Cursor has so many amazing features that I just keep discovering new ones the more I use it. If you do want me to share more about the tools that I've used during this video, comment below. I'll make sure to add that to my to-do list for future videos. Happy Shipping!
Broo this is what will replace coding tutorials in 3 years time 🤫,if you have found this or have gotten yourself here, just know you are ahead of the curve. Thanks a lot Yifan
Hi Yifan, I'm finding your videos helpful as I get to know Cursor. I have some constructive feedback which could (imo) make your videos easier to follow. 1. 2:14 Make your editor full-screen instead of with the background/border to make it easier to read. 2. 5:51 Instead of zooming in and around to follow your mouse, just zoom in on the section and stay there. It's very hard to follow when it's jumping around. 3. 1:56 When you're explaining something in the editor, hide your camera view so viewers can read the screen. That said, great job with these. I know you've mentioned it in other videos, but I would love to see a deeper dive into how to use Notepad. Thank you!
This is starting to become my favorite channel for Cursor/AI dev videos! 🤩👏🏻 I’m also a working developer so this kind of actual stuff is great. A Cursor-dev adding *actual tests* to assure the code performs according to specification, feels like a light breeze on a hot summer’s day. 😍 Keep up the AI-some work!
Another great video, man! I like seeing how people use Cursor for actual feature building and real world type uses vs the "how to build some stupid simple app with Cursor" that everyone else seems to be cranking out. I'm going to use the whole "breaking a feature down into actionable steps with AI and feeding those steps back into the AI" thing on the project I'm working on. 👍
You can clearly see this is a developer who’s ACTUALLY worked on creating applications. Not just wannabe “content creator” who’s in it for “the views” to ride the hype train. Subbing right away. Would love to know if you guys have similar non-fluff channels suggestions going “beyond the basics”
Another thing is working with actual DB like supabase. In most of my cases and what I see online, you have 5x more bugs when AI starts incorporating backend and DB. It's interesting if we can add rules and docs to avoid most of those mistakes.
@@yurijmikhassiak7342 i've been using it with Knex.js without big issues (though my schema is small atm). think the key is to make sure that AI gets given the model / schema definition in the context as well as the documentation. Think this is probably another full video in itself.
I accidentally closed composer and it cleared the changes. The versions're messed up and I'll have to start over. This is happening not for the first time smh Guess I have to commit changes when everything works
I use version control as a safe guard. I would be interesting to see Cursor directly integrate in Git as their check point feature rather than implementing one themselves.
Here's the example I used in the video: In order to make the AI work better, I want you to break down my feature implementations into smaller and manageable steps (separate prompts) that are easy to test, easy to validate that I can commit working code using Git. For the following feature, help me work on this breakdown and give me the individual prompts that I can give to the AI for each bit of the implementation, one by one.
@@YifanBTHI think the pain point OP is referencing is TH-cam is great for discoverability [ of your channel] but not great for following your steps and learning to code using AI. Maybe you could use AI to convert your videos into .md/stackoverflow type answers so viewers can learn best practices.
you have to be in the composer window/pane already which you can press cmd+i to navigate to first (as long as your cursor is focused in the composer window)
my biggest problem with cursor right now is that it doesnt know a single thing about the project when asking him the stuff. i have to tell him every single thing that has been done for it to work well
There are two things that you can leverage here to automatically shove in context: - @codebase - let Cursor figure out all of the code context it needs to include given your current chat or composer query - .cursorrules file at the project root - context that gets shove into every single one of the AI queries.
The @codebase directive eats up your calls quickly. I’ve used cursor for 2mo now. The tab thing gets in the way a lot. I think aider+cline+new gh copilot are a much better combo and more bang for your buck. Great video though. I will try your techniques before canceling cursor
@@YifanBTH .cursorrules IS a pretty underrated possibility to express your general 'wishes' to your AI-Partner. Additionally there is a "Rules for AI" in the General Cursor Settings that will be used within cursor. .cursorrules is still taken into account additionally if present
@YifanBTH Jeez man, I work at ThinknChange. I wish I had time for making content. I got the job as soon as I made my first TH-cam video. I didn't look for it, it found me. Did you have a similar experience???
You can find lots of templates here: cursor.directory/ You can also checkout my other Cursor video that talks about it in more detail: th-cam.com/video/puKVeqChsgM/w-d-xo.html
Cursor has so many amazing features that I just keep discovering new ones the more I use it. If you do want me to share more about the tools that I've used during this video, comment below. I'll make sure to add that to my to-do list for future videos.
Happy Shipping!
Broo this is what will replace coding tutorials in 3 years time 🤫,if you have found this or have gotten yourself here, just know you are ahead of the curve. Thanks a lot Yifan
Nicely done, bro! Your Cursor Tips videos are the only ones that have helped me develop quickly in large-scale projects so far. Keep it up!
Really glad you feel that way. More videos coming right up ;)
Hi Yifan, I'm finding your videos helpful as I get to know Cursor. I have some constructive feedback which could (imo) make your videos easier to follow. 1. 2:14 Make your editor full-screen instead of with the background/border to make it easier to read. 2. 5:51 Instead of zooming in and around to follow your mouse, just zoom in on the section and stay there. It's very hard to follow when it's jumping around. 3. 1:56 When you're explaining something in the editor, hide your camera view so viewers can read the screen.
That said, great job with these. I know you've mentioned it in other videos, but I would love to see a deeper dive into how to use Notepad. Thank you!
thanks for the suggestion, will keep them in mind for the future.
This is starting to become my favorite channel for Cursor/AI dev videos! 🤩👏🏻
I’m also a working developer so this kind of actual stuff is great. A Cursor-dev adding *actual tests* to assure the code performs according to specification, feels like a light breeze on a hot summer’s day. 😍
Keep up the AI-some work!
Such kind words! I must keep up the good work.
Keep creating best practice content for Cursor.
Already in the works!
Nice one! Keep up the good work Yifan
Another great video, man! I like seeing how people use Cursor for actual feature building and real world type uses vs the "how to build some stupid simple app with Cursor" that everyone else seems to be cranking out.
I'm going to use the whole "breaking a feature down into actionable steps with AI and feeding those steps back into the AI" thing on the project I'm working on. 👍
Glad you feel that way. That's what I thought we were missing on TH-cam so wanted to add some different perspective.
Super useful content! Keep it up. What do you use for screen recording? Loving the zoom in and outs of the code. ❤
User tool called Screen Studio. Slightly pricey, but well worth the money.
You can clearly see this is a developer who’s ACTUALLY worked on creating applications. Not just wannabe “content creator” who’s in it for “the views” to ride the hype train. Subbing right away. Would love to know if you guys have similar non-fluff channels suggestions going “beyond the basics”
Great content! Can you make a video on using Cursor for Test (creating test cases, running the tests)? I can’t find any video on that?
That's one of the ideas I've got in the pipeline. I'll add your vote to it.
@@YifanBTH :)
Another thing is working with actual DB like supabase. In most of my cases and what I see online, you have 5x more bugs when AI starts incorporating backend and DB. It's interesting if we can add rules and docs to avoid most of those mistakes.
Also, what is easiest for AI in terms of DB integration. I tried Refine + Hasura. It is hard to move fast with it.
@@yurijmikhassiak7342 i've been using it with Knex.js without big issues (though my schema is small atm). think the key is to make sure that AI gets given the model / schema definition in the context as well as the documentation. Think this is probably another full video in itself.
Just discovered your channel and i love it! Can you share the prompt you'r using in your .cursorrules please?
you can check out a copy here: gist.github.com/yifanzz/84696f5313593a043febd5554134aba8
Do you have a library of prompts you use to get the roadmap from the AI? Amazing stuff . Just found your channel
haven't tried to get it plan something that long-term yet. I suspect it won't do a great job unless it's given a lot of context about the project.
I accidentally closed composer and it cleared the changes. The versions're messed up and I'll have to start over. This is happening not for the first time smh Guess I have to commit changes when everything works
I use version control as a safe guard. I would be interesting to see Cursor directly integrate in Git as their check point feature rather than implementing one themselves.
@@YifanBTH I agree. Aider does that and it's great.
Can you share you prompt for make smaller steps please. Great channel Subscribed
Here's the example I used in the video:
In order to make the AI work better, I want you to break down my feature implementations into smaller and manageable steps (separate prompts) that are easy to test, easy to validate that I can commit working code using Git. For the following feature, help me work on this breakdown and give me the individual prompts that I can give to the AI for each bit of the implementation, one by one.
@@YifanBTHI think the pain point OP is referencing is TH-cam is great for discoverability [ of your channel] but not great for following your steps and learning to code using AI. Maybe you could use AI to convert your videos into .md/stackoverflow type answers so viewers can learn best practices.
Can you share your cursor rules
I use this template for and added project context to it. cursor.directory/nextjs-react-typescript-cursor-rules
command N , creates a new file on my computer, how are you creating a new composer window with command N?
you have to be in the composer window/pane already which you can press cmd+i to navigate to first (as long as your cursor is focused in the composer window)
my biggest problem with cursor right now is that it doesnt know a single thing about the project when asking him the stuff. i have to tell him every single thing that has been done for it to work well
There are two things that you can leverage here to automatically shove in context:
- @codebase - let Cursor figure out all of the code context it needs to include given your current chat or composer query
- .cursorrules file at the project root - context that gets shove into every single one of the AI queries.
The @codebase directive eats up your calls quickly. I’ve used cursor for 2mo now. The tab thing gets in the way a lot. I think aider+cline+new gh copilot are a much better combo and more bang for your buck. Great video though. I will try your techniques before canceling cursor
@@YifanBTH thank you, going to try it
@@j0hnc0nn0r-sec you paying for cursor? cant you just create a new email and use the 200 premium responses every time?
@@YifanBTH .cursorrules IS a pretty underrated possibility to express your general 'wishes' to your AI-Partner.
Additionally there is a "Rules for AI" in the General Cursor Settings that will be used within cursor.
.cursorrules is still taken into account additionally if present
哈哈. 厉害 .我要分享给更多英语基础不好的同学.
感谢支持！我是不是以后得做个中文配音版本了😂
@@YifanBTH 那样就不能一次听力，两样学习了。我个人就喜欢目前这样的状态，超轻松，超阳光，超和气。
@@iLOGICNOTE 完美！感谢支持
I find all these options confusing adding reference to docs, codebase, current code file, URLs to documentation, notepads, etc.
they definitely don't make it easy, atm ai are still just tools and still requires expertise to leverage them well.
I want to compete with you. I'm 25 btw
looking forward to your content
@YifanBTH Jeez man, I work at ThinknChange. I wish I had time for making content. I got the job as soon as I made my first TH-cam video. I didn't look for it, it found me. Did you have a similar experience???
这不是艾伦吗？ 开心麻花开除了吗，现在也改行写代码了吗😂
这年头喜剧不容易做，还是敲代码简单点😂
Yo Send us that sample .cursorrules file
You can find lots of templates here: cursor.directory/
You can also checkout my other Cursor video that talks about it in more detail: th-cam.com/video/puKVeqChsgM/w-d-xo.html