Jupyter Notebooks in Cursor: The Fast Lane for Iterative Coding and Learning

Discover seamless code exploration—and what to expect—when using Jupyter workflows inside Cursor When I first stumbled upon Jupyter Notebook support in Cursor, it was hard to get genuinely excited—my early attempts were honestly pretty clunky. Editing .ipynb files felt unreliable, and the workflow didn’t quite “click” the way a true notebook should. I kept bouncing between clumsy interfaces, and it didn’t feel worth the hassle. But recently, something changed. I’m not sure exactly when the update landed, but suddenly, working in notebooks inside Cursor is not just possible, but actually a pleasure. ...

October 30, 2025 · 3 min · Ben Karciauskas

Building Intelligent Agents with LangGraph and MongoDB: A Deep Dive into Vector-Powered Tool Discovery

When building AI agents, one of the biggest challenges is tool selection—especially as the number of available tools increases. Evidence from OpenAI’s developer community and technical documentation highlights that agents’ tool selection accuracy tends to drop noticeably with larger toolsets, sometimes causing irrelevant or random tools to be invoked even with carefully designed prompts. OpenAI’s internal discussions note a clear decline in single-tool call accuracy and an uptick in failure modes as the system prompt and available tool list grows, with developer complaints of incorrect or unexpected tool choices despite best practices. ...

September 25, 2025 · 6 min · Ben Karciauskas