How I Use Cursor

I need to get something off my chest. Before my interview @cursor_ai, I had never actually used Cursor.

At Meta, Claude Code was explosively taking off. I even paid for a personal $200 a month plan for my side projects. I loved how simple it was, and how quickly I could feel productive. The sticking point for me was in developing my own set of skills that turned cc into almost anything I wanted. I even started developing my own agent orchestrator tool on top of it.

During my onsite interview, I used Cursor over the course of 2 days, using it to build the interview project. This was before Cursor 3's release, so I was using the Editor Window. I've been using vscode for so many years at this point that most of the keyboard shortcuts were still in my context window, so getting back on the IDE was not too difficult. I can't lie though. During the first hour or two I was certainly missing the cli. Clicking on things felt almost barbaric. But there were a few things that really stood out to me.

First, the models I was used to at the t...