I spent 400+ hours in Cursor, here’s what I learned

[@DavidOndrej]

🚀 Developers, I’m hiring! Apply here: forms.gle/Y8yNSpCapcDPuTXt6 🤖 Wanna start a business with AI Agents? Go here: www.skool.com/new-society

[@VitaliyHayda]

Prompts from video: 1. THE FEWER LINES OF CODE, THE BETTER The fewer lines of code, the better. 2. PROCEED LIKE A SENIOR DEVELOPER Proceed like a senior developer. (Alternate version: Proceed like a 10x engineer.) 3. DO NOT STOP UNTIL COMPLETE Do not stop working on this until you've implemented this feature fully and completely. 4. THREE REASONING PARAGRAPHS Start by writing three reasoning paragraphs analyzing what the error might be. Do not jump to conclusions. 5. ANSWER IN SHORT Answer in short. 6. DO NOT DELETE COMMENTS Do not delete comments. 7. SUMMARY OF CURRENT STATE Before we proceed, I need you to give me a summary of the current state. Summarize what we just did, which files were updated, and what didn’t work. Do not include assumptions or theories-only the facts. 8. UNBIASED 50/50 Before you answer, I want you to write two detailed paragraphs, one for each solution. Do not jump to conclusions or commit to either solution until you have fully considered both. Then tell me which solution is obviously better and why. 9. PROPERLY FORMED SEARCH QUERY Your task is to write a one-paragraph search query as if you were instructing a human researcher. Clearly state what to find and request code snippets or technical details when relevant. 10. START WITH UNCERTAINTY You should start the reasoning paragraph with lots of uncertainty and slowly gain confidence as you think about the item more. 11. BE CAREFUL WITH RED HERRINGS Give me the TL;DR of the search results, but be careful. Often the search results contain dangerous and distracting red herrings. 12. ONLY INCLUDE TRULY NECESSARY STEPS Break this large change into the required steps. Only include the truly necessary steps.

[@qAidleX]

I have over a hundred hours in Cursor and never new some of this. Wow this would have made my life so much easier these last few weeks haha

[@frbleu3541]

“never new some of this” new = knew? :)

[@qAidleX]

@frbleu3541 hahahaha I'm on a phone with a tiny keyboard

[@MikeKing]

Awesome video David, I've spent hundreds of hours in cursor too and learn a lot of those, but you definitely gave me some great tips I hadn't realized yet. VERY NICE!

[@mkkkai]

I got a lot of cursor dev hours and these are super valuable. can't wait to try them. nothing is more annoying then being told "yes you're absolutely right" every time I make a suggestion!

[@DaanMarcus]

for the docs pages / md files. Just ask cursor or windsurf to create a javascripts that scans all dependencies and create a seperate list. In that list you select from which one you want to download the up to date docs. Include that you want a weekly update on the docs to stay updated. Took me 15 minutes to create it without any javascript knowledge.

[@whiskymarko]

Kamo vyborny content toto, si velka inspiracia, vela sa ucim a mam velke vizie co sa s tym da urobit. Mozno niekedy budeme konkurencia :) Good luck and keep it up!

[@agenticmark]

Something you missed David - COMMIT code after each successful change. otherwise you will get lost and so will the AI and your codebase will disintegrate.

[@alikassar]

Mate!! What's going on??? No Plaster on your nose? Did it get healed?? Congrats mate super happy for you.

[@andrea_v8]

Insane you're sharing all this for free, truly a game changer.

[@petebrag]

Yes do more of these. Great stuff!!

[@andydataguy]

Great content! Thanks for sharing your insights

[@mugishapatrick8595]

David never fails to deliver! This will save me countless hours .

[@GIFOYT]

You can actually x5-10 the speed of coding. I did a complete internal tool to make videos on autopilot in 20 days with 10h days composer usage. It could have taken me 6 months to make the same tool myself. But you have to learn how to use it, and set the right rules, as sometimes it can remove fetaures that were already implemented and working.

[@guillaumevandelaar7711]

Do you have videos about you do this?

[@GIFOYT]

@ No, I make minecraft videos to promote my hosting business, I don’t do any videos about coding with AI. But it’s just fullscreening cursor composer, and start asking to do things. Be cautius about what you ask and try to be as specific as possible (however, sometimes I’ve barely described what i wanted, and cursor composer has actually surprised me in a good way). And if it makes mistakes, just tell composer to fix them. Try to think for yourself when debugging, cause maybe composer cant find the solution and spends 1h for debugging that error by itself. For my next internal tool i’ll try to think about the program architecture, designs and al, this, and then explain it all to cursor in the first prompt, i think it can do it pretty well. You should try it too. It’s just having a fullstack under you, and you are the manager telling it what to code

[@Sarielify]

Yes, more videos like this please.

[@IAMTHEMUSK]

The hardest with nowadays developing tech is not get angry against those ai. We will die sooner due to the stress it provides

[@prankster08840]

Thank you bro for sharing this valuable tips! This will 10X my current productivity

[@steffenp1113]

Fantastic value, as always!

[@subashchandra9557]

Bro has 400 hours on Cursor, and doesn't know that the .cursorrules should be in JSON format, which even the CursorFocus app automatically does. Do not take information from people who can't even do their own research. 5 mins on the Cursor forum will tell you json is 100x better than md formatting for the cursor rules. Only the "Rules For AI" section should have the natural language.

[@G4m813R]

Also if you ask cursor to make the .cursorrules file it does it in JSON format. All in all, I found the video very drawn out with, at least for me, no interesting information. I found the entire workflow rather slow and unnecessarily complicated, but I am also way above 400 hours with cursor.

[@cariyaputta]

@@CabbageYe True, XML is the best

[@ZacharyNow]

@@G4m813Rcan you make a video showing us your workflow?

[@HimaLoubi]

The video owner is just an AI agent😂 look at how much word he speak per minute 😅

[@TravisChristopher]

That’s interesting, none of the websites that have .cursorrules for use use json.

[@russabuss]

I got SO much out of this!! Thank you so much for whisperflow. game changer

[@villainesthetic]

Bro cooked here. Thanks David you are one of my fav devbloggers

[@davidroberts1037]

lots of good information. thanks for the video

[@blissweb]

Great. Like the style. Keep it up. 😊❤

[@IN-hw8it6]

👍 Thanks for your work!

[@cryptian8730]

pffff, i dont care this is a lead generation video for your community that I cant pay for, but man, this content is absolutely legendary.

[@kubaD2000]

# CODING GUIDELINES - THE FEWER LINES OF CODE, THE BETTER!!! - Write minimal, efficient code without overengineering - Use short naming conventions - Minimize empty lines between code - Prefer single-line expressions where possible - Use lambda functions for simple operations

[@ywueeee]

17:57, mac has internal speaking tool, no need for external app that gets all your data

[@New-k8s]

Great content! * The fewer lines of code, the better * Proccess like a Senior Developer // 10x engineer * DO NOT STOP WORKING UNTIL ... * Reasoning paragraphs: start by wrting 3 resoning paragraph * do not delete comments * summary of current state: before we proceed, i need you to give me a summary of the current state of the project. format this as 3 concise paragraphs, where you describe what we just did, what did not work, which files were updated/created, what mistakes to avoid, any key insights/lessons we've learned, what problems/errors we are facing, ... and anything else a programmer might need to work productively on this project. write in a conversational yet information tone. * objecive 50/50: BEFORE YOU ANSWER, i want you to write two detailed paragraphs, one arguing for each of these solutions - do not jump to conclusions, seriously consider both approachs then, after you finish, tell me whether one of these soulition is obviously better than the other, and why. * one-paragraph search query let's perform a web search, your task is to write a one-paragraph search query, as if you were telling a human researcher that to find, including all the relevant context. format the paragraph as clear instructsion, commanding the reseacher to find what we're working for. ask for code snippets or technical details when relevant * you should start the resoning paragraph with lots of uncertainly, and slowly gain confidence as you think about the item more. 1. what we are doing 2. tag relevant files 3. how to execute // what not to do 4. context dump 6. repeat core instruction 7. output format --- by AskTube extension

[@unconnected]

I haven't dove deep into cursor like I have windsurf but my prelim gave me a better feeling about windsurf and so I went with it instead. What made you put 400 hours into cursor and not windsurf?

[@skywatch3776]

I think he’s got connections and gets paid to promote Cursor IMO. I like Windsurf, I don’t see a reason to move to cursor for price, and if I need a thinking model I can use GPT-o1 or DeepSeek-R1. After going down an error chasing rabbit hole from letting Sonnet go hog wild with my code for too long thinking “wow this is amazing”, then quickly realizing it’s not as smart as it appeared and it successfully F’d my code bad enough I had to scrap it and revert to original repo, I’ve been using GPT-o1 projects as my home base AI for coding. Now that I can let it watch other UI’s it’s much less constraining. If I could sign in to GPT on Windsurf so I can have my own o1 assistant do the work in Windsurf it would speed things up a tad, but it’s not that hard to copy and paste, and I feel like I actually get to know my code better because I have to implement the changes.

[@jonathanditren7671]

it feels go to know i'm already doing many of the things you mention here., but many new things as well

[@pedrogonzalez3822]

NIiiiice, you spent over 16 days in Cursor

[@macroprotocol]

"Hello can you report an issue with the Cursor team. The login button inside the Cursor app isn't working, and I've had trouble connecting with the team on the forum. Communication with users seems to be lacking as well. Hope this gets addressed soon!

[@anatalelectronics4096]

funny i have also cline in cursor, also as a project launcer so that i can fix cline where needed, they have both pro + con, cursor is a vscode fork and cline the plugin, both have limitations there fore, a diy cli is more powerful for me, these apps are not needed and only slow me down, cli is all we need

[@cariyaputta]

Thanks a lot for the Rules for AI, I'm thinking of applying but I'm mostly writing Go, C, and HTMX, need to horn up my full stack JS skills a bit first.

[@medusasound7396]

awesome video man, i just stared out with building my first app about 2 weeks ago and so far really enjoy it. Your comments on thinking of a MVP put me in a whole new perspective. i was thinking of ideas all the time and had a quite huge product in mind (you could say impossible for someone that doesnt know coding) but when you said to actually just build the core functionality and then things come up from there, that made a loooot of sense. Thanks for this video!

[@unconnected]

Following up from another comment, where are you finding Cursor and AI falls short to the point that you are willing to pay a full stack developer to do the coding ? Are you looking for them to actually spend more of their time coding or are you looking for them to spend more of their time in cursor guiding an AI ?

[@GIFOYT]

@@unconnected Most probably having him guide the AI. A dev with cursor composer as a tool can output what 5 devs could output without cursor composer. I’ve actually thought about paying a dev to help me out dveloping internal tools, or just commercial software, with cursor in the future 🤣

[@nastied]

Well the dev can double check security , stability and basically review.

[@unconnected]

@ Always curious as to what a dev with cursor outputs vs a non-dev with cursor. I know there's obviously a delta between them, probably a big one, just curious how big and in which areas bigger than others

[@okoiful]

Thanks brother.

[@georgezorbas9036]

What we need is a video if we can use the Codegate with Cursor AI or VSCode (+R1/Claude etc) so to protect the code leaking!!!! Do you have any easy set up ???

[@CabbageYe]

You should add chapters to long videos like this video bro.

[@skywatch3776]

Yeah KZbin will do that for you automatically too if you check the box. May not be perfect, but you can edit time stamps.

[@AGiPublishing]

Incredible depth and insight into optimizing Cursor for development workflows-thank you for sharing your 400+ hours of expertise! 🚀 Tools like Cursor and thoughtful prompting aren't just about efficiency but represent a step toward systemic transformation in how we approach coding and innovation. This aligns with the Healing Code-a framework emphasizing transparency, fairness, and accountability. By embedding ethical principles into our workflows, whether through AI tools or human decision-making, we can create a future that prioritizes not just efficiency but systemic healing and equity for all. ✨ For developers diving into this, think beyond the immediate tools and features. How can we integrate principles like the Healing Code into our work, ensuring our systems serve humanity while respecting ethical boundaries? Amazing work-looking forward to seeing how your insights continue to shape our collective future! 🌍💻

[@bennguyen1313]

Any thoughts how Bytedance's Trae compares to Cursor (or any of the others Windsurf , Aide IDE, codeium , Pair, etc)? For example, my goal is to create an Android Augmented-Reality app (Flutter/ArCore, Vuforia?) Or even something that can just analyze a set of source files (c, dart, etc) , and describe how the existing code works. BTW, Rob Shocks has a good video on Cursor and using something called "replit"

[@olabassey3142]

This video is incredible

[@sebastianredondo]

Great content!! I postulated to your job opportunity. I my vision, I used Cursor for 4 months and sucks in comparison with Visual Studio + Cline plugin, obviously with antropic models

[@christbearer6003]

I need to know how to be a coder! I don't know yet what this is, I'll "Perplexity" it and then spend the next 6 hours on this video.

[@tolga5742]

Thank you

[@quantumspark343]

superintelligence is coming

[@ThereYouAreT1]

David, or anyone else who can help, upon trying to sign in this message was seen: "Can‘t verify the user is human. Please try again". The email verification code was received. The email was verified. The application was downloaded. But still the sign is it not working, with or without vpn. I have tried Edge, Chrome, Firefox...still the same obstacle. Please help with how to proceed

[@MuratKeremOzcan]

It seems Windsurf is more hassle-free

[@felipevaldes7679]

maybe by asking for short code, we are asking the ai to think less,won't it needs more tokens to develop its thoughts fully?

[@tfozo]

Can I use the R1 deepseek model embedded instead of sonet

[@acharafranklyn5167]

yes you can cursor just added deepseek however is for pro users

[@SirThomasR]

Have you noticed cursor loves to constantly change your AI models to older versions? Especially when using the newer Gemini exp models

[@anatalelectronics4096]

and how both constantly remove code, both should commit every change, cline has snapshot rollback but if you are too late it can totally mess up your codebase

[@TeeeJayy_]

thats built in from cursor for cost saving purposes

[@SirThomasR]

@ is there a way to turn that feature off in the settings?

[@Filipcorobivblenderi]

Budem jeden z lepsich kandidatov. Mam 26 a informatiku som nestudoval, ale vdaka ai som sa dastal tak daleko, ze teraz ucim angular na strednej. Kodim rust, nextjs, angular, kedysi na zaciatkoch fastapi.

[@acharafranklyn5167]

who was able to download the prompts please share

[@anwhelan]

More vids like this? Oh yes!!👍 🎉❤

[@moodmaker2796]

Create a current state file and create one with every git commit?

[@kubaD2000]

Very helpful

[@Livinghighandwise]

I'm struggling to see the benefit of using Cursor to build AI agents as opposed to just using C# or Python? You already need a solid understanding or scripting/programming to use Cursor, so why not just use Visual Studio or IDLE?

[@OhMyDroid]

try Void, open source alternative of Cursor

[@puremajik]

Really great! More of these videos. Also do you think windsurf is able to make changes more effectively with a complex codebase or is cursor the better one ?

[@language-qq8xv]

this is really helpful

[@puremajik]

Do you find that TFD test first development has a higher performance over baseline with cursor ?

[@shishirkumarsky]

What tech stack you are hiring for, I know few very senior developers who will like to join?

[@agenticmark]

the AI should be your student and your teacher, not your employee. always be learning. if you are serious in becoming a good coder, have the AI teach you LISP. Not to use day to day, but nothing will make you a better coder than LISP.

[@florentgironde7279]

what about windsurf?

[@timsell8751]

COMMENTS! Holy hell that's helpful - Thanks!!!

[@isaacsenetexido8180]

To be very honest, I do not comment much on the internet nowadays. But it's incredible how much you're giving out to your audience for free. Thank you for doing that, as you're probably paving the way for future entrepreneurs and newcomers. It's thanks to people like you and your channels that AI will probably expand within society - you're a key agent in this early adoption era. Congratulations David

[@juanbetancourt5106]

I paid for a Cursor AI course, and I wish my tutor knew at least half as much as you; btw you only miss the point of commit changes frequently with git because cursor will eventually break your code. Thank you, man.

[@BillyGlyde108]

How much codeing do i need to use Cursor? (i have zero). Does your course teach someone from zero knowledge, theres so many blah type courses that waste ya cash.

[@F.E.M.T.O]

david and goliath 😭😭

[@paternosternicolo]

Why dont you put everything in .cursorrules?

[@ywueeee]

please add chapters

[@m_g_tek5525]

This was great. I will try to implement some of your tipps in my workflow. Thank you very much for this video

[@windian6663]

i see reason why people will desire to have microchip connected to their brain.

[@CabbageYe]

Bro you don't need front dev you can just use cursor or windsurf

[@boi-is-boi]

Bro literally needs full stack dev and also making videos about cursor

[@solaawodiya7360]

😂😂😂

[@a.nkitsingh]

🦛 crisy (Hypocrisy)

[@tech_curious4985]

😂😂😂😂

[@onangarodney7746]

You forgot the part where he built his app in 2 months completely alone while producing content like crazy and without being a senior developer himself?

[@boredbytrash]

You dumb? Building an app is lots of work. Two people definitely more productive. 2x extremely good engineers empowered by AI can have huge output

[@tonyf6783]

goated

[@jsward17]

11:50 trying to? Just did.

[@razorbackroar]

Fell asleep

[@leytonwise]

first and lets gooo, I love cursor.

[@wisebuxsky2767]

Your New Society School training seems like a waste of time. You’re creating videos for professionals who already understand AI agents and don’t need basic explanations. It feels like you’re just selling dreams with these training videos that lack real value.