Building AI Agents FAST with Cursor and Claude Sonnet 3.5

[@marcobrien4137]

Truly fantastic, Stephen. You're an excellent teacher. People regularly say things like "Eh, just throw it in a Docker container and deploy in DigitalOcean, Heroku, GCP, etc.".....but for whatever reason, no one ever actually shows what that process looks like (or at least not as thoroughly, cogently, and helpfully as you did). Thank you again.

[@thunderwh]

Yeah, this is the type of content I want to see as a developer. Someone actually using these tools for development rather than hyping up magical tools that can allegedly build anything with one prompt. Where this workflow tends to fall apart for me is when I add tests. Some tests will fail and AI will get into a death loop of changing both the test and the code being tested ad infinitum.

[@TheFocusedCoder]

Thanks for the feedback🔥 Spot on about tests, I found that beyond simple validation/unit tests the AI is terrible at coming up with the core integration tests and needs a lot of hand holding to the point of you might as well just do it yourself

[@stevebraintv]

This is really good review, this is something different from the hype, thanks for sharing.

[@TheFocusedCoder]

glad it was useful 🙌

[@akhmedov_optimizeai]

Hello , I was just curios about building with cursor or with no code tools like n8n for faster and better development what way do you suggest to build ai solutions for businesses ?

[@TheFocusedCoder]

Use cursor when building solutions and want direct access to the underlying code. Use n8n for point to point integrations and automations you don't want to write yourself. You can effectively use both because n8n provides you with webhooks and the ability to add http endpoints. General warning "No-code" anything tools are tricky because it helps you move fast but you can end up with a mess that becomes unmaintainable and difficult to customize.

[@VanzanTKG]

little trick for composer and when testing updates, dont apply all after it does its update but instead go to save all, the updated code is then available to be tested but the composer still thinks it hasnt been applied, you then can test the code if you dont like it then you then reject it. I hope Ive explained this correctly but give it a go.

[@TheFocusedCoder]

good tip ! I'll try that out

[@Beloved_Digital]

Can i integrate Aider with a free open source model. Since Claude sonnet 3.5 is not free? Is it possible please

[@TheFocusedCoder]

@@Beloved_Digital I would check aider docs for the latest on open source maybe try ollama

[@joselima7655]

One day I’ll be a Sr.Review Engineer

[@TheFocusedCoder]

Hilarious 😂

[@42svb58]

Cursor sounded promising but it is not usable! I will revisit when the platform becomes more mature. Check the issues on the forum for more info (don't just take my word for it)

[@TheFocusedCoder]

That has not been my experience but there are bugs for sure. I even highlighted one in the video

[@nyriz]

Aider is open source and a lottttt better

[@whodoneitx2x]

@TheFocusedCoder could you check out Aider as well and compare it to cursor? And perhaps claude dev another time?

[@TheFocusedCoder]

Yeah maybe in a future video. I’d have to really play around with aider and Claude dev. I’ve only seen a few demos

[@nyriz]

It seems they have good marketing to overhype their product.

[@TheFocusedCoder]

😂 I’m not sponsored but I wouldn’t mind if they reached out

[@akhmedov_optimizeai]

Bruh Just wanted to record same type of video, should have gatekeeped this tool btw (((((

[@TheFocusedCoder]

I'm honestly surprised cursor is catching on I had to share 🔥