5x Your Cursor AI Coding Quality With These Pro Tips

[@YifanBTH]

Cursor has so many amazing features that I just keep discovering new ones the more I use it. If you do want me to share more about the tools that I've used during this video, comment below. I'll make sure to add that to my to-do list for future videos. Happy Shipping!

[@dawid_dahl]

This is starting to become my favorite channel for Cursor/AI dev videos! 🤩👏🏻 I’m also a working developer so this kind of actual stuff is great. A Cursor-dev adding *actual tests* to assure the code performs according to specification, feels like a light breeze on a hot summer’s day. 😍 Keep up the AI-some work!

[@YifanBTH]

Such kind words! I must keep up the good work.

[@Got_It_From_Ebay]

Another great video, man! I like seeing how people use Cursor for actual feature building and real world type uses vs the "how to build some stupid simple app with Cursor" that everyone else seems to be cranking out. I'm going to use the whole "breaking a feature down into actionable steps with AI and feeding those steps back into the AI" thing on the project I'm working on. 👍

[@YifanBTH]

Glad you feel that way. That's what I thought we were missing on KZbin so wanted to add some different perspective.

[@sensenerd7740]

Keep creating best practice content for Cursor.

[@YifanBTH]

Already in the works!

[@sooooorunnnnndfac9wsl]

Nice one! Keep up the good work Yifan

[@loombra01]

Great content! Can you make a video on using Cursor for Test (creating test cases, running the tests)? I can’t find any video on that?

[@YifanBTH]

That's one of the ideas I've got in the pipeline. I'll add your vote to it.

[@loombra01]

@@YifanBTH :)

[@yurijmikhassiak7342]

Another thing is working with actual DB like supabase. In most of my cases and what I see online, you have 5x more bugs when AI starts incorporating backend and DB. It's interesting if we can add rules and docs to avoid most of those mistakes.

[@yurijmikhassiak7342]

Also, what is easiest for AI in terms of DB integration. I tried Refine + Hasura. It is hard to move fast with it.

[@YifanBTH]

@@yurijmikhassiak7342 i've been using it with Knex.js without big issues (though my schema is small atm). think the key is to make sure that AI gets given the model / schema definition in the context as well as the documentation. Think this is probably another full video in itself.

[@ContentVibeio]

Can you share you prompt for make smaller steps please. Great channel Subscribed

[@YifanBTH]

Here's the example I used in the video: In order to make the AI work better, I want you to break down my feature implementations into smaller and manageable steps (separate prompts) that are easy to test, easy to validate that I can commit working code using Git. For the following feature, help me work on this breakdown and give me the individual prompts that I can give to the AI for each bit of the implementation, one by one.

[@Yotrek]

@@YifanBTHI think the pain point OP is referencing is KZbin is great for discoverability [ of your channel] but not great for following your steps and learning to code using AI. Maybe you could use AI to convert your videos into .md/stackoverflow type answers so viewers can learn best practices.

[@hausplayer]

my biggest problem with cursor right now is that it doesnt know a single thing about the project when asking him the stuff. i have to tell him every single thing that has been done for it to work well

[@YifanBTH]

There are two things that you can leverage here to automatically shove in context: - @codebase - let Cursor figure out all of the code context it needs to include given your current chat or composer query - .cursorrules file at the project root - context that gets shove into every single one of the AI queries.

[@j0hnc0nn0r-sec]

The @codebase directive eats up your calls quickly. I’ve used cursor for 2mo now. The tab thing gets in the way a lot. I think aider+cline+new gh copilot are a much better combo and more bang for your buck. Great video though. I will try your techniques before canceling cursor

[@hausplayer]

@@YifanBTH thank you, going to try it

[@hausplayer]

@@j0hnc0nn0r-sec you paying for cursor? cant you just create a new email and use the 200 premium responses every time?

[@tradingwithwill7214]

I find all these options confusing adding reference to docs, codebase, current code file, URLs to documentation, notepads, etc.

[@YifanBTH]

they definitely don't make it easy, atm ai are still just tools and still requires expertise to leverage them well.

[@Daed2001]

Can you share your cursor rules

[@YifanBTH]

I use this template for and added project context to it. cursor.directory/nextjs-react-typescript-cursor-rules

[@iLOGICNOTE]

哈哈. 厉害 .我要分享给更多英语基础不好的同学.

[@YifanBTH]

感谢支持！我是不是以后得做个中文配音版本了😂

[@iLOGICNOTE]

@@YifanBTH 那样就不能一次听力，两样学习了。我个人就喜欢目前这样的状态，超轻松，超阳光，超和气。

[@YifanBTH]

@@iLOGICNOTE 完美！感谢支持

[@wonderfulcxm]

这不是艾伦吗？ 开心麻花开除了吗，现在也改行写代码了吗😂

[@YifanBTH]

这年头喜剧不容易做，还是敲代码简单点😂

[@SamiSabirIdrissi]

Yo Send us that sample .cursorrules file

[@YifanBTH]

You can find lots of templates here: cursor.directory/ You can also checkout my other Cursor video that talks about it in more detail: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqauh5ineM2mna8