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NoCursor · 23 May 2025

Cursor has been confidently incorrect repeatedly when discussing databases at my job

sgarland on Hacker News

In the thread “The copilot delusion”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Lack of understanding of MySQL internals and indexing.

Cursor has been confidently incorrect repeatedly when discussing databases at my job. It doesn’t understand how MySQL works, and wants to make terrible indexing decisions because of it. …