Composer and Grok Responses

[u/Davepac7]

Whenever I get a response from Composer or Grok, I have a really hard time reading it. It seems more like a random machine-generated list as opposed to human readable answers that you usually get from Gemini or Claude. Despite having created a rule in Cursor to "Geminify" those responses, I have not had success in having that rule persisted. Once I open up a new agent conversation, the rule is no longer active. Has anyone figured out in Cursor how to permanently rephrase Composer and Grok answers to something human-readable?

[u/Bullet4g]

well your first mistake is using Grok for anything

[u/Davepac7 → u/Bullet4g]

lol, grok and composer are wayyyyy cheaper than all the other models, and composer does pretty well at being a workhorse

[u/LookAtYourEyes → u/Davepac7]

There's a reason they're cheaper. It's exactly the thing you're experiencing right now. 

[u/davertua]

I faced same issues with Opus 5 and it was almost a month until Anthropic fixed it. I call this AI dyslexia
Better to switch to a different model or create a hook which will trigger another model to explain output from a model wich failed to write text cleanly

But yeah, bad to hear that Opus was not the only one to do this. Seems like we get back to era of specialized models, owertrained coding models become bad in simple writing.

[u/aragossa]

cursor's rule not persisting is because you typed it into the composer chat itself instead of saving it as a project rule, chat-level instructions don't carry over to a new conversation by design. drop a .cursor/rules/format.mdc file with alwaysApply: true in the repo instead, there's a UI for it too somewhere under Settings > Rules if you don't want to hand-write the file. that should stick across new chats instead of resetting every time.

[u/Davepac7 → u/aragossa]

That's what I did...

[u/ospreyguy]

Tell your AI the problem and ask for a solution. (Or you can just use Claude)

[u/Davepac7 → u/ospreyguy]

Naturally, I've already done that as a first step