The Cursor Extension That Taught Me to Stop Overengineering

I had this “brilliant” idea to build a cursor extension.

Spent hours diving into the docs, setting up the development environment, figuring out the APIs…

But here’s the thing about cursor extensions – they’re not like VS Code extensions. There’s some secret sauce involved that’s not immediately obvious.

After hitting wall after wall, I stepped back.

Wait a minute… 🤔

Couldn’t Raycast handle this? Or even Text Expander?

Facepalm moment.

In 5 minutes, I had exactly what I needed. Working perfectly.

Here’s what I learned: As AI gives us more power to build anything, we’re often building things just because we can.

But the stupid simple solution wins over the complex one, every single time.

Sometimes the best code is the code you don’t write.