, saturating the context window before reasoning begins.

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