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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

871: Coding Agents Cursor + Windsurf Tips

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Js, Technology, Css, Html5, Tech News, Webdevelopment, News, Javascript, Html

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Scott and Wes explore the world of coding agents, diving into tools like Cursor and Windsurf that promise to change how we write and manage code. They discuss modes, workflows, and practical tips for experimenting with these AI-powered tools in your next project.

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0:00.0

Welcome to syntax. Today, we had an episode for you on AI coding agents. That is how to use

0:08.6

cursor and there's a couple other ones, wind surf, cascade, replet agent, how to use these to be

0:16.5

the most effective. And there's a relatively new features to all of them called like agent mode.

0:21.8

And we're specifically going to be focusing in on that. So my name is Wes Bosom,

0:26.0

developer from Canada with me as always, Mr. Scott Toulinski. How are you doing today, Scott?

0:31.1

Yeah, I could be doing, I could be doing a little bit better. I had kind of a gnarly,

0:35.4

gnarly weekend besides besides my Detroit lines losing

0:39.4

Ohio State winning the national championship. Those are bad things that happened to me this

0:43.5

weekend. But I broke my finger in a kind of dramatic way. And man, it is really impacting

0:51.8

my life. I was trying to do a lot of coding yesterday.

0:54.5

My hand is all tweaked out and stuff.

0:56.6

Oh, man.

0:57.2

I'm, like, getting RSI from it just because, like, the ways I'm contorting my hand to try to type

1:02.3

without using, you know, my pinky or any of that stuff, it sucks.

1:06.6

So to give you some backstory real quick here, we can kind of breeze through this.

1:16.1

But also, if you are a little squeamish, maybe fast forward like a minute or so.

1:16.8

Yeah.

1:22.1

So Courtney was like, oh, I'm going to take the kids to this place with some of their friends.

1:26.3

And you can have the whole day to like take care of tasks around the house.

1:29.1

And I was just like, yes. I'm so stoked about that.

1:34.3

So I had a number of light switches I wanted to do. Yeah. So I start and I'm like doing like 800 things at once. I'm pushing, you know, custom software to my TV with my Samsung developers account

1:41.5

or whatever for Jellyfin. I'm like like i'm setting up landin's uh

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