Cursor AI Composer Agent - Idea to Full Stack App in Minutes

[@RAGEEcs]

I LOOOOVE cursor its amazing im putting out product in a few hours

[@RobShocks]

Amazing, this is what I love to hear! What are you building

[@Max_Jean]

Awesome walkthrough, thanks for putting this out

[@RobShocks]

@@Max_Jean Thanks! I just subbed to your channel. Awesome content, keep pushing them out.

[@Max_Jean]

@@RobShocks same I'm a fan ! I'm diving into cursor and its been a massive productivity boost

[@RobShocks]

@ it’s so much fun. I’m knocking out so many projects without getting slowed down. Love it. Pure creativity.

[@MinaEllis-XXAI]

I am forever grateful for your sharing. This is awesome and will definitely make an epic difference to my workflow

[@RobShocks]

Thanks for such a lovely comment! What kind of stuff so you like to build?

[@kranefivem]

So I am writing this down using the windows voice assistant as you shown in the video and I am glad to say that this has helped me a lot I think I developed my prototype application in I think probably three times my speed because I will take a lot of time to actually write stuff down but as I can I wrote this down in 10 seconds I think it has typos it has problems but yeah I understand it and I'm glad

[@kranefivem]

That the ai understands it as well

[@RobShocks]

It’s a game changer. Also try dictating into ChatGPT or any LLm and then finish your message with - structure my thoughts or rewrite as an email. Tidies up your thinking

[@outofordermedia]

Very educational, thanks!

[@RobShocks]

No worries, thanks for watching. Building anything interesting?

[@arturszyna4988]

Hey Rob, thanks for the another useful tutorial. Have you tried Windsurf?

[@RobShocks]

@@arturszyna4988 I have. Another great tool but I didn’t find great flow with it and kept hitting errors. I think it needs a little time to mature. Have you tried it? How did you find it?

[@faihansen8583]

Fantastic insight ! This could be the perfect moment to consider creating a Udemy course for us mere mortals ! Just a thought-but your explanations are absolutely stellar, and you have a gift for reinforcing key concepts in such a clear and impactful way. BTW Unlocking Cursor AI Pro Secrets Tutorial - A REAL GEM 💎

[@RobShocks]

Thanks for the encouragement! I’m considering it. From what perspective are you interested. What would you like the course to achieve or teach and from the perspective of a newbie dev or a product manager who wants to build things ?

[@faihansen8583]

​@@RobShocks I admire your workflow-you’re clearly a productivity powerhouse and making the most of audio tools. I find your process fascinating and believe it holds immense value, especially for students. Personally, I’m a big fan of building clones, as they’re an excellent way for developers to understand the logic and structure behind platforms. Initially, I was going to suggest focusing on AI and building APIs as a pathway to creating your own SAAS solutions- Iits still a fantastic idea. However, THINGS HAVE MOVED AGAIN!!!! We’ve now entered the era of Agentica 🤔🤔. I envision a future where specialized agents carry out tasks for us-a true leap into automation and creativity. Maybe it’s shiny-object syndrome, but I can’t help but feel we’re on the brink of an unprecedented creative explosion, with agents leading the charge. A course on building and utilizing agents would be incredible! If not that, your insights into where we’re headed as a society would be equally invaluable.

[@bennettvines6533]

I haven't tested it for web development yet, but I did for native Android development, and it struggles a lot. Sometimes it introduces many different kinds of errors, like missing imports, improper usage of some coroutine functions, or being unable to create requested and well-described smaller UI components like statistic charts. However, sometimes I'm amazed at how it's able to accomplish certain tasks. So, I'm really confused about the Cursor.

[@RobShocks]

I think right now it’s strongest on web dev. Biggest corpus of examples to pull from and the most popular use case. Perhaps in time it will improve with more trained models for mobile dev.

[@bennettvines6533]

I agree. This kind of technology is rapidly improving, so I guess soon it will work equally well for mobile development as it does for web development.

[@sashbot9707]

The sme for c# but I fixed it by giving exampels in the rule file.

[@RobShocks]

@@sashbot9707 good call. Some good examples at the website cursor directory

[@DylanPahina]

Love the video, but how do you get voice to work for mac inside the composer. I have the dictation enabled but the window doesnt work

[@RobShocks]

Did you place the mouse cursor in the box before you dictate? Does dictation work on other inputs in other apps?

[@vianch_tog]

update: version 0.44 has a new button to run the commands

[@dawid_dahl]

Do any of the people in the comments here know any programming fundamentals? For example what a terminal is? Or are you simply prompting and praying?

[@RobShocks]

@@dawid_dahl hey Dave, I’d like to get a sense of that too. Right now I don’t know what the level of experience is of a typical viewer but I try to make the videos as basic as possible. I’ll speak to my experience I do a a hybrid of prompting and praying and checking the output. My goal is speed to product and then go back and engineer and refactor after the fact. Every app I’ve ever worked on prior to AI has been refactored several times. I see too many engineers dwell on the perfect infrastructure and stack. It’s a product of loving to code and being a craftsperson as opposed to shipping asap. I’m exploring a balance of taking my hand off the wheel and going nitty gritty. I’m thinking ahead to 5 years time where newer models may well make knowing programming structures helpful but mute. The same way it would be useful for me to know ideal memory management or assembly for 99% of what I work on.

[@dawid_dahl]

@ I saw you doing “ls” so at least you seem to know what it is. 😄 Thanks for the video!

[@RobShocks]

@ its a fine line of over whelming people. I think I’ll start to teach more of that stuff. Won’t be introducing grep and regex anytime soon :) cheers!

[@mel-g3p]

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[@annonymbruger]

Developers at cursor must be laughing their asses of. All the time cursor is talked down by open source enthusiasts. But what really happens is that cursor moves slower, wait for ideas to consolidate, and then dig into to the same open source projects, analyze them at build production code that scales. They are like predators quietly waiting and advancing, and building knowledge on how there users work. At some point they will know enough about how developers work to actually replace them automated agents for most tasks. Let’s see how much of the actual developer tasks are left after o3, o4, sonnet 4, 5 etc. it’s the hole Sora discussion over again; training on others creativity and hard work to make stunning results.

[@RobShocks]

@@annonymbruger AI will get better than us. I spent years learning draw I enjoy it but art generators are so much better than me. I learned to code but AI is just so much better than me. I view it now as what amazing things can we build and how can we improve things. It’s obvious to me in a long enough time scale jobs will be taken. Now it’s about how we manage that transition and how we can come out the better with abundance in mind. Yes Cursor and every other tool on the planet is training on you and for the purpose of improving its automation to the point of replacement. Now let’s switch out thinking and start making amazing things and solving real problems.

[@annonymbruger]

@ you are right, but hard to ignore that billionaires are the big winners. It’s like watching a bad sci-fi moving coming into reality. I have been a developer for 30 years, lived through the late 90’ and early 00’ where a html developer could make a good living. That changed and in that regard it feels like same story over again. Now it’s not just basic skills but specialist skills, and if specialist skills degenerate who is going to control ai out puts? In my company ai code pollution is already a big problem. Overall ai has made developers lazy. It’s like they are quitting quietly - they know what’s coming soon.

[@kanikgoyal9011]

Windsurf is way better

[@RobShocks]

What do you find better about it?

[@woudream]

Actually, it's not that amazing. The experience on windsurf is indeed better.

[@mehtasdeepak]

Better you mean for a beginner , in what aspect it is better

[@RobShocks]

What do you like better about windsurf? Also a good tool but in my opinion I’ve just found better flow with Cursor.

[@woudream]

@@RobShocks In terms of tools, the uniformity of windsurf is the strongest. The entire project can be operated through a chat panel, and the agent later launched by cursor can also achieve this. However, I personally feel that windsurf is better for macro control and more suitable for beginners. Of course, each tool has its advantages; just choose what you are accustomed to.

[@RobShocks]

@ this is true windsurf, bolt, replit come from a macro first stand point and that does make it a whole lot easier to get started. Where I got stuck is after the initial project creation you have more granular adjustment needs and they get frustrating at that point. But I’m sure this will change. A middle ground would be great. I’d love to see the rapid deployment elements of the other tools connected to Cursor. Thanks for that

[@woudream]

@@RobShocks My principle is to use whichever is more effective, or a combination of both is also fine.