Zhu: Cursor fails without explicit context on project file structures
Jason Zhu · Essential AI Coding Fundamentals I wish I knew sooner (ChatGPT, Cursor AI, v0) · Oct 11, 2024 · at 10:00
Jason Zhu explains why developers should feed file tree context into Cursor when building applications.
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“Quite often I found that one reason cursor often fail is because it has no idea about how the file project structure. So it just create a file in the wrong place, wrong dependency.”
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