Asking Cursor to Review My Blog for Performance

raymondcamden.com · 1 month ago · 6

A developer used Cursor, an AI-powered code editor, to review their Eleventy-based blog codebase of nearly seven thousand files and discovered several performance issues. The tool identified that RSS calls to a defunct Mastodon server were timing out after 70 seconds, that a glob operation for copying Markdown files was processing 6000+ files on every local change instead of respecting build ignore rules, and that local API call bypasses could be improved. After implementing Cursor's suggested fixes, local build times improved to 0.33 seconds from several seconds per change.