Cursor Tidied a Script I Was Embarrassed To Open

I used Cursor for this job the way most people do — slowly, and with a lot of backtracking.

Everyone does this the hard way. There's a faster path, and it's not the obvious one.

Step one is the boring part people skip: gather the raw material in one place so the tool isn't guessing.

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

The fix that matters: 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.