What's actually in a good .cursorrules file? I built 10 of them — here's what I learned
Ahmed Mustafa
description: Most .cursorrules files are either too vague to help or too rigid to be useful. Here's what I found actually works after building rules for 10 different stacks. tags: cursor,ai,webdev,productivity I've spent a lot of time reading other people's .cursorrules files. Some are fantastic. Most are not. Not because the authors didn't try — but because there's a gap between what feels like a good instruction and what actually changes how Cursor behaves. After building 10 rules files from s