refactor
Changing how code is structured without changing what it does. The thing agents are genuinely good at, provided the tests are there to prove nothing moved.
Where it comes up
Cursor for Sales Engineers
“the way that I do that uh is I start with a a kind of blank editor uh with to do this I just uh open cursor opened a new window uh I'll open a project uh in this case because I want something totally net new maybe I'll uh I'll call this cob…”
PRD to PR
“refactors hard problems right? Um and you can see that this this agent actually deployed multiple sub agents. So in a in a brief words sub agents are basically you know smaller agents that are all working in parallel they all have their own…”
Cursor 101
“It's also 25% faster than its predecessor. So, it's it's moving in in the right direction. And so, if you're working on something that's genuinely complicated and genuinely hard, like a deep architectural change or maybe a deep refactor, co…”
Cursor for Financial Services
“of these actions across various systems so that you can bring the maximum amount of context possible and make your code more reliable. in practice uh in terms of common use cases. So we're seeing everything from rapid prototyping within uh…”
Developer Productivity Trends
“cycle things like onboarding new code refactors writing tests and now honestly even code reviews um being accelerated by AI by two to five times. Um but we're not seeing an even kind of uh acceleration across the entire software development…”
Engineering Teams in the Agentic Era
“decisions and then the background is more about uh execution. And so just expanding on this, here's again uh more of a discrete mental model of like which task should go where. So for some of these foreground things exploring an API any sor…”
Refactoring Legacy Codebases
“the ability to generate tests is much easier now with the latest models. So, I would recommend doing that. I'm going to pause and go through some of the questions and then I'm going to get on to the next kind of spiel here about um about co…”
Cursor for Quality Assurance
“one is a larger legacy codebase uh in which we're going to um look at kind of strategies on how to do some sort of refactoring and creating guardrail tests for much larger projects. And so, uh it's important to keep in mind that uh cursor h…”
How Cursor uses Cursor
“For larger organizations, this is extremely useful for things like large refactors where you might need to go across an entire code base and upgrade um a language or upgrade different dependencies and you want to make sure that agent has a…”
Refactoring Legacy Codebases
“confirm if we're preserving that behavior or not as we migrate the code. And then when it comes to actually moving the Spring Thymeleaf code to React, I have a migration [clears throat] agent which is focused specifically on converting that…”
Securing Agentic Coding at Scale
“so the idea here is that um conversation insights will tell you what folks are actually doing within cursor in terms of like the categories of work. Are they using the agent for code refactoring? Are they building new features? I think we'v…”