Cursor/Windsurf has 3 major issues: 1. AI hallucinations 2. Loop of...
CJ Zafir@cjzafir
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Feb 24, 2025
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Cursor/Windsurf has 3 major issues:
1. AI hallucinations
2. Loop of errors
3. Context awareness
To fix these core issues we need to build a strong {Context Boundary} around AI.
Here's how you can fix your AI coding workflow : 🧵
1. AI hallucinations
2. Loop of errors
3. Context awareness
To fix these core issues we need to build a strong {Context Boundary} around AI.
Here's how you can fix your AI coding workflow : 🧵
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Cursor and Windsurf built around predictive models like Claude Sonnet 3.5 and GPT4o.
These models can only think about 1 possibility and that 1 possible step can be wrong 9/10 times.
We need to make sure that we don't let these models predict their next steps.
These models can only think about 1 possibility and that 1 possible step can be wrong 9/10 times.
We need to make sure that we don't let these models predict their next steps.
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We AI models plan! they mess up.
We need to utilize AI coding models as Implementation engine.
We need to provide them detailed plan in the form of docs.
Documents include:
- PRD
- App Flow Doc
- Tech Stack Doc
- Frontent Guidelines
- Backend Structure Doc
- cursorrules/windsurfrules
and any other docs you might find useful.
We need to utilize AI coding models as Implementation engine.
We need to provide them detailed plan in the form of docs.
Documents include:
- PRD
- App Flow Doc
- Tech Stack Doc
- Frontent Guidelines
- Backend Structure Doc
- cursorrules/windsurfrules
and any other docs you might find useful.
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I've written a detailed thread on how you can generate coding documents with ChatGPT/@CodeGuidedev
x.com/cj_zZZz/status…
x.com/cj_zZZz/status…
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Once you attach these documents to Cursor/Windsurf in the root directory "instructions" folder.
Now you formed a boundary around AI and it will reference these docs to update its context throughout.
To make it air tight also provide detailed Implementation plan.
Now you formed a boundary around AI and it will reference these docs to update its context throughout.
To make it air tight also provide detailed Implementation plan.
CJ Zafir@cjzafir
o3-mini 1-shoted the 40 Step Coding Plan for Cursor.
This is huge!
Coding models struggle to plan the coding workflow in Cursor/Windsurf.
It is solved now.
We already implemented it in @CodeGuidedev
Enjoy.
This is huge!
Coding models struggle to plan the coding workflow in Cursor/Windsurf.
It is solved now.
We already implemented it in @CodeGuidedev
Enjoy.
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Implementation plan will force AI to not plan its own next step and just implement the planned step.
By doing this you're using AI just as a Developer that can execute code from text instructions.
AI coding = {Project Documentation (Context)} + {Step by Step Instructions (Plan)}
By doing this you're using AI just as a Developer that can execute code from text instructions.
AI coding = {Project Documentation (Context)} + {Step by Step Instructions (Plan)}
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The quality of docs generated by ChatGPT is not so good.
I've built 35+ projects with AI code and to fix the project documentation problem I built @CodeGuidedev
I use a mix of AI models:
o3-mini
GPT4o
Sonnet 3.5
You can follow simple 5 steps and download docs in .md format.
I've built 35+ projects with AI code and to fix the project documentation problem I built @CodeGuidedev
I use a mix of AI models:
o3-mini
GPT4o
Sonnet 3.5
You can follow simple 5 steps and download docs in .md format.
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