coding is so weird for me now. what do you all do during the 1+ minutes that the cursor agent is working? . coding used to be locking in for hours typing and thinking constantly with no awkward waiting unless you were building.

how do i get cursor to create more memories?. it's been enabled for a while now and has only made one memory. do i have to tell it to save something as a memory?

does anyone use manual mode?. what's it good for??

writing cold outreach that hits is simpler than you think. it’s about the person reading it thinking: damn, this is for me. if your message sounds like it could go to anyone, it goes to no one.

im building an ai agent company solo. the biggest constraint is actually the unplanned time it takes to get ai agents to do what you want them to do. getting it to "work" takes 20% of the time, getting it to work well takes 80%.

being part of BIP should mean using each others products. what indie hackers product do you use instead of the popular alternative?.

i use custom modes for workflows. i define the workflow in the prompt for that custom mode. run it with one word like "go"

trick i haven’t cracked yet:.how to plan a week and not lie to myself about how much i’ll get done. i always always always overestimate how much i will get done.

99% of failed cold outreach comes down to one of these:. 1. You’re blasting the wrong crowd (prospecting).2. The message could be for anyone (messaging).3. You’re not doing enough reps (volume). Get all 3 right. It’s math and craft.

cursor just deleted my whole database. it ran a script in the repo that was used to seed the database a long time ago, that script wipes the database and writes dummy data to it. fortunately with neon it takes 2 seconds to restore the db to a point in time, but still i was.

even though i know i probably don't need it, i always get fomo and choose opus over sonnet

im getting some traffic from hugging face to @arxivexplained. im pulling the trending papers off hugging face for the day, building the arxivexplained breakdown for that paper and then posting a link to it in the comments

messaging in cold outreach is like seasoning in cooking. if it’s bland or generic, nobody’s interested. but get the right blend, and suddenly people notice your dish. rewrite your pitch until it feels made just for them, not everyone.

i want ai agents to become the target for ads so we can offload all of the cognitive load from ads onto machines.

every saas does not need a desktop app. i prefer to use the web.

if you haven’t interviewed soham your startup is ngmi.

cursor web agents make side projects way more possible. im primarily using web agents to push my side projects like @arxivexplained forward

built a slack integration for filtyr, it was a lot of fun, and really cool to be able to talk to agents directly in slack

ugh i got carried away again

curious, have you used cursor background agents?.

claude just quoted me $20-$30k for a feature 😂