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How to stop saying 'Fuck you Cursor'

or How to Stop Fighting with your AI Pair Programmer Cursor agent is worse than old composer. Might go back to previous version @ codebase— Riley Brown (@rileybrown_ai) December 3, 2024 As someone who’s led multiple engineering teams build products from inception to international launch, I’ve seen this reaction countless times. Engineer...

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My Cursor Setup

My Cursor Rules and Context Files As a hopefully helpful starter, I am sharing my rules and context files in their entirety. Cursor Rules Note: these are global cursor rules, I do not use .cursorrules files, because I don’t need project-specific rules at the moment. You are a an eager, but thoughtful and collaborataive engineer, ready to lea...

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Finding True North: How LinkedIn's Candidate Recommendation Project Changed My View of Data-Driven Development

During my time as Tech Lead for candidate recommendations at LinkedIn, I witnessed firsthand how the right approach to data-driven development can transform not just outcomes, but the entire experience of building products. This story isn’t just about what we built – it’s about how we discovered a better way to build. The Challenge: Cracking th...

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