Maximizing Cursor AI – What’s Your Best Workflow Hack?

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Score: 134 | Author: AIAppHacker | Subreddit: r/cursor
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February 15, 2025

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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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