I've been using Curosor AI to code with Kotlin and React as a UX professional. While it's a very useful IDE, it can be costly during intensive usage. I'm on the pro plan ($20/mo offering 500 fast premium requests/mo) One way to mitigate this is to provide better context to Cursor. Here's what I've been doing to not waste premium requests.
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A sesoned dev explains it in depth in this video:
View: https://youtu.be/puKVeqChsgM?t=45
- Set up '.cursorrules'. Context is more important than the prompt itself very often. When I started using it, I kept ending up in a loop of bugs and it producing code that created unintended outcomes because it could not grasp the context properly or fogot key info. To avoid this use a .cursorrules file in your root folder. Here's Cursor's documention on it: Cursor - Build Software Faster
- Set up .cursorrules file based on existing ones that already work. Here are some: https://cursor.directory
- Track repetitive bugs and instruct inside .cursorrules accordingly to stop them from showing up in the future
P.S.
A sesoned dev explains it in depth in this video:
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