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Cursor Origin VS Github
The day GitHub broke for 7 hours, Cursor launched its replacement. Coincidence? Sure. But 35% of merged PRs are now written by AI. Buckle up. On the…
I was solving agent portability at the wrong boundary
Copying the last repo's agent setup into a new one worked at first. It also copied product-specific assumptions. Once I had several active projects,…
The Upgrade That Wasn’t: When ‘Newer’ AI Feels Like a Downgrade
Some fortnights the complaint is the bill. This one it was the product itself. Across the forums where paying customers of the big AI tools compare…
Easily setup Vault for Cursor cloud agents
One of the easiest and most helpful features of Cursor is Cloud Agents. With often 1 click you can have an agent in an ephemeral environment that yo…
SKILL.md is not a compiler
If you use Cursor long enough, you will watch it ignore a rule you wrote down. You add a SKILL.md. You tell it "no explicit any". You maybe add a ho…
Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform
Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code-hosting platform to rival developers' long preferred favorite, GitHub.
SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition
AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.
How to Add Persistent Memory to Cursor with MCP (2026)
Cursor starts every session with amnesia: yesterday's architecture discussion, the migration you agreed not to touch, your preference for pnpm, all…
Cursor Origin — What We Actually Know About Cursor’s New Git Hosting
Cursor just announced Origin — its own code storage and git hosting. // Detect dark theme var iframe = document.getElementById('tweet-20670122208323…
We shipped a one-click 'Add to Cursor' button. The hard part wasn't the button.
My job is getting our product into people's hands. It's built for AI agents, so it has to live where agents pick up their tools — in their catalogs.…
Treat prompts like code: skills, evals, and ship-gate CI for Cursor slash commands
Most Cursor command packs are markdown snippets. You paste a prompt, hope the agent behaves, and when it regresses you shrug and rewrite the paragra…
Cursor, Codex, Claude Code prompts collection
( https://ihatereading.in/cursor-rules ) Hello and welcome to the new blog This blog is originally published on and for ihatereading.in Last month,…
Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing
Cursor says India is now its third-largest market globally and plans to expand local hiring and enterprise sales.
Stop Cursor AI From Writing Broken Code
If you've spent more than a few hours building apps with Cursor or Replit AI, you've probably seen this happen. You ask the AI to build a feature. I…
Three Juejin roundups, three scorecards, no shared bridge
I went down a rabbit hole this morning reading three different late-2025 Juejin roundups side by side, all of which purported to answer what AI to u…
Orchestrating 16 Cursor subagents in a single session — what actually stuck
I did a count that afternoon. From 2pm to 8pm — six hours — I opened 16 subagents in Cursor. Four waves of four each, all running in parallel. Combi…
Twilio MCP: Control SMS, Voice, and Chat from Your AI Workflows
Install guide and config at curatedmcp.com Twilio MCP: Control SMS, Voice, and Chat from Your AI Workflows The official Twilio MCP server bridges th…
Cursor + FFmpeg Micro: Ship Video Features Without Learning FFmpeg
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com You're building a product. Somewhere in the spec, there's a video feature: thumbnail generation, format con…
GLM 5.2 vs Claude Fable 5: agentic coding at a fraction of the cost
GLM 5.2 vs Claude Fable 5: agentic coding at a fraction of the cost I gave GLM 5.2 and Claude Fable 5 the same real job: redesign a project plan and…
AI Coding Tools Benchmark 2026: Cursor vs Copilot vs Windsurf vs Claude Code
I spent two weeks testing Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, and Claude Code on the same set of tasks. Not vibes. Not feature lists. Actual work: bui…
Best AI Coding Tools in 2026: Full Power Rankings
AI coding tools have changed a lot in 2026. A year ago, GitHub Copilot was the obvious choice. Now you have 7+ serious options — and the right one d…
You can index every repo in Cursor. It still can't tell you what breaks.
How to tune Cursor's codebase index for a large monorepo or a multi-repo workspace — and the one question no amount of tuning makes it answer. Open…
cursor automations for housekeeping and hygiene
quick answer cursor automations are a good fit for recurring housekeeping and hygiene tasks that already have a clear definition of done. i currentl…
Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go
Cursor has launched a new mobile app for remote oversight over coding agents.
Cursor AI Explained for Beginners: Rules, Skills, Hooks, MCP, Plugins, Automation & Customization (With Real Examples)
When I first started using Cursor AI , I thought it was just an AI-powered code editor. After spending more time with it, I realized it's much more…
Cursor acquires Continue and gives its users a July 15 export deadline
Cursor has acquired Continue, the open-source AI coding assistant, in a quiet acqui-hire that disables recurring billing and gives existing users un…
This Week in AI: Claude Goes Dark, SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60B
This Week in AI: June 12–18, 2026 Six days. That's how long two of Anthropic's most capable models have been offline because of a single letter from…
How to Migrate from Cursor Rules to Agent Skills
Agent Skills are the open standard ( agentskills.io ) for packaging team-specific instructions that any AI coding tool can discover. Migrating from…
I Built a Search Engine & Internet Portal on Top of WordPress Using PHP and Cursor AI — Is This a Good Practice?
Over the last few months, I've been working on a project called Niriv , a custom WordPress-powered internet portal that goes far beyond a traditiona…