I wanna share some useful Cursor insights with you. I was having error after error trying to create a new field under my users table (postgres). After 20 minutes and a half dozen failed attempts, I checked the docs Postgres | Documentation | Payload and one prompt later, it all worked. New field wa…

@jjaimealeman Hi Jaime, thanks for this. Would you be able to share you .cursorrules file? It is always nice to see how other people are doing things. If there is private info and you cannot share, I will also understand.

giving it the good ol’ ’ and what did we learn, is there anything you would like to add to our rules to do better next time ’ proved quite fruitful

Sure thing amigo, all 220 lines here. https://gist.github.com/jjaimealeman/937ea3bf15225a7135e665cce29c8ae6 .cursorrules { "rules": { "project_tracking": { "description": "Project Tracking and Goal Alignment", "enabled": true, "rules": [ { "des…

Thanks for sharing this. Are you using a tool or a certain approach to generate this JSON? My rules file is just MD and I’m curious about the advantages of this structure.

This has become my new favorite prompt: [Screenshot 2025-01-05 at 1.37.35 PM]

:rofl: I guess you missed the whole point amigo. I use Cursor itself to rewrite its .cursorrules file [image] s

I’d be interested to see what other folks’ Agents spit out whe the following is asked: [image] Tip: Within a Composer, request synopsis of thread/topics/discussions/reasearch How To [image] I use a project ‘ScratchPad’ which is cursor/scratchpad and this is w…

Funnily enough, I had a “chat” with Cursor about which format it preferred, and it said the .json, while well-structured, was not as easy to follow as the markdown file. It said the markdown, being in a natural language, was easier to read and comprehend. I copied my markdown formatted cursorrules …

lol i use ai so it reads all the files and generates the most accurate .cursorrules for the project

You can tell Cursor to update its .cursorrules for you

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I’d be interested to see what other folks’ Agents spit out whe the following is asked:

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You can tell Cursor to update its .cursorrules for you

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