Can Cursor's HARDCORE Review Skill Stop The Slop?
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A walkthrough and live test of Cursor's 'thermonuclear code quality review' skill, a strict automated code review prompt designed to push AI agents to be ambitious about structural improvements. The skill emphasizes file size limits, eliminating spaghetti code, type boundary cleanliness, and parallelism. The author runs it against recent commits to their open-source project Sandcastle, finding roughly 5 out of 7 suggestions genuinely useful. Key takeaways: ambitious review prompts produce more false positives but surface real issues you'd otherwise miss; the skill lacks any focus on testing or seams; and the prompt itself is repetitive and could be condensed significantly.