Cursor Composer: MULTI-FILE AI Coding for engineers that SHIP

Cursor Composer gives you INCREDIBLE Multi-File AI Coding Abilities

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Discover how Cursor's groundbreaking Composer feature is revolutionizing AI coding and software development. In this video, we dive deep into the power of multi-file editing and show you how to leverage this game-changing tool to boost your productivity.

🚀 Witness the future of coding as we build a simple prompt editing tool using Cursor's Composer, demonstrating its incredible capabilities across multiple files and components.

🔥 Key highlights:
- Multi-file editing with AI assistance
- Real-time code generation and refactoring
- Seamless integration with existing codebases
- Comparison with other AI coding tools like Aider
- Comparison between the new chatgpt-4o-latest model to claude-3.5-sonnet

🛠️ We'll walk you through:
- Enabling and using the Composer feature
- Implementing styling changes across multiple files
- Resolving errors and debugging with AI assistance

💡 Learn why Cursor's Composer and Aider are leading the pack in AI coding tools, and how they can help you write code faster and more efficiently than ever before.

Whether you're a seasoned developer or just getting started with AI-assisted coding, this video will show you how to harness the power of Cursor's Composer to take your productivity to the next level.

📖 Chapters
00:00 Cursor Composer
00:50 Enable and Setup Cursor Composer
03:05 Multi-file editing
10:05 Move up the stack - focus on what not how
19:55 Big Takeaways for AI Coding Tools

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[THCV]

Try using cursor and composer along with a voice transcriber tool (such as SuperWhisper). You can just talk out loud to code entire apps!

[ginocote]

Someone did a VS Code / Cursor extension for aider. It will know where your files are to edit them. To open it when installed, from the top command input enter >open aider
Or do crtl+shift+p then write open aider and enter.
It will open aider in your IDE terminal with the right path to files when you use add/.

[davids]

Really good overview, thank you for this. You actually got me excited to try Cursor!

[ddwinhzy]

I hope you can open a course with a detailed and complete set of introductions. It will be great to learn from you.

[moisesbessalle]

Love your content. BTW, what do you think of agent Q, swe agent, sakana AI and genie?

[phillonc]

Top content, I'm an avid learner yearning for more quality videos.

[yellowboat]

I feel like aider is streaks ahead of this hey? It's free, only pat for the API, and it has three features already, can yo usee yourself using Cursor composer over aider?

[stonedoubt]

Aider and ClaudeDev have entered the chat. I like Cursor. The nicest thing is not hitting token limits as quickly but I’m an insane developer… I mean I’m literally insane.

Here is an example. I used Swagger to generate a PHP client of the entire OpenAI api using their recent spec and am already half done converting it to PHP 8.3 with strict typing.

Earlier, I created Pydantic in PHP and translated the Ollama Python client to PHP.

Do you realize how much code that is?

[KyleFES]

Love the content Dan!

Always waiting eagerly for your next video's insights, keep it up.

[Calmren]

It's sooo good, this helped me refactor with ease. normally a nightmare. Claud Dev, Aider and Cursor all have their moments depending on skill level. i'll switch to try new models, but cursor is my main.

[MarcusNeufeldt]

using it for a while now, really good. how do you deal with versioning tho? Making so many changes on so many files...what if the LLM breaks the code and you dont know how to get stuff back together as it was? (asking as a newb coder here)

[jonathan]

Not seeing Composer feature in beta section. Have Pro plan enabled - any advice?

[MontyCraig]

I have been using this, Claude Dev and Aider
Claude Dev has already implemented prompt caching. I sent you an email. Do you do consulting?

[dawid_dahl]

Great video! Thank you.

Could you explain what @codebase symbol does?

[jonatasscdc]

Love your videos and everrything you do, Bro! Had a bad week with cursor as it has broken my entire codebase and then Aider was commiting to a detached branch... But what I love the most is the theme you use in your IDE, which one is this?! I need to get this set up and running.

[RealLexable]

As far i heard zed can do the same as IDE and is free. What do you think?

[RickMurt]

Awesome tutorial, thanks! What is this theme with the glowing text?

[kraei]

How come when I go to Beta i only have 2 options to toggle but don't have the options to click the others below it

[danielgillett]

when cursor reads the codebase, can it ignore certain files and directories like node_modules?

[leopoldomolina]

How do you achieve to see the changes just after saving your code file and without refreshing the webpage?