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How I write code using Cursor

A personal review of Cursor, an LLM-powered coding tool.

A few months into using Cursor as my daily driver for both personal and work projects, I have some observations to share about whether this is a "need-to-have" tool or just a passing fad, as well as strategies to get the most benefit quickly which may help you if you'd like to trial it. Composer: This is yet another chat-based interface specifically meant for larger cross-codebase refactors, generating diffs for multiple files that you can page through and approve, also using a foundation model such as GPT or Claude. The chat sidebar is opened with Ctrl+L/Cmd+L, and gives more real estate for a multi-turn conversation, though one pet peeve I have with the LLM models I've tested so far is they will always return code first, rather than ask for clarification if there is any ambiguity.

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