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

Score: 134 | Author: AIAppHacker | Subreddit: r/cursor

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by AIAppHacker February 15, 2025 View on Reddit → 134 points 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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