AI models do not know how to prompt other AI models effectively, so you should have Cursor write a one-paragraph search query formatted as instructions to a human researcher, then paste it into Perplexity or ChatGPT, which have better web search than Cursor's built-in feature.

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even AI models don't know how to use AI models but you have to tell it your task is to write a one paragraph search query as if you were telling a human researcher what to find

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I spent 400+ hours in Cursor, here’s what I learnedDavid Ondrej
Created: 6/18/2026, 2:32:09 PM

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