Cursor is one of those tools that seems “nice” until you realize it can completely change how you work — if you actually learn its hidden commands, rules and other hidden features. Over the past 2 years, I’ve used Cursor as my main editor for real production work: onboarding new devs, refactoring ugly legacy repos, and working on full features and bug fixes.
The amount of actual MANUL code lines Ive written in the past year is less than 100.

This talk is a practical, no-fluff tour of Cursor’s most useful commands, the weird edge cases, when we change models for different tasks, and the little prompts that make a big difference when you’re deep in the zone. Think of it as “things I wish someone told me before I started yelling at my AI assistant.”

Outline:
• My daily workflow: refactors, context jumping, debugging, onboarding
• The commands that save hours — and the ones that waste them
• Advanced commands , Spec-Kit
• Common pitfalls, fixes, and a few command recipes that actually work