Cursor's NEW Tab Button is Kinda GENIUS!

I saw someone post on Twitter a cursor offer a tab button thing. It looks cool. I I'm I I hope and I I've answered my own question here. I hope this is a working tab button. It's basically a macro button, which is so cool. Um and even got a removal tool here for the key caps. It looks so good. I would love I want to buy this. I want to buy it. However, it's a reward for a certain amount of token usage using cursor. Hang on. I'm here like busting my balls. Not busting my balls, but I'm here promoting uh low context. We don't want to use loads of tokens. We want to get our context size down. We don't want to be just, you know, including every single file in our codebase in every single request that we ever do. If we if you're talking about a specific file at mention that file that you saw me do earlier when when we're talking about Trey bring our context size down yet at first glance because we're about to go into it cursor are rewarding people for using up loads of tokens. That was my monkey brain kind of going off on one there. And then I was like, hang on, this is actually really smart and really it's one of those things where the they've really thought about this award. They're not rewarding for bad behavior. They're actually rewarding for really good behavior. I can't I can't express how perfect I think this award is. Let me explain. This is a tab completion autocomplete is done through through manual coding. It's not achieved through the agentic you know thing the the agentic feature of uh cursor. So it's not rewarding people for just vibe coding and just you know writing a prompt and eating up loads of context or whatever. is rewarding those who are in the actual files themselves where as far as I'm aware autocomplete is the context of what it's what it uses is actually just the file itself. So it is the lowest amount of uh context available. Don't quote me on that exactly, but it it's rewarding people who are still coding, who are still using AI to help them with their code, but ultimately are still coding. And that's what I love about this award. Not not only does it look sick and I want one, but the inspiration or the narrative or the, you know, the concept behind this this re reward is really good. And that's all I have to say about that. I'm I'm Yeah. Uh I really want one, but truthfully, I'm not I'm I'm an agentic coder, you know. I see the future of programming obviously as agentic because whilst and we spoke about this last week whilst some people just find aic coding boring because they're basically turning into a manager I love it because not only am I getting fulfillment writing code or writing code I'm architecting code and managing code [snorts] I'm able to also provide hide my attention and care on the product. And I've mentioned this in the past, this only works if you're already a solo developer. I would love to work with someone on some a product um agentically and just see how that works. That's something that's very much missing from my repertoire of knowledge. But I'm dealing with the cars I've been given. I work on my own. I'm trying to become the best agentic coder that there ever was. And so with that, I'm really leaning into rules. I'm really leaning into MCPs. I'm really leaning into tools such as Code Rabbit that review my code just so I'm a really good agentic programmer. So I'm not actually writing a tremendous amount of code. Um, so I'll never win this award unfortunately unless cursor somehow sees this video and gives me a cursor tab just for being a good guy. Then um I'll never see one of these the light of day, but I do really really want one. This is part of a larger conversation on my show Command AI, which we stream live every single week. We discuss the news and all things related to AI in the world of design and web. Catch us next week and join in the banter.