The author demonstrates the use of Cursor by creating a Next.js app from scratch, using the composer mode to generate complex code. The author concludes by expressing their satisfaction with Cursor's potential to revolutionize software development and their anticipation for future features. They also mention their plans to build new prompts for creating more interesting apps.
Key takeaways:
- Cursor is a code editor cloned from VSCode with additional features like an AI assistant that can help write code, integrated with Claude Sonnet 3.5 model from Anthropic for code generation.
- Cursor provides several options to provide context for code generation, including referencing files, code sections, web search results, documentation, definitions, and chat messages.
- Cursor's chat window allows direct communication with the model and has additional options like referencing folders, commits or branches, and the entire codebase.
- Cursor's composer mode, still in beta, allows for a multi-step chat with the model to generate more complex code and can be activated using CRL/CMD + I.