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NoCursor, Claude · 13 Mar 2025

Cursor and Claude constantly was losing focus, refactoring services without taking care of modules/imports at all and generally making things much worse

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In the thread “Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it”

Got in the way: Losing focus on modules/imports during refactor; prompt engineering failed.

… Find all files where module was imported, import the service itself Cursor and Claude constantly was losing focus, refactoring services without taking care of modules/imports at all and generally making things much worse no matter how hard "prompt engineering" I tried. I gave up and made a Jira task for a junior developer instead.