Building Cursor with Cursor: Where AI Fails and Human Review Is Needed
AI_Andrew · x · 2026-08-15
Lee Rob shares a practical case of using Cursor to build a /compress feature for the Cursor editor itself, which summarizes chat history to reset the context window.
- Prompt Strategy: Describing the desired behavior and using Cursor's file referencing (e.g., @src/commands/) to pinpoint code locations.
- AI Performance: Cursor generated solid boilerplate code, but struggled with the nuances of context management logic (e.g., handling concurrency or async operations).
- Human Review Required: Developer intervention was necessary to fix logic bugs, especially when touching core system functionality and state management.
Conclusion: AI excels at boilerplate and structural scaffolding, but requires human oversight for complex logic and edge cases.
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