What is Cursor?

0:00 So we're going to talk about things like agents, rules, context, uh models, things like that. So, I want to give you kind of three different examples because there's different levels of of how much AI assistance you can use in your in your project. So, I want to start off doing what I would suggest beginners do, which is opening an existing project that you've been working on, open it in cursor, and then start to use it gradually.

0:46 So, you can use things like tab completion and inline editing. And you can do that before you move to the the main chat interface where you just vibe code and pretty much just tell it what to do. So, we'll start off that way and we're going to use uh just an existing shopping cart UI that I have. And then we're going to move on to some vibe coding and we'll use the chat interface to create a a SAS landing page with an interactive calculator where you know you can change the number of users or the number of of any kind of resource and the price will update in real time.

1:09 So we'll generate that. We'll go back and forth ask it questions talk about context. And then finally we're going to create a next.js project that will be a markdown resume editor. So something a little more in depth and we'll again talk about context. I'll show you how we can create a a context file. Uh we'll also talk about setting rules and so on. All right. So this will be kind of a it'll be longer than most cursor tutorials because I feel like a lot of them they just jump in and show you the chat interface and generate something and that's it.

1:33 I want to go over the settings and and go over, like I said, the the kind of workflow that that I would use for each of these different um these different levels of of AI assistance. All right, so let's get into it. All right, guys. So, I just wanted to take a second and tell you about today's sponsor. So, Savella is an all-in-one solution for hosting your apps, your APIs, static sites, and they support just about any popular language and and framework that you can think of.

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3:07 The AI features are baked into the core experience and you get that familiar VS Code interface and you have, you know, powerful AI assistants that can help you write, edit, and understand code. And I would say the main difference between cursor and a lot of the other ai tools is how seamlessly integrated everything is. So instead of switching between your editor and a separate uh AI chat interface or dealing with clunky extensions, cursor just gives you multiple ways to interact with the AI right from where you're already