Cursor, in use.

Use cases attributed to Cursor, with tools, evidence and human checkpoints.

Cursor implements and revises a hybrid search service

Dodds used Cursor with GPT-5.4 to add lexical retrieval to his semantic search. Production blocking exposed an architectural flaw, so later agent work moved search into a unified Worker.

Software & DevOps

Cursor simplifies an audio pipeline into a one-shot sandbox

kentcdodds.com

Dodds delegated an audio pipeline migration to Cursor. He rejected an initial design that preserved a separate service and used another agent run to make the sandbox part of the existing queue Worker.