I gave AI my React codebase - here's how it made me 3x faster (Cursor AI honest review)

Not a sponsored post. No fluff. Just a senior dev's real experience after 3 months of daily use. I have been writing React for 10 years. I have survived jQuery to React migrations, Redux boilerplate hell, the hooks revolution, and every "React is dead" kind of tweet. So when everyone started screaming about AI coding tools, I was like BEHIND. I would tried GitHub Copilot. It was fine. Autocomplete on steroids. Cool, but not life-changing game. Then I tried Cursor AI on my actual production React codebase on large-scale platform with multiple repos, a shared component of repo and a Next.js as a frontend. Three months later? I genuinely cannot imagine going back. Here's my brutally honest review - what works, what does not, and exactly how I use it daily. 🤔 What Even Is Cursor AI? Cursor is a VS Code fork with AI baked deep into the editor - not bolted on as a plugin in the system. The difference matters. With Copilot, AI is a suggestion engine. With Cursor, AI is a collaborator that an