Maximizing Cursor AI – What’s Your Best Workflow Hack?
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Score: 134 | Author: AIAppHacker | Subreddit: r/cursor
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I’ve been using the Cursor pro plan for close to 4 months now. I’m constantly trying out new ways to optimize my workflow to write code easier/faster.
These have worked for me:
- Optimizing
.cursorrules
by having the agent “self-improve” the rules after a coding session. - Using debug statements liberally to help the agent find issues
- I ask it to start every reply with a random animal emoji 🦊. If I no longer see the emoji then I know it’s lost context
Wins:
- The self-improvement does seem to help to a point
- I am pretty hard core about starting new sessions an that helps a lot
- Debug statements do help it fix issues. Without them it tends to spin out.
Losses:
- Agent mode spins out when working on less popular tech (not js or react).
- Firebase functions written in typescript
- SwiftUI code
- Svelte 5
- Forgetting to use a
.cursorrules
file or the new rules/* in a project
So I’m super curious… what’s been your biggest challenge using Cursor or other AI coding assistants? How have you worked around that challenge?
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