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Cursor without rules

Yes, you can use Cursor without rules

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Dario Hamidi
Mar 20, 2025
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Is Cursor useful without rules?

One of the questions to which I wanted to find an answer was whether simple prose rules are enough for getting good results out of Cursor.

The promise of simple prose rules is that:

  • they are portable and not tied to a specific tool,

  • they are written in an understandable format and can be edited by hand

To answer this question …

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