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As I continue to work on my side project using Cursor, I continue to wonder what “the work” will be in the future. It’s already a lot different than it was.

I'm a hybrid type – designer first, but have been coding for lots of years and have done development professionally. It's a little bit of both – while I'm sure I could get to the same point *eventually*, the speed that Cursor gives me the confidence to actually build stuff.

I’d be curious to hear more about your first hand experience building stuff. What are you working on?

That’s awesome. Do you also consider yourself a developer? Like is Cursor enabling you to do something couldn’t or is it a speed/effort benefit thing?

Yes! I've found pointing it to documentation and a good .cursorrules file to be key.

But still, stuff that would have taken me weeks to do in my spare time, I get done in minutes to hours. It's wild.

It's the Notes + Whiteboard app of my dreams. It's still early but you can check it out here: https://www.gesso.us/

As far as my experience, it's more mind blowing every day. I describe what I perceive to be complex features and interactions and it just absolutely crushes it most of the time.  Then doing the last mile styling. Sometimes it goes off the rails and I start again.

I like Cursor, and have been using the Paid plan quite a bit to build a few small projects. I feel like I get 80-90% of the way there and then some hallucination happens and my project breaks. I'm learning that it does better with small tasks and very specific prompting

That said, I'm mostly prompting, let's say 80% prompting and 20% coding. You can easily see how this gets to the point where you're 96% prompting and 4% coding with the rate of change in the field.

omg I have never used .cursorrules 😬  ok i might have missed something in the documentation. Thanks for the tip

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