I Used Cursor AI for a Week — Here's What Actually Happened

I've been hearing about Cursor for months. Every dev subreddit, every Twitter thread, every "10x your productivity" post — Cursor was always in the conversation. So I decided to actually use it as my only editor for a full week and see what the hype is about. Here's the unfiltered version. Day 1: The Switch Switching from VS Code to Cursor took about five minutes. It's literally a fork of VS Code, so all my extensions, keybindings, and themes carried over. My muscle memory worked from the first second. That alone puts it ahead of every other "AI editor" I've tried — there's no learning curve for the basics. I opened a project, and the first thing Cursor did was index my entire codebase. For my medium-sized project (~2,000 files), this took maybe 30 seconds. I've heard horror stories about large monorepos taking hours, but for a typical project, it was fast. What Blew Me Away Tab completion that reads your mind This is the feature that sold me within the first hour. Cursor's Tab doesn't