The article literally says at the end this was just the first post about looking before getting into actually changing the responses.

(that being said, mitmproxy has gotten pretty good for just looking lately https://docs.mitmproxy.org/stable/concepts/modes/#local-capt... )

wireshark would work for seeing the requests from the desktop app to Cursor’s servers (which make the actual LLM requests). But if you’re interested in what the actual requests to LLMs look like from Cursor’s servers you have to set something like this up. Plus, this lets us modify the request and A/B test variations!