r/CursorAI

Running a coding summer camp in a few weeks. I wanted to use the cursor pro for 30+ K-12 students for my research. The first roadblock: requiring email accounts. Okey. Bought a domain for the camp, set up a business email service. Now I can just create one cursor per email account, pay the subscription fee for each account ($600+), and then be done. Right? Right?

Now apparently, to use an IDE, I need a phone number as well. Can't even start the thing without account creation and verification. So now, I need 30 phone numbers to create the account, to just use an IDE, for which I am paying...

I don't know if I can even run cursor in the camp right now.

It's 4th of July, and what a spectacular way of starting the day.

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https://i.redd.it/xijc5m69817h1.gif

Cursor is great until it improvises on the parts I never told it about — the data layer, where files belong, naming that doesn't match the repo. .cursorrules fixes that, but I never kept mine current, so Cursor kept making those structural calls for me.

Payo interviews you about your project and writes .cursorrules + .cursor/rules/** tailored to it, so Cursor follows your conventions from the first prompt instead of guessing. One-time setup, then you stop re-explaining.

Try it now:

  npx @uge/payo
  # or
  bunx @uge/payo

The same questionnaire also outputs the equivalent for Claude, Copilot, Codex, Windsurf, and Antigravity, if you switch tools — and it covers 25 frameworks / 24 data layers / 4 DBs across TS/JS, Python, Go, and Rust.

Curious what you all keep in .cursorrules — what rule has made the biggest difference for your output? And if you know a stack deeply, I'd really value help adding it or improving the defaults for one already supported — feedback

and PRs welcome.

Repo: https://github.com/uttam-gelot/payo

Site: https://payo.uttamgelot.com

not asking which ai is best , more just when a chat in cursor gets too long or starts going in circles, what's your actual move? do you have a rules file, keep notes somewhere, use commits as checkpoints, or just eat it and start explaining everything again

mainly curious about the case where you didn't catch it early. like the chat's already a mess and you don't fully trust it anymore, not the "i proactively kept it clean" version

I need to vent for a second. Cursor is an incredibly good code editor with AI built-in. That’s exactly why we use it. But it's really frustrating that they are now pushing this empty Agent chat interface as the default startup screen.

I built a custom startup project picker extension (mostly for my ADHD brain to keep track of side projects :D). It opens a webview in the classic editor when no folder is loaded, showing recent workspaces and pinned projects.

Enter Cursor 3 and the new "Glass mode".

Now, Cursor skips the actual editor entirely on startup. My extension is still happily running in the background, but the UI is completely hidden. You literally have to force the editor to open with Shift+Cmd+N just to see your workspace. Who is going to remember to do that every time? If I could remember stuff like that, I wouldn't have needed to build this extension in the first place :D

Hi, I have coded with cursor for almost two years now, and now that I have a job I have a question. So, recently I was hired for like a frontend position in my company and I just fixed some race condition and routing related bugs using cursor because cursor has great codebase analysis skills. The problem for me was yes I fixed it using cursor, but then when i tried to explain what was causing the problem I kinda struggled. It was not like I was a mindless vibe coder or anything(well maybe I am), but even though I kinda understood what the cursor was trying to achieve since I understood react and js , it really didn't help when I tried to explain how the routing process and race conditions happened for that specific project when problematic code involved interactions with multiple js files and React hooks and I really don't know how certain functions referenced what and blah blah. So, my question is is there a functionality that makes me understand or backtrack how a specific problem started just from the final codebase? Like clicking functions leading to where it routes or how it is routed?

Hi everyone,

I was trying to get the Cursor Student discount, but I can't seem to find the option anymore.

Has the student program been discontinued, or is it temporarily unavailable? If it's still active, how did you apply recently?

Would appreciate if anyone who has successfully received the discount in the last few weeks could share their experience.

Thanks!

For projects I was using cursor + Claude code with great success. I switched to Claude as the only tool and the session usage is killing me.

For those on a budget what process and tooling is the best?

Should I go back to cursor or try codex or something else?

I’ve used Cursor a lot while building LoopTroop, and honestly it shaped a big part of how I think about AI coding now.

Cursor is great when I’m moving fast, editing locally, asking questions, or doing focused changes. The pain started showing up on bigger tickets: long sessions, lots of logs, half-fixed retries, context getting messy, and the agent slowly losing the original goal.

So I built LoopTroop around that problem.

https://i.redd.it/x8s6zv1uk89h1.gif

It’s not a Cursor replacement. I still use Cursor directly for smaller work. LoopTroop is more of a local orchestration layer for the kind of ticket where I want structure before the coding agent starts touching files.

The rough flow is:

• scan the repo
• ask an interview round so the spec is not based on guesses
• generate a PRD
• split the work into small “beads”
• run each bead in an isolated git worktree
• retry failed beads with fresh context plus a compact failure note
• show logs, artifacts, diffs, and final PR output for review

https://preview.redd.it/qbex47ivk89h1.jpg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5dc0f800240dbf136aa3cf84b3dc85aa5f1f9449

The part I cared about most is avoiding the “one huge AI chat that slowly rots” pattern. Instead of keeping everything in one growing conversation, LoopTroop stores durable artifacts and rebuilds smaller context for each phase.

For planning, it uses an LLM Council: multiple models draft, vote, refine, and check coverage before execution starts.

https://preview.redd.it/x63hla1xk89h1.jpg?width=1911&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4a249d13a2b4d5fa02524eace6c41fa2074ffcd

For implementation, it currently uses OpenCode as the execution layer, so this is not a Cursor plugin. The idea came from using Cursor a lot and wanting a separate harness for longer, messier tickets where planning, retries, worktrees, and review matter more than speed.

https://preview.redd.it/s3jjlpuzk89h1.jpg?width=1915&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=87511d2f51456eaf0c1c3fcf82bfc1e0f5f2dfb7

It is early alpha, local, open source, and definitely not magic. Also, because it runs agentic coding locally with command execution, I recommend using a VM or sandboxed dev environment.

GitHub: https://github.com/looptroop-ai/LoopTroop

Full 16-minute demo: https://youtu.be/LYiYkooc_iY

Curious how people here handle bigger Cursor tasks today. Do you manually split work into smaller prompts, use rules/MCP, restart sessions often, or just keep one agent thread going until it works?