823: Is Cursor AI the VS Code Killer?
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Wes Bos
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🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Scott and Wes serve up a discussion on AI coding assistants with a deep look at Cursor AI, exploring its unique features like multi-line auto-complete and Smart Rewrites. They also discuss why Cursor’s intuitive UI stands out and tackle the big question: is it worth the investment?
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:16 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
- 01:48 Handling objections around AI assistants.
- 02:55 Context windows and how they’re improving functionality.
- 04:08 Cursor’s UI.
- 04:51 This is cool, why is it not a plugin?
- 08:12 What makes the UI interesting.
- 09:13 Smart Rewrites.
- 11:44 It can create multiple files.
- 13:05 Using the chat interface.
- 16:32 Another chat example.
- 20:22 The main features of Cursor.
- 21:55 Multi-line auto-complete.
- 23:55 Using docs for additional context.
- 27:26 AI is here to help you, not replace you.
- 33:27 Is it worth it?
- 33:55 The pricing.
- 44:10 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs.
Sick Picks
- Scott: The Iron Historian, Scott’s Salt & Pepper Mills.
- Wes: Oxo Salt & Pepper Mills.
Shameless Plugs
- Scott: Syntax.fm Zed Theme.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Syntax today. We're talking about the hottest, hypeest code editor out there. |
| 0:07.0 | Seems like everybody's talking about it and that is this thing called cursor, cursor AI and this is a new code editor that is trying to once again change the game of becoming the new AI coding assistant and it's been a couple of months since we've had a show specifically on these |
| 0:25.9 | AI coding ones but I feel like things have have progressed in the last couple months and |
| 0:35.0 | cursor is making a bit of a splash. I think partially because they have some serious funding behind them and partially because |
| 0:39.8 | it's actually really good. |
| 0:41.4 | I'm very impressed at it. I'm kind of like I'm big |
| 0:45.4 | GitHub co-pilot and I was like, oh this is actually I would say significantly better |
| 0:50.9 | than GitHub co-pilot, which is saying something. |
| 0:54.5 | So today we're gonna sort of talk through, why is it good and how do you use it? |
| 0:59.4 | Is it worth it? |
| 1:00.4 | All that good stuff. |
| 1:01.4 | My name is West Boss, a developer from Canada with me as always is Mr. Scott |
| 1:04.8 | to Linsky. How you doing today Scott? Oh I'm doing super good man. I got a grie on cursor. This |
| 1:10.8 | might come off a little glowing in this episode. |
| 1:13.3 | I promise this episode not sponsored by cursor. |
| 1:16.7 | In fact, none of these episodes are sponsored by anybody, |
| 1:19.3 | but the show is presented by Century. |
| 1:21.0 | So Century. |
| 1:21.7 | Century. |
| 1:22.0 | So Century. |
| 1:22.1 | I. For Century. Century. |
| 1:23.0 | I. Oh, let's face it if you're using AI coding assistance. |
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