I’m fairly new to using Cursor and wanted to start a general discussion around how others are integrating it into their development workflow. From what I’ve seen so far, Cursor offers a clean,coding environment that seems to boost productivity, especially when working on complex projects or debugging code with AI assistance.
I’m curious how others are using Cursor on a day-to-day basis:
Do you use it primarily for pair programming, debugging, or full-time coding?
Have you run into any unique use cases or tricks that improve performance or integration with other tools?
What extensions or custom configurations have worked well for you?
Looking forward to hearing how the community is making the most of Cursor. Would love to swap ideas and maybe learn some new ways to streamline my own coding experience.
A few years of AI coding experience on my side, still coding good part by hand while AI is doing its own thing in parallel.
A few things that are common to do in Cursor:
SpecStory extension (exports automatically the chats so you keep history)
History extension (keeps track of changed files in case something goes wrong)
Definitely check out your programming language, DB and testing extensions
Frequent Git commits (AI can do it too)
Get familiar with the AI models you plan to use as prompts work best when you tailor them for the AI model, otherwise it may do things you wouldnt want.
Setup Cursor Rules for guiding AI behavior and for project/task requirements.
Check out BMAD, RIPER5 or Plan vs Act setups in Cursor forum with the search here for well structured approach in coding with AI.
Some users use MCP for specific access to e.g. DBs, or Browser Dev tools or similar suff thats not built in.
Advanced usage would be with Auto-run where the AI automatically does the changes and uses tools (configurable, allow/denylist), which also requires well structured and prepared tasks.
I recommend reading the Cursor Docu, helps with a lot of the concepts and steps, what goes where. The Guide pages there help too.
i personally use Cursor full time, but obviously i learned that i have to completely guide cursor with good prompts for the best results. Cursor for me is alot more superior compared to other products out there. My only issue is that the 500 requests exhaust literally in like 2 days and for the rest of the month i have to endure the pain of very very slow requests.
That would amount to one full request every 2.5 minutes which seems too quick almost. Can it be that you are running multiple Agents in parallel? Or otherwise the prompt may not be very efficient? how do you use up 500 requests in 2 days
