Get Started with Cursor - The AI Code Editor

[@TheMadridfan1]

After 25 videos on Cursor this is the first one that has me tempted. Excellent job.

[@daveebbelaar]

Awesome, thank you!

[@irvingzamora1837]

Exact same situation

[@isc77777]

No music, no long intro, great information. Thank You!!!

[@MerlinSingh]

straight to the point - no random music, no cheesy nonsense. finally

[@MannyBernabe]

Excellent. I'm all in on Cursor + Replit. The rise of the native AI dev. Thank you!

[@jeffre4395]

After searching for many Cursor tutorial for Beginner, this is by far the best I encounter, I finally understand it and able to get myself start with Cursor

[@CodingtheFuture-jg1he]

The clearest Cursor intro video I've seen so far! Really nice job!

[@aibeginnertutorials]

Hey Dave. Have been following you for a while now. Great work! I have also been using Cursor for about 6 months now and it rocks. The composer feature is amazing and I love the fact that I can add other AI models in the settings.

[@mussen1876]

Finally downloaded Cursor after being sure that I would switch back to VS Code. Been using it for about 2 hours and am already hooked and I think they will be getting a subscription out of me. Well done Dave, and well done Cursor. I don't have as much code experience as you Dave but Cursor actually help me improve my Python learning by keeping everything in the one place. The @Docs feature is one of the main selling points as I use it for API references etc.

[@kmaphane]

Yup the commit messages thing really gets to me. Its always so tough to write your own. Anyway, back to spending half an hour on a commit message. The trade off is huge though with Cursor.

[@MyBinaryLife]

I made a whole landing page last night in like 4-5 hours. Its incredibly powerful at giving you the outline/bones of a project quickly. Its not so great at backend but for someone like me who specializes in backend and never was good with UI work, this allows me to get my project ideas out into the real world faster than ever before. I cant say that this will replace my IntelliJ or PyCharm IDE cuz its lacking so much from those IDEs, but its great for working on the UI

[@64jcl]

Thanks for the nice demo. Atm I am using Github copilot as my AI assistant and works pretty similarly. I like that Cursor can modify the source file and when committing it shows in green what has been updated as that is often hard to know when just looking at what the chat can spit out in copilot. As for inline auto completion, that works well in copilot too, and I find it useful to just write a comment with what I am about to do now with the code below and it generally is very helpful with its suggestion - sometimes it need a nudge as if I am about to start coding it though.

[@kmaphane]

Thanks for the clickup plug. Looks really good.

[@nexuslux]

I've switched to cursor. Composer is a game changer for me snec I'm not a pro developer.

[@bambanx]

What it does composer?

[@frfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfful]

Vscode ❌ fiasco ✅

[@daveebbelaar]

That's my Dutch accent 😂

[@LaRebelion]

I was initially confused, but then I realized he was referring to VS-Code, it was due to some accent, Dutch as I can see now. 😅

[@dangulkin]

FeeAss Co.

[@brunocen]

It took me a while to understand what was he refering to. Even after i knew, i still hear fiasco 😆

[@mahiaravaarava]

Cursor is an AI code editor designed to enhance programming efficiency with features like intelligent code completion, error detection, and contextual suggestions. To get started, download the editor, set up your preferred programming languages, and explore its AI-driven tools to streamline your coding process and boost productivity.

[@BrockMesarich]

Awesome video Dave!

[@paulelliotco]

Great content as always! Thank you. Would it be possible to do a tutorial that covers an end-to-end AI application development, from gathering client requirements to deployment? Including insights into best practices for scaling, monitoring, and maintaining the application long term post-deployment. That would be incredibly helpful.

[@daveebbelaar]

Great suggestion! That would definitely be a good one. Not sure if I can find the time for this though ;)

[@NERDDISCO]

This was a really nice introduction, thank you very much!

[@daveebbelaar]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ddwinhzy]

You are the reason why I got this software

[@CarlosValero]

Great content!

[@dawid_dahl]

Awesome video. Thank you! Will subscribe.

[@JonathanMiz]

This video is going to the moon, first one to explain everything clearly. great work. I use Pycharm tho.

[@daveebbelaar]

My CTO uses PyCharm and it's awesome. We're always comparing features between PyCharm and VS Code haha. Do you think Cursor is worth the switch for you?

[@nicholasrescobar2769]

@@daveebbelaarfollowing!

[@tee_iam78]

Thank you for your video. Great contents.

[@moontraveler2940]

Awesome video! How did you activate the interactive session? 6:12 I reseached, the need of jupyter extension needed with code command to isolate the script, i dont like that. How did you do it?

[@muhieddinealqousi9614]

right click anywhere and choose run interactive window

[@moontraveler2940]

@@muhieddinealqousi9614 Thanks

[@MannyBernabe]

@@muhieddinealqousi9614 helpful. thx

[@SpkSpkS]

​@@muhieddinealqousi9614interactive session is not there ? Chat , current chat etc are there !

[@SpkSpkS]

I have the same doubt ? If you get it pls let me know !

[@nerding_io]

Awesome video Dave! Love cursor, composer with docs has been a game changer.

[@daveebbelaar]

It really is!

[@ReivajCabero]

The Composer is brutal.

[@manumalik5309]

Where can I find the link to the clickUp document

[@QuanNguyen-b7r4k]

Cursor now helps you write commit messages!

[@daveebbelaar]

Yea finally!

[@RaviRaiML]

I've been liking Codeium more - it's similar but an extension within VSCode already so no switching needed, and is also completely free :)

[@neonnftz]

It's not the same! Stop claiming it's the same when you haven't even tried.

[@ashron4472]

Maybe, you mean, it's similar? Not really, it's an extension that you have to install.. cursor already integrated it to their app

[@RaviRaiML]

@@ashron4472 ok yes i changed it to similar, and it might not be the complete experience but I believe there's no fee. An alternative to consider perhaps is all I'm saying

[@warrenb2856]

24:00 Delete line in VS Code is Ctrl + Shift + K. It does not work in Ubuntu 22 and Cursor. Has anybody found a workaround?

[@girijeshthodupunuri1300]

what theme are you using?

[@ccnh0g]

What theme color were you using?

[@gregdove-k5l]

any good free alternatives

I started out using Cursor. It started out fine, but now the Composer does work. Can't compose anything...Any ideas on how to fix it?

[@andywatts]

Are you able to add your interactive python window to the chat context? I see 'interactive..' under @file, but it won't add to context...

[@ricp]

it took me a bit to realize that "Fiasco" was VSCode

[@plannedillusion]

Sold 👍🏾

[@budirustandi576]

Do we still the github copilot license, if we use Cursor IDE?

[@daveebbelaar]

I don't have a copilot license anymore because of Cursor

[@achris7]

Fantastic except The latest build negates much of this :(

[@panaroid9636]

Nice

[@andrawssantos3168]

So, Cursor has LLM's like GPT, Claude?! That means i can just subscribe to cursor and not spend money on GPT anymore?

[@Frank26le]

I don't think so; it just works well for code programming. You need the other AI to solve different tasks besides coding.

[@andrawssantos3168]

@@Frank26lebut, if I only need it for code programming. It has literally the same power that the web gpt has?

[@daveebbelaar]

If you only need it for programming you can unsubscribe from the others.

[@jasonkwilliamson]

If I have an API for Claude do I need the subscription with Cursor too?

[@EricPena86]

@@jasonkwilliamson Yes, because there are tasks in Cursor that won't work with just the API.

[@chelebyy]

All AI make code what about database ?

[@joshman1019]

Cursor has a MAJOR drawback, even though they based the IDE on VS Code, it cannot execute the .NET debugger. So in order to debug any .net code written in Cursor, you have to use an entirely different IDE. That's beyond annoying. No thanks. Sticking with copilot for now.

[@TheOrionMusicNetwork]

Might be worth giving Codeium a go as an extension then (or not, but jut a thought)

[@micbab-vg2mu]

great tool:)

[@supirman]

On real-world projects, I've found cursor's decisions to be worse than other tools. I get much better results with regular claude and claud-dev.

[@IkeVictor]

you should add chapters to your video :)

[@digitnomad]

I feel VSCode will eliminate this light weight IDE soon if they not yet.

[@TheOrionMusicNetwork]

Presumably, but they haven't yet (and they don't offer claude either as well - and I think it will take a lot for them to do so given Microsoft and Open AI's relationship)

[@JamesYin-p4l]

thumbs up

[@animelover5093]

I still prefer the free version, I am paying for gpt and anthropic also gitlab etc.. that's alot to pay 😢

[@chiaza7735]

hearing some static noise in your mic. Makes the audio uncomfortable to listen to.

[@daveebbelaar]

Yea I noticed it too, thanks! I think I got it sorted now.

[@roderickmckinley4738]

This is crazy

[@carinebruyndoncx5331]

Now that aider also has to browser gui option, any idea how it compares ? Btw ik herken geen nl accent, je klinkt meer vlaams !

[@daveebbelaar]

Aider ben ik nog niet eerder tegen gekomen. Vlaams? Interesting haha

[@carinebruyndoncx5331]

@@daveebbelaar aider is meer geschikt voor software dan data science denk ik owv het minder iterative dat je wel met python notebooks hebt.

[@danvilela]

me: "what tf is Fiasco?" also me: "ohhh vs code!" 💀 still cannot hear vscode.. only fiasco

[@daveebbelaar]

Is it really that bad haha? Sorry for my Dutch accent 😂