I’ve been actively using Cursor for nearly a year now and have been keeping an eye on new features that could improve my workflow or simply pique my interest. Not long ago, Cursor released BugBot.
BugBot automatically reviews pull requests for bugs and issues. You can now connect your GitHub to Cursor and select the repositories you want BugBot to check.
While I only use Github for my portfolio, I thought It’d be fun to mess around with it a little.
I set up a new branch in which I messed up some code on purpose:
export default defineEventHandler(async () => {
const response = await fetch('https://api.counterapi.dev/v1/{endpoint }’)
return null
})The above would be weird to push since it returns null by default for a fetch.
console.log(undefinedVariable)This one’s not great either…
I pushed the code and created a Pull Request and BugBot went to work right away. It does take about a minute or so to check, which seemed a little long for the two small edits I did. It makes me wonder how long it would take to check a larger Pull Request.
After it was done, it created a comment showing the issue(s) it found and explained why it was an issue. What I noticed is that it found the issue with the fetch but not the console log…
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A nifty thing that BugBot adds, however, is a link to fix it in Cursor right away. So when I clicked the link, it opened Cursor for me and immediately added the prompt to the chat window. All I had to do was press enter, and it fixed the bug. Cool!
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After I fixed that issue and pushed the changes, BugBot ran again. In this case it did find the console.log issue, but I still find it strange that it didn't find it earlier. Seeing how this tool will have usage-based pricing in the future, that's not great.
All in all, I probably won't be using this feature much, mainly because I don't use Github much anymore. Though, if this ever got support for Gitlab and I could convince my boss to use this... Could be very useful.
