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Be _very_ careful about refactoring with Cursor -- it has a tendency to randomly delete important blocks of code and comments and re-order things in a way that make for difficult diffs to read. Make sure you do it in relatively small chunks and do PRs and have others review. The larger a refactor you do, the more difficult/impossible it becomes to actually review the code usefully.

Or adding. I've had to point it out multiple times to a co-worker when Cursor keeps adding the same thing to a data structure that shouldn't be there.

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