Decision walk: your first five minutes in an unfamiliar bug
Sequence the first decisions in an unfamiliar bug hunt so Cursor gathers signal before editing code.
The moment You own the pager for a repo you did not write. A hover bug is blocking a demo in 45 minutes. Your first branch determines whether Cursor helps you narrow the search or widens it. The framework Evidence → path → patch Good Cursor debugging follows the same order as good engineering debugging: capture the failure, trace the path, then edit only with a theory. Bad shortcut Patch before proof. Smaller diffs and less false confidence. Do not let Cursor edit faster than you have established evidence. Start signal 01 You can either describe the symptom or attach…
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