I Tested the AI Code Editor Everyone’s Talking About—Here’s What Happened!

In this video, I put Cursor, the AI code editor everyone’s buzzing about, to the test. Watch as I explore its capabilities, tackle real-world coding challenges, and uncover both its strengths and limitations. Is it the game-changer we've all been waiting for? Tune in to find out!
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[tvwithtiffani]

Two things that make Cursor stand out for me. The editor knows what I'm about to type before I type it. All I have to do is place the cursor on the line needing editing & type one letter then visually validate the generated diff. #2 - The code block breadcrumbs that stick to the top of the viewport while you're scrolling your code to help you keep track of where you are inside your code🥰. These are very useful for experience developers like myself.

[VanzanTKG]

just a little tip you might want to try - if you actually type ctrl + k from the terminal window it creates you a bash script that automates the full install process, eg. can create a conda environment, install a nodejs environment and launch npm fully automatically with a single prompt.

[whig]

Cody is better for free use since it gives Sonnet as an available base model.

[alx]

It's not open source. Skipping. You don't need any proprietary version of VSCode, just install any of the existing open source plugins to your VSCode/VSCodium which do the same with any model of your choice - externally hosted or local ones via ollama.

[aimaniaco]

My biggest question (haven’t tried it yet) is how good it performs for maintaining projects. You don’t start projects from scratch frequently and even if you do start one, the complexity just increases over time so I’m super curious to see how well cursor keeps up with this.

[scitechtalktv]

I also played around with Cursor AI for code editing the last few days, and I am pretty impressed with it I must say!

A question: Am I correct about the models used in the free version of Cursor AI, that the gpt4o-mini is without a quota restriction (so no limit in the free version), and none of the other models do have quota restrictions?

Also: how good is the gpt4o model for code editing in comparison with the other models in Cursor AI?

Also: would it be possible to configure Cursor AI with your own choice of model, for example a Groq model? Are they useful for code editing? What other free code editing models are there, and could they be configured to work in Cursor AI ?

[thedevo]

When you tagged @Web I think you opened it up to a general web search. Have you tried pasting the link straight into composer? You don't even need to add the @ symbol to the link, it should do it by itself

[unclecode]

Great job on creating such an unbiased review. Even with simple tasks like providing API documentation, Cursor can't handle it on its own and need a human familiar with topic. Some bugs in this video were ones I expected Cursor to catch, but they were still there. Here’s what I want to do: I'll create a video making the same app you did, but in my own style using Claude and VSCode. Then, I’ll post your video on Twitter and share mine for comparison. I’d love to hear your thoughts. Anyway, great job with the review.

[supercurioTube]

I haven't played with it yet but beyond the original quick results which are impressive, the experience following seemed deeply unsatisfying.

Since I can code I think I'd choose to write it myself anytime, and actually understand and learn something.

[mrnakomoto]

U can do all that with continue plugin in vscode

[egoincarnate]

@engineerprompt You only get 50 slow premium requests for free account, not 500 as stated in your video. 500 fast premium requests is for paid.

[vaibhavnayel]

is the @web composer command able to browser pages within a domain? large libraries like pytorch have their docs spread across different pages and a single link wouldn't be enough to get all the required docs right? The example you used with replicate has all the docs on a single page so I can see why it works.

[autoflujo]

Great video! This is exactly what I’m doing. One question. Do you think is possible to create a web app, from developing to launching, with this tools? I have zero experience on web development but I have a strong knowledge of Python. But I barely know about cloud services

[DogNamedSam]

If I buy premium will the output be better? Asking for myself?

[mystupidbrain]

Thank you for making good but not hype infused content.

[marcomastrorilli]

I think it is just good for indies and small projects by now. Code maintainability and CRs unexplored tbh. Also it does not help on complex ci/cd pipelines on different cloud infrastructures. Professional outputs still far from reality 👋🏻

[lhardl]

You mat not know that, but there are developers that build things in darknet for fun from reaching next limits and they are not touching money because anticrime is based on analysing finances with above 93% success rate so they had years of experience and looking for new fun- like trolling interpol and fbi simulating some criminal activity to get email that warns he has to allow them access server or sth to write something stupid/funny and share with other devs xd
But now its era of playing Sims by cresting characters with bought identity and write AI that make them looks in the internet like someone that exists and there are companies that nobody exists, but Sims handle some jobs- that ones are just for fun from making them earning without using it for money crimes as some lower level guys who are building corporations with hundred of employees and there are sometime news that police enter corporation and found workers doesnt exist xD
But im leaving you that idea as its cool to think what you can do in case of having own Sims xD
I dont suggest to do it because risking for fun ist good idea