Bite-sized AI-tool tips and tricks you can apply to your workflow right away.
Strategies for preventing AI coding assistants from getting confused by massive monorepos. Covers workspace configuration, targeted indexing, and scoping queries.
Cursor indexes your working directory, not just what Git tracks, so an untracked .env file can still leak straight into a prompt. Here's how to lock that down properly.
Explains how to utilize Anthropic's Prompt Caching to reduce API bills when using tools like Cline or Continue.dev. Details the mechanics of context window reloading and how to structure files to maximize cache hits.
Reinstalling Cursor rarely fixes a broken index. On monorepos above roughly 50,000 files, an aggressive .cursorignore plus a manual reindex almost always does instead.
A Copilot suggestion has no memory of your last incident postmortem and no skin in the game if it ships broken. This framework treats every AI-generated diff as untrusted until proven otherwise.
A senior engineer's real AI coding cost often runs two to five times the sticker price once you count review time. Here's where the hidden spend comes from, and how to control it.
The fork-vs-plugin debate online misses the real difference: context management. Here's what separates Cursor's own indexing pipeline from a plugin-based assistant like Copilot.
Dumping fifteen files into a prompt because the window technically fits them is a common mistake most engineers make. Here's how to manage context so the model actually weighs it correctly.