5 Cursor AI Pro Tips

Author(s): Serj Smorodinsky

Originally published on Towards AI.

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This is a power tool that lets you describe what you want and get it. What’s special about it? Why not continue using web based code assistance? Or just use a co-pilot?

Cursor AI allows you to stay within the IDE’s without ever wanting to leave.

It lets you choose the context you need, without copy pasting. It knows your whole project and understands its structure. It manipulates the files in an iterative way letting you reject and apply the changes visually by showing a diff (similar to code diff tools). Web based flow is great for quick patches but working in Cursor AI does feel like working with another person, for better and worse.

In the following blog I showcase 5 examples of how I am using it in my flow:

Staying in control by providing a specManipulating non-code files (.csvs, .txt). Bonus for data scientistsAsk to create tests even… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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