Backend team lead & architect with 10+ years experience, full‑stack engineer, sharing insights and solo development practice.
While AI tools like Cursor, ChatGPT, and DeepSeek dramatically speed up code generation, documentation, and problem solving, the author reflects on how this reliance reshapes developers' thinking, learning habits, and core skills, offering practical strategies to balance efficiency with deep understanding.
This guide walks you through uninstalling previous IntelliJ IDEA versions, installing the JetBrains Junie AI coding assistant on IDEA 2025.1, configuring the plugin, exploring its advanced features, and applying it to real front‑end and back‑end projects, while also covering pricing and usage tips.
This guide shares a systematic, experience‑driven approach to leveraging Cursor’s AI capabilities—from project planning and codebase structuring to custom AI rules, Notepad management, version‑control integration, and advanced workflow automation—helping teams boost development speed while maintaining code quality.
This article outlines a three‑layer architecture for enterprise‑level Cursor Rules, explains common, language‑specific, and framework‑specific rule files, provides configuration examples for TypeScript and React, and offers step‑by‑step guidance, templates, and solutions to common adoption challenges.
This guide walks you through setting up Cursor, an AI‑enhanced VS Code‑based editor, on macOS and configuring full development environments for Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, and Java, including essential tools, virtual environments, plugins, and VS Code settings to boost productivity.
Learn step‑by‑step how to set up a stable, high‑efficiency local text‑to‑image generation service using the Flux model series on Alibaba Cloud’s Bailen platform, integrate it with Cursor IDE’s MCP tool, configure environments, manage API keys, and run the service with sample code and results.
This guide explains why using Figma design files with Cursor AI yields more accurate, collaborative, and scalable front‑end code generation, walks through preparing the Figma API key, configuring the MCP service, step‑by‑step conversion workflows, advanced prompting tips, integration strategies, and troubleshooting common issues.
This article explains what the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is, lists popular MCP service marketplaces, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for adding global or project‑level MCP servers in Cursor, including JSON configuration, verification, usage examples, tips, and troubleshooting.
This article provides an in‑depth technical overview of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), explaining its core concepts, client‑server architecture, communication layers, key benefits such as uniformity and security, and a wide range of real‑world application scenarios from code collaboration to third‑party API integration.
This guide walks through setting up the MCP protocol on macOS, configuring a server, installing Bun, linking Cursor 0.47+ with Figma, importing the plugin manifest, enabling MCP in Cursor, and using prompt templates to automatically generate high‑quality iOS fitness app designs, complete with screenshots and practical tips.
