I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts

Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by siquick on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @04:32AM (#43340980)

Cursor in agent mode + Sonnet 3.7 love nothing better than rewriting half your codebase to fix one small bug in a component.

I've stopped using agent unless its for a POC where I just want to test an assumption. Applying each step takes a bit more time but means less rogue behaviour and better long term results IME.

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by krets on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @04:39AM (#43341015)

Sounds like a human colleague of mine

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by worldsayshi on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @04:34AM (#43340995)

> love nothing better than rewriting half your codebase to fix one small bug in a component

Relatable though.

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by MarcelOlsz on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @04:38AM (#43341009)

Reminds me of my old co-worker who rewrote our code to be 10x faster but 100x more unreadable. AI agent code is often the worst of both of those worlds. I'm going to give [0] this guy's strategy a shot.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEhvwYkI-og

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by WA on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @05:40AM (#43341332)

If you stopped using agent mode, why use Cursor at all and not a simple plugin for VSCode? Or is there something else that Cursor can do, but a VSCode plugin can't?

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