Cursor Composer Agent in 20 Minutes

[@rubslopes]

That's also my experience with these tools... They fiz one thing and break another. Asking one little thing at a time helps, as well as being very specific about the bugs. Thank you for the great overview!

[@DevelopersDigest]

Thanks for watching!

[@darknessguy4221]

I love how your review is so constructive and check different parts of the updated cursor. I can easily understand this as a UX guy. I've been thinking of going back to cursor right after windsurf announced their new pricing scheme all of a sudden without warning.

[@liberty-matrix]

"The hottest new programming language is English." ~Andrej Karpathy

[@molefiramontseng7538]

It's funny how this is a fact😅😅

[@realhelmi]

I think you're bringing up some important points in your video by pointing out possible issues with it going in the wrong direction on those longer running agentic tasks. I think that's currently one of the most important issues with Windsurf and the new Cursor agent as well. Keeping AI within the boundaries you want it and not throw over certain parts of your application. I have played around with that quite a bit, trying to let it write some documentation that is mentioned over and over again to have it take care of certain apsects or always be aware of certain goals of the project. My personal experience so far isn't that great - haven't found a reliable way to not break some features over time here and there by not explicitly telling it not to touch it or be careful not to throw things over. In my opinion one of the most challenging problems right now with AI guided development.

[@dawid_dahl]

I think this will be really useful in two years or so. Thanks for the video! 🙏🏻

[@DevelopersDigest]

Thank you for watching!

[@alehmus7435]

Why 2 years pls explain

[@dawid_dahl]

@ Because right now it’s too unstable. With a few refining improvements things should become useful when working with production code, and not just with toy projects.

[@gr8tbigtreehugger]

Many thanks for this video! The democrarization of coding in underway!

[@DevelopersDigest]

Thanks for watching!

[@mayursaroj5659]

Not quite sure what the major difference is. Apart from UI changes and terminal inside composer. All things that "agent" is doing now was already possible before with previous cursor composer.

[@THEaiGAI]

Is the 0.43 version only available for mac?

[@cheaptube4918]

Thanks this was very helpful!

[@DevelopersDigest]

I’m glad! Thanks for watching!

[@WhataMehs]

excellent video

[@DevelopersDigest]

Thanks!

[@bambanx]

What is there difference with the old composer? Thanks you

[@samtobin35]

Thanks! Very useful

[@nufh]

How is it compared with Windsurf?

[@DevelopersDigest]

Similar in a lot of ways - I made a similar demo when I tested Windsurf here for anyone interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnOxXqhqjMysjNk

[@alehmus7435]

What you think about Pythagora? I think is best but cost expensive. You should try

[@DevelopersDigest]

I haven't tried it - you are the second or third person to mention it. What do you like most about it compared to other tools?

[@alehmus7435]

Good updates every month. Soon V2 version will release.

[@DevelopersDigest]

@@alehmus7435 I'll take a look - thanks for the recommendation

[@dudepowpow]

What color theme are you using in Cursor?

[@DevelopersDigest]

Cobalt2

[@linus.samuelsson]

@@DevelopersDigest best theme

[@dpublep]

My programming language will be German 😜 Thanks for the video.

[@DevelopersDigest]

Thanks for watching! Side note - I just got an email that apparently my videos will be automatically dubbed to German soon. You'll have to let me know how I sound 😅

[@romaind4853]

I mean... I know its the 1st iteration, but if you have to fix everything after every prompt, you are not gaining time but wasting... Personaly i'll stick to the chat window, and we'll see in the future... Thx for the presentation though 👍

[@DevelopersDigest]

Thanks for watching!

[@xTomster]

Yeah I tried to use windsurf to buồn a simple chat app and it took more time fixing the issues than it was coding it myself.

[@claybowlproductions]

That's not an agent. That's a babysitter. We need agents to find clever ways to take the backseat.

[@SUNGWONG5]

Why cancel compose pop!!

[@witness1013]

Cursor is terrible compared to Windsurf - composer is a sad rip-off of the WindSurf feature set and now Cursor trying to play catchup.

[@dpublep]

In my experience, it's the other way around. Windsurf gave me code suggestions that were completely wrong. I will remain loyal to Cusor for the time being.

[@ArcanoIncantatore]

​@@dpublep I totally agree with you, I've tried two times to use Cascade for testing purposes, to build a single page portfolio webpage and to build an overlay timer app. In both cases, at a certain point, it started to hallucinate and started do senseless things that broke the initial results. I've tried the same with Composer Agent and the results are almost exactly what I needed at first try, and even considering that they had an issue today on performances and that it has been released yesterday.

[@ArcanoIncantatore]

​@@dpublep I confirm: today with the Cursor Agent I made a timer app in Python that starts and stops with recordings in OBS studio in the time it took me (without success) to make Cascade understand that I needed a borderless window... Plus I was able, in the process, to reference official OBS documentation and make a screenshot of the window to correct some minor problems. The latter two aren't possible with Windsurf right now. Plus I add, but that's personal taste, even if the overall layout of Windsurf is nice, I prefer the look and feel of Cursor that seems a VS Code on steroids

[@DevelopersDigest]

@@ArcanoIncantatore The documentation piece is something that I love using in cursor as well, I have seen that be a common complaint for Windsurf right now. But both are still just weeks (or days) old I would imagine we will see that soon in Windsurf