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Cursor: what it is and what people actually do with it
An AI-first code editor whose Agent edits code, searches the codebase, runs terminal commands and can hand work to cloud agents. It also has a terminal CLI. source
I have 30 sightings of Cursor. Its most common jobs: Software Development (13), Productivity (5), Personal Assistant (3).
- Vendor
- Anysphere
- Official site
- cursor.com
- Sightings here
- 30 cases
- Pricing
- See site for current plans.
Software Development · 13 Productivity · 5 Personal Assistant · 3 DevOps & Infra · 3 Email & Inbox · 2 Finance · 1 Sales & Marketing · 1 Automation · 1
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Cases (30)
- Two-hour Slack dashboard from meeting dumps · Cursor · Personal Assistant
A Rippling engineer dumps notes into Slack; a Cursor cron agent every two hours merges them with PRs, Jira and mentions into a clean task dashboard. - Run a scheduled personal assistant that builds a task dashboard · Cursor · Personal Assistant
A published walkthrough shows cursor shows up in a write-up about run a scheduled personal assistant that builds a task dashboard. The linked post… - Automate invoice organizing and monthly invoice emails · Cursor · Finance
From the linked report, the builder opened a folder of invoices with inconsistent names and formats in Cursor and gave instructions. The agent read… - Morning test-coverage agent on merged code · Cursor · Personal Assistant
Every morning a Cursor automation reviews recently merged code, adds tests that match existing conventions, runs them, and opens a PR. - Run a private personal-admin agent in Cursor · Cursor · Email & Inbox
Observed in the wild: the builder runs brainstorming and personal admin in the same Cursor interface but switches constraints on purpose. For… - Build an invitation card website purely by prompting · Cursor · Productivity
Case study takeaway: fabio Zapata gave Cursor a first prompt describing the page's goals, look and technical approach, and let it run console… - Jira issues from Slack threads at Rippling · Cursor · Productivity
Besides the dashboard cron, Rippling engineers trigger Cursor automations that turn Slack threads into Jira issues and Confluence summaries. - Draft personalized outbound, recaps and forecasts for sales · Cursor · Sales & Marketing
From the linked report, chatGTM sits on top of Salesforce, Gong, the data warehouse, LinkedIn and other sources, and pulls context live rather than… - Build a project management tool · Cursor · Productivity
One practitioner notes that cursor covered build a project management tool. from the linked report: powered by a Cursor agent for 24 hours… - Playtest a Godot 4 game · Cursor · Productivity
From the linked report, cursor shows up in a write-up about playtest a Godot 4 game, with figures like 4. The linked post is the primary source for… - Prototype product features as a non-coding PM · Cursor · Software Development
Documented elsewhere: eric Xiao cloned his trip-planner codebase and had Cursor describe it. He saved that description as an AGENTS.md file so new… - Cloud-browser chores driven from an IDE agent · Cursor · Automation
A founder uses Cursor's agent to write scripts that drive a cloud browser for daily web tasks without keeping a laptop on. - Build a personal research wiki from papers and articles · Cursor · Knowledge & Notes
One practitioner notes that the vault folder is opened in both Cursor and Obsidian. Sources go into an immutable raw/ folder, and an AGENTS.md file… - Keep coding agents running autonomously for long stretches · Cursor · Software Development
Documented elsewhere: cursor ran hundreds of concurrent agents on one project. Flat self-coordination through a shared file with locks, then… - Ship an iOS app in 17 days with agents · Cursor · Software Development
Adam Van Lente went from a blank Xcode project to a live iOS app in 17 days with under 24 hours of keyboard time, mostly via Cursor, Claude Code and… - Monitor tasks and open pull requests · Cursor · Productivity
A published walkthrough shows as described in the source: initiates a persistent script that keeps watch on tasks and opens pull requests with… - Process and query email across providers via MCP agents · Cursor · Email & Inbox
Community report: the developer spent six months writing the codebase with help from Cursor, Codex and Claude Code. The system runs in the cloud and… - Group outdated packages by upgrade difficulty · Cursor · Software Development
Before a big dependency upgrade, Kent asked Cursor to list every outdated package grouped into easy, medium and hard buckets. - Slack bug report to Linear ticket and fix · Cursor · Software Development
When a bug lands in Slack, an automation checks for duplicates, opens a Linear issue, investigates the codebase, attempts a fix, and replies… - Coordinate sub-agents to monitor PRs and fix prod bugs · Cursor · Software Development
Observed in the wild: the Cursor Projects coordinator agent received overall project context and intent. On its own it monitored fresh PRs and… - XState migration with looked-up docs · Cursor · Software Development
Kent had Cursor look up XState migration docs, plan the upgrade, and migrate about 200 lines of recorder state-machine code carefully in a fresh… - Surgical Cursor fixes after Claude Code draft · Cursor · Software Development
Drew switches to Cursor with tight prompts when Claude Code stalls on odd codebase patterns, then returns to Claude Code for polish and Playwright… - Security review on every push to main · Cursor · DevOps & Infra
Cursor's own security automation audits diffs after merge to main, skips already-discussed issues, and posts high-risk findings to Slack. - Agentic codeowners that assign reviewers · Cursor · Software Development
An automation classifies PR risk, auto-approves low-risk changes, and assigns up to two reviewers for higher-risk work based on contribution history. - PagerDuty incident to proposed fix PR · Cursor · Software Development
A PagerDuty trigger spins up a Cursor agent that checks Datadog logs and recent code changes, then Slack-posts a summary with a proposed fix PR. - Weekly Slack digest of meaningful repo changes · Cursor · Software Development
A scheduled Cursor agent summarizes major merged PRs, bug fixes, debt work and security updates into a weekly Slack post. - Migrate 180 microservices with dual Cursor agents · Cursor · DevOps & Infra
Brex built generation and validation Cursor agents that draft PRs, fix CI, and run integration tests so one engineer migrated 180 Micronaut services… - Validation agent that stops after three tries · Cursor · DevOps & Infra
Brex's PR validation agent deploys services, runs integration tests, patches failures up to three times, then leaves a human-readable blocker comment. - Upgrade Remix to React Router overnight · Cursor · Software Development
Kent C. Dodds pointed a Cursor background agent at migration docs, deleted old patches, fixed routing against route output, and woke up to a working… - Queue maintenance and bug fixes for Cursor background agents · Cursor · Software Development
From the linked report, zachary Proser authorized Cursor's GitHub app for his organizations. Cursor then cloned the repos into sandboxed containers…
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