#cursor

48 items tagged #cursor.

GUIDE 2026-05-11

Claude Code vs Cursor: same task, two tools, what actually differs

Run the same multi-file refactor through both tools and the ergonomic gap becomes concrete: Cursor wins on inline completion flow; Claude Code wins on coordinated multi-file changes. The real question is where each fits in your day.

Owner · 8 min #claude-code #cursor

GUIDE 2026-05-11

Cursor BYOK: when bringing your own key actually saves money

Cursor Pro is a flat rate; BYOK is metered. The math only favors BYOK past a specific token crossover point — and the friction cost of managing keys is real.

Owner · 6 min #cursor #byok

GUIDE 2026-05-11

Cursor's codebase index: when to leave it alone and when to nuke and rebuild

Cursor maintains a structured index of your codebase that most AI features draw on. Here's what goes stale, how to spot it, and when to force a full rebuild.

Owner · 5 min #cursor #indexing

GUIDE 2026-05-11

.cursorignore: keeping Cursor out of files that should be untouched

A .cursorignore file at your repo root tells Cursor which files to skip during indexing, Composer, and Tab. Here's what to put in it and why it matters.

Owner · 4 min #cursor #ignore

GUIDE 2026-05-11

Cursor Composer multi-file prompting: getting the right edits across the right files

Composer operates across files simultaneously; getting useful diffs requires deliberate file selection, precise @-references, and a followup loop for the parts that miss.

Owner · 7 min #cursor #composer

GUIDE 2026-05-11

Cursor Notepad: the workspace memory feature people forget exists

Cursor Notepad lets you store reusable text—project conventions, prompt templates, design decisions—inside the editor and reference it from chat with @Notepad. Most people never find it.

Owner · 5 min #cursor #notepad

GUIDE 2026-05-11

When Cursor is offline: the local-only features that still work

Cursor's AI features — Tab, Chat, Composer — all require a network connection. Here's what keeps working offline, and how to set up a local model fallback before you need one.

Owner · 4 min #cursor #offline

GUIDE 2026-05-11

Cursor Privacy mode: what it actually does and what it doesn't

Cursor Privacy mode stops your code from being used for training and stored beyond a request. Here's what that covers, what it doesn't, and where the real gaps are.

Owner · 5 min #cursor #privacy

GUIDE 2026-05-11

Cursor on a Python project: the setup that doesn't fight you

Four configuration steps that stop Cursor from suggesting wrong-version syntax, missing your venv, and ignoring your type hints on Python projects.

Owner · 6 min #cursor #python

GUIDE 2026-05-11

How Cursor Tab learns from your codebase (and why it sometimes doesn't)

Cursor Tab grounds its completions in an index of your repo — open files, recent edits, nearby code. When it suggests the wrong pattern, the index usually hasn't caught up yet.

Owner · 6 min #cursor #tab

CASE STUDY 2026-05-07

Three months of Cursor on a production Rails app: the honest numbers

I tracked task completion times before and after adopting Cursor on a 6-year-old Rails monolith. The results were more nuanced than the marketing suggests.

Owner · 11 min #cursor #rails

NEWS 2026-05-06

Cursor Background Agents go GA: run tasks while you keep coding

Cursor's background agent feature exits beta. Agents can now run terminal commands, edit files, and report back without blocking your main editor session.

Owner · 3 min #cursor #agents

GUIDE 2026-05-01

How to write Cursor prompts that actually work

Most Cursor prompts fail not because the model is bad, but because the request is vague. Here's how to give Cursor enough context to stop guessing.

Owner · 7 min #cursor #prompts

GUIDE 2026-04-30

Copilot Workspace vs Cursor Composer: how the multi-file UX actually differs

Both tools handle multi-file edits. Copilot Workspace is task-shaped; Cursor Composer is conversation-shaped. The difference shapes which tasks each one fits.

Owner · 7 min #copilot #cursor

GUIDE 2026-04-28

Cursor Composer for multi-file features: how to scope a session that works

Composer can produce a coherent 15-file diff or a sprawling mess. The variable is how much you constrain the session before you start typing.

Owner · 8 min #cursor #composer

GUIDE 2026-04-27

Cursor rules for projects with multiple stacks: per-directory .cursorrules

Cursor reads .cursorrules from the project root by default. For repos with a TypeScript frontend and a Python backend, that's the wrong granularity. Here's how to scope rules per directory.

Owner · 5 min #cursor #configuration

GUIDE 2026-04-25

Cursor Rules: making the AI follow your project's actual conventions

Cursor will write code in the average style of its training data. Cursor Rules let you override that with your project's specific conventions, framework choices, and naming standards.

Owner · 8 min #cursor #configuration

GUIDE 2026-04-22

Setting up Cursor for a Rust codebase that respects rust-analyzer

Cursor's defaults conflict with rust-analyzer in three places — completion sources, format-on-save, and inlay hints. Here's the .cursorrules and settings.json that keeps both working.

Owner · 6 min #cursor #rust

CASE STUDY 2026-04-21

Copilot vs Cursor on the same feature: a head-to-head log

I built the same feature — a multi-step form with validation — twice, once in Copilot and once in Cursor. Same model under the hood. Different UX, different output, surprisingly different time-to-done.

Owner · 10 min #cursor #copilot

GUIDE 2026-04-18

Cursor's codebase indexing on a 1M-line repo: tuning .cursorignore and what to expect

Cursor's indexing scales surprisingly well, but a 1M-line repo will hit limits without tuning. Here's the configuration that makes it usable.

Owner · 6 min #cursor #large-codebases

GUIDE 2026-04-15

Cursor Tab vs Cmd+K vs chat: when to use which one

Cursor exposes three different ways to ask the model for help. They have different latencies, contexts, and failure modes. Pick the wrong one and the experience drops noticeably.

Owner · 5 min #cursor #workflow

GUIDE 2026-04-06

Cursor's BugBot for PR review: where it earns its $40/month and where it doesn't

Cursor BugBot reviews PRs automatically. The hit rate on real bugs is real but uneven. Here's where it justifies the cost.

Owner · 5 min #cursor #code-review

GUIDE 2026-04-02

Cursor YOLO mode: when 'auto-accept everything' is reasonable, and when it's not

Cursor's YOLO mode auto-accepts the agent's edits and runs commands without prompting. It's not as reckless as the name suggests, if you set up the safety net first.

Owner · 5 min #cursor #agent-mode

GUIDE 2026-03-29

Cursor in a bun or pnpm monorepo: making the indexer not lose its mind

Cursor's codebase indexer expects npm workspace conventions. Bun and pnpm monorepos work but need configuration to avoid indexing duplicates and stale node_modules.

Owner · 4 min #cursor #monorepo

NEWS 2026-03-28

Cursor adds team-level shared rules and prompt templates

Cursor's latest update adds first-class support for team-shared rules and prompt templates across a workspace. The feature targets the team-fragmentation problem that's grown with AI tooling adoption.

Owner · 4 min #cursor #team

GUIDE 2026-03-27

Cursor with React Server Components: prompts that produce correct boundaries

Cursor often gets RSC vs Client Component boundaries wrong. The boundary matters for hydration, secrets, and bundle size. Here's the prompt structure that fixes it.

Owner · 4 min #cursor #react

CASE STUDY 2026-03-18

Migrating a Django SaaS from views to DRF with Cursor: 80 hours over four weeks

Moving a 5-year-old Django app from class-based views to Django REST Framework. The Cursor part was about 60% of the win; the planning was the rest.

Editor · 9 min #cursor #django

GUIDE 2026-03-15

Cursor on Vue 3 Composition API: prompts and rules that match the framework

Cursor's defaults assume React. For a Vue 3 + Composition API project, a few rules and prompt habits change the output from 'almost right' to 'right first time'.

Owner · 7 min #cursor #vue

NEWS 2026-03-13

Cursor 1.0 ships with built-in observability for AI usage and team analytics

Cursor's 1.0 release adds team-level dashboards showing model usage, request counts, and cost attribution. Important for teams trying to understand actual ROI.

Owner · 4 min #cursor #release

CASE STUDY 2026-03-08

Cursor on a Vue 3 e-commerce build: 6 weeks, 18k lines, what shipped

I built an e-commerce frontend in Vue 3 with Cursor as the primary tool. Here's the breakdown of what Cursor handled cleanly, where it struggled, and what I'd do differently.

Owner · 11 min #cursor #vue

GUIDE 2026-03-06

Using Cursor keyboard-only: bindings that get you off the mouse

Cursor's defaults assume mouse interaction in several places. Customizing 12 keybindings produces a fully keyboard-driven workflow.

Owner · 4 min #cursor #keybindings

CASE STUDY 2026-02-25

Cursor on a Flutter mobile app: Dart support is rougher than expected

Used Cursor for a 4-week Flutter project. The experience was mixed; Dart is a less-trained language and it shows.

Editor · 5 min #cursor #flutter

CASE STUDY 2026-02-22

Cursor on a C++ game engine: where memory ownership trips the AI

Used Cursor for engine work on a small indie game project. C++'s memory model and template metaprogramming exposed clear AI weaknesses.

Editor · 6 min #cursor #cpp

NEWS 2026-02-15

Cursor's Shadow Workspace lets agents experiment without touching your files

Cursor 1.1 adds Shadow Workspace, a feature that runs agent operations in a hidden copy of your project. Implications for safer agent workflows.

Owner · 3 min #cursor #agents

NEWS 2026-02-03

Cursor adds team-shared rules and centralized configuration

Cursor 1.2 lets organizations publish rules to all team members. The configuration drift across team members is finally addressable.

Owner · 3 min #cursor #teams

CASE STUDY 2026-02-01

Cursor across a 5-engineer React Native team: what consistency requires

Five engineers on a React Native project with Cursor. The path from 'everyone uses it differently' to 'team-coherent AI usage' was non-trivial.

Editor · 7 min #cursor #teams

GUIDE 2026-01-31

Debugging Cursor's wrong suggestions: a checklist for when the model is being weird

When Cursor's suggestions are off, the cause is usually one of six things. Here's the checklist that gets you back on track.

Owner · 4 min #cursor #troubleshooting

GUIDE 2026-01-31

Cursor rules for Rust error handling: anyhow vs thiserror, propagating correctly

Cursor's defaults for Rust error handling drift between anyhow and thiserror unpredictably. Explicit rules produce consistent code.

Owner · 4 min #cursor #rust

GUIDE 2026-01-27

Cursor for writing Cypress tests in a monorepo: scoping context for E2E

End-to-end tests have unique context needs. Cursor's defaults don't capture them. Here's the configuration that produces good Cypress tests.

Owner · 4 min #cursor #cypress

CASE STUDY 2026-01-23

Cursor on a 2-week startup MVP: what happens when speed is the only constraint

Built a SaaS MVP solo in 2 weeks using Cursor heavily. Honest assessment of where AI accelerated and where corners were cut.

Editor · 6 min #cursor #startup

NEWS 2026-01-21

Cursor's BugBot adds severity scoring and team rule integration

BugBot updates with severity classifications and the ability to enforce team-specific review rules. Reduces noise; improves signal.

Owner · 3 min #cursor #bugbot

GUIDE 2026-01-11

Cursor's streaming output: when to wait vs. when to interrupt

Cursor streams responses as they generate. Knowing when to interrupt mid-stream improves productivity meaningfully.

Owner · 3 min #cursor #workflow

CASE STUDY 2026-01-05

Cursor on a data validation pipeline: catching data quality bugs

Built a data quality validation system for a small ETL pipeline. Cursor shines for the structured nature of validation logic.

Editor · 5 min #cursor #data-quality

NEWS 2026-01-03

Cursor 1.5 adds multi-window support and per-project AI memory

Cursor's 1.5 release brings two long-requested features: better multi-window workflows and persistent project-level AI memory.

Owner · 3 min #cursor #release

GUIDE 2025-12-29

Cursor with Storybook: generating stories that match your component patterns

Storybook stories are repetitive but high-value. Cursor handles them well with the right setup.

Owner · 3 min #cursor #storybook

CASE STUDY 2025-12-21

Cursor on a localization rollout: i18n across 200 components

Adding internationalization to an existing app. Cursor handled the mechanical work; deciding what to translate was human.

Editor · 4 min #cursor #i18n

GUIDE 2025-12-11

Cursor for vector database work: pgvector, Qdrant, and the patterns that work

Building applications with vector search is increasingly common. Cursor handles the SDK calls; the embeddings strategy is human work.

Owner · 3 min #cursor #vector-db

CASE STUDY 2025-12-09

Migrating a 50k-line codebase to TypeScript strict mode using Cursor

Enabled strict TypeScript on an existing codebase incrementally. Cursor handled most of the type fixes.

Editor · 4 min #cursor #typescript