What is Cursor?

0:00 In part two, we're going to start building. We're actually going to be building an app, a landing page for that app, and an autonomous researcher, which helps us research useful things for our app. In part three, we're going to talk about advanced features like the Cursor mobile app, GitHub, and some other things that sound scary, but are actually easier than you think. And so, my name is Riley Brown. I've been using Cursor for the past two years, and they made some insane updates to both their models and their new agents view.

0:45 And so I just felt like it was time to make the most in-depth guide on using cursor on the entire internet. And if you like videos like these, make sure to hit subscribe and that like button. It helps me out a ton and allows me to keep doing what I love to do, which is make fun educational content like this on the best AI tools in the world. Anyway, let's dive in. All right, everybody. We have a lot to cover today, but again, this is going to be divided into three parts.

1:07 We first have the basics, then we're going to be building. I have a part 2.5 which will talk about some advanced topics specifically getting them on the internet and making sure that you have a good database in place for the app that you create and then we're going to talk about all the different advanced features that will help you use cursor effectively. So before I go over how to download cursor, I do want to talk about what is cursor?

1:30 Why would someone want to use cursor? And if I had to put it simply, cursor is a tool that allows you to communicate with an AI agent so that it can build apps for you. So, I just entered in a prompt and sent it to this model right here, GPT 5.6 Soul, and I said, I want to build a little app that lets me track my calories. Simple app, run it locally, very minimal, make it simple.

1:53 That's because I want it to just go faster. I want to keep it really simple just to illustrate the fact that you can type your idea to an AI agent. And here the agent asked me a follow-up question is what should the app be called? Call Track. And this is just a very simple app just to get my point across. And so after 1 minute and 12 seconds, cursor is done building. And it says Calotra is built and running locally, meaning it is running on my computer.

2:16 We'll talk more about this later, but I can either click on this and open it in an external browser like Google Chrome, or I can rightclick on this and open it in the cursor browser. And here we go. We now have a very simple calorie tracker. And I can say pizza 1,00 and we can hit add. And so this is a very simple app. All cursor is is an AI coding agent that you can talk to and it can help you build basically any app that is just in your imagination.

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