First Cursor-y Glance
Recently tried Cursor for the first time! This was also my first time working with agentic ai and it was a pretty impressive experience. I gave it a try cause I wanted to quickly stand up a sort of developer portfolio site. Instead of spending a bunch of time working on a website to display projects I’m working on, I had Cursor build it for me so I could get back to brainstorming side projects. I kind of like the mindset of agentic ai can build the easy stuff so I can work on actual problems. I’m not mulling over how I should style another custom nav bar 😂. My framework of choice in recent times is Svelte, so I generated a starter application from the documents and sent Cursor on its way. It was a pretty mind blowing experience watching it generate everything and after about a cumulative 5 or so hours across a few days I was able to stand up the site along with PostgreSQL integration and RSS feed on a devlog. It looks good on mobile too! I’m self hosting the site over at a newly purchased domain quinnchrest.dev and would love for you to go check it out. There you will find my projects, devlog, and some github stats. This is also my first time self hosting on my home server which I should also do some blogging on. I find it to be some pretty cool stuff, maybe a “Chronicles of an Amateur Self Hoster” or “Babies First Home Lab” should make it’s way on here…