🌶️ Hot take: Fire your entire product team
Replace them with ONE cracked dev watching @PostHog recordings

Their job description:
1. Watch session replays every morning
2. Track revenue leaks, product issues & dropout points
3. Ship quick A/B fixes with Cursor AI

You'll get 100x more done in 1 year

SpecStory (Cursor Extension) - Visual Studio Marketplace Extension for Visual Studio Code - (Cursor Extension) Capture, search and learn from every AI coding journey

New release of the SpecStory Extension for Cursor (0.3.0). It now auto saves your chat and composer history for you. Plus you can use it to easily share your chat history with others.

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From the cursor community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the cursor community

Been experimenting with .cursorrules as well. @gregce.bsky.social recently posted a "crowdsourced" set of best practices (scraped and summarized). The section on "Context Inheritance" lines up exactly with what you're doing. www.reddit.com/r/cursor/com...

Almost every time that I’m waiting those few seconds for Cursor to compose I’m thinking ahead to the next prompt. Sometimes it’s a natural sequence and the flow is smooth. Sometimes it’s a different thread and I don’t have a good place to capture it.

The Rise of the Software Composer: A New Era of Software Creation To be a software composer is to select, arrange and blend pre-existing components, libraries and APIs into a complete and expressive solution.

For Software Composers, as the coding tools get more agentic, we’ll need another AI that we use in parallel for planning while we await the agent’s delivery.

tolacapital.com/2024/11/13/t...

Mobile screenshot of a software composer hub built using srcbook

They weren’t lying. You can actually use srcbook.com AI app builder on mobile. It was a little cramped, with lots of rotating, but still…

SpecStory - Capture, search and learn from every AI coding journey Transform your AI interactions into a living spec. Extensions for Cursor, Windsurf, ChatGPT and Claude for software composers and AI first builders.

For last week's launch of @specstory.com 's Cursor Extension I was able to jump in with the team and ship some stuff. specstory.com/blog/a-ceos-...

Cursor IDE has been a game changer in my ability to build software. I haven't coded professionally in over a decade but it let me get back in the game. For so many product launches, I've been on the sidelines (cheerleader / coach).

Never lose your history

Our team at @specstory.com launched our very first product iteration today.

What is it? An extension for @cursor_ai that allows you to save and share your composer and chat history.

Give it a try at marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa... and let us know what you think!

Systematic use of GenAI cognitively overwhelms many people, Microsoft Research finds A new Microsoft Research study shows that using generative AI systems effectively requires strong metacognitive abilities—our capacity to monitor and control our own thoughts. The researchers found th...

Along these lines, this was a good read from Microsoft Research the-decoder.com/systematic-u...

One standout thought: recognizing when you're in "exploration mode" vs. "thinking and reflection modes"

Let's add just one responsive feature to this. When the screen width goes below typical phone width put the Expand All, Collapse all, Copy as Markdown, and Get Cursor Extension buttons into a hamburger menu instead of displaying them all directly.

Screenshot of Cursor IDE working with my prompt

Our initial @specstory.com web app looked really rough on mobile, so I took a first pass at improving it. Thanks to Cursor+Claude this one shot prompt got things looking much better:

Jake Levirne on Substack I see this as well with the dozens of software composers I’ve been talking to. Quick to get started. Painfully frustrating, if not impossible, to get past the mid-project hurdles. In terms of democra...

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