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I too use Cursor as my primary IDE for a variety of projects. This will sound cliche in the midst of the current AI hype, but the most critical component of getting good results with Cursor is properly managing the context and conversation length.

With large projects, I've found that a good baseline is about 300-500 lines of output, and around 12 500 line files as input. Inside those limits, Cursor seems to do pretty well, but if you overstuff the context window (even within the supposedly supported limits) Claude Sonnet 3.5 tends to forget important attributes of the input.

Another critical component is to keep conversations short. Don't reuse the same conversation for more than one task, and try to engineer prompts to minimize the amount/size of edits.

I definitely agree that Cursor isn't a silver bullet, but it's one of the best tools I've found for bootstrapping large projects as a solo dev.