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NoCursor · 15 Mar 2025

recently I spent half a day pulling my hair debugging some cursor-generated frontend code just to find out the issue was buried in some... obscure experimental CSS properties which broke a default button behavior across all major browsers

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In the thread “I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Subtle bugs in generated CSS broke default button behavior.

> And it is hard to spot the mistakes because they can be quite subtle aw yeah; recently I spent half a day pulling my hair debugging some cursor-generated frontend code just to find out the issue was buried in some... obscure experimental CSS properties which broke a default button behavior across all major browsers (not even making this up). Velocity goes up because you produce _so much code so quickly_, most of which seems to be working; managers are happy, developers are happy, people picking up the slack - not so much. …