For a long time, I kept telling myself I'd get to it "when I had a free week."
Three of my open-source packages had been sitting on my backlog for ages:
• KafkaStorm — a simple .NET client for Kafka built on Confluent.Kafka
• RedisStorm — a lightweight wrapper around StackExchange.Redis for easier pub/sub
• SchemeGenerator — a C# library that generates default values for a given type and serializes them to JSON
Each one was built for a real need. But the maintenance work kept piling up: upgrading to the latest .NET version, updating dependencies, refactoring outdated APIs, writing tests, and building a proper release pipeline.
That free week never came.
Today, with Cursor, I got it all done.
All three packages are now upgraded to .NET 10, dependencies are up to date, legacy APIs are refactored, tests are in place, and CI/CD plus NuGet release pipelines are rebuilt and running smoothly. Work that would have taken weeks of scattered evenings was done in a single focused day.
My takeaway on AI editors — especially Cursor — is this: they don't replace engineering judgment. But when they understand your project context, they dramatically speed up the tedious parts. Migrations, refactors, GitHub Actions workflows, documentation, test coverage — that's where they really shine.
If you maintain open-source projects and your upgrade backlog has been growing for months, it might be worth giving an AI editor a serious try.
Repos:
https://github.com/stormaref/KafkaStorm
https://github.com/stormaref/RedisStorm
https://github.com/stormaref/SchemeGenerator
P.S. — I used Cursor to write this post too.
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