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2 min lesson

Repeated Tab misses

Put this idea into your own words: "Start with this check: You can reproduce the issue in one file."

Step 1 of 2

The job: you can run a first-check diagnosis and decide whether to change settings or escalate. Start with this check: You can reproduce the issue in one file. Keep it small enough to check the result yourself instead of taking the summary on trust.

Fix the context, not the model

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  1. Tab wants to rewrite the return into a sort — and that drops the filtering this function exists for. Confident. Plausible. Wrong. Reject it. A miss you ignore costs nothing.
  2. Another miss flips the empty-query contract. One wrong ghost is noise. Two in a row? That's a signal about the spot — nothing near the cursor states your intent.
  3. One comment naming the goal, and the next ghost is the guard you came to write. Tab to accept. Same file, same model — the only thing that changed was the context you gave it.
Repeated Tab misses? State the intent above the cursor before blaming the model.

Practice next: Now run the walkthrough: reject the bad ghost, add the intent comment, and accept the corrected suggestion.

Simulated Cursor 3.12 (macOS, light) — beta educational reconstruction, not the real product.