Cursor Explained a Bug I'd Been Staring At for an Hour

I used Cursor the way most people first try it — slowly, and with a lot of backtracking.

I kept breaking this task by overthinking it. Here's the order that finally worked.

Step one is the boring part people skip: write down the exact output you want before you open the tool.

Then let Cursor do the draft, but watch it can slip a bug past you that you must catch.

The fix that mattered: check the one fact you'd be embarrassed to get wrong

What changed: edits your real codebase, not just snippets Now it's a ten-minute job I don't dread.

Don't expect it to be fire-and-forget. The tool handles the volume; you handle the judgment. That split is the whole trick.