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So, here I'm in a brand new empty folder, I opened it with the cursor IDE, I did sign

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into my account where I have the pro plan, though as mentioned you don't technically

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need it, there just will be some restrictions.

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And now we can use cursor here, of course, and I'll again start with another Python

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program here as an example.

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And I'll name my file here writer.py because I want to write a simple program which takes

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some user input and writes that to a file.

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So I'll start by again defining a function and just as with GitHub Copilot, cursor now

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becomes active and suggests me a completion for this line.

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And that's important, it looks like GitHub Copilot here, it has the same look, but this

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actually now is cursor since I'm using the cursor IDE.

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By the way, since cursor is a copy of VS Code, you can use VS Code extensions in here

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and you could install and use GitHub Copilot, but of course typically you don't want to

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do that because you would have conflicting AI assistance, which does not sound like a

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good idea.

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So here I got this cursor suggestion and with a tab, just as with GitHub Copilot, I

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can confirm it.

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I do not get different suggestions here if I hover over it, though.

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So as you see here, I get some suggestions, actually got more suggestions before anyways,

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but I can't hover over them to see variations.

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So here, I'll now re-add that colon to get more suggestions again and you see, now it's

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suggesting here that it adds this code and you see, it actually wants to add the code

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for this write file function and then it also wants to add another function for reading

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the file.

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I can confirm this of course, but I can also now delete parts of that if I don't want

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that and it'll now suggest even more.

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And in general, it's fair to say that this suggestions feature is more aggressive and

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also a bit more powerful in cursor, at least at the point of time where I'm recording this.

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So here it's suggesting that I have this write file function with this code and if I get

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out of this function, it wants to suggest this read file function.

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And again, of course, I can confirm this, confirm all this and be done.

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And now it added a bunch of functions that allow me to interact with a file and write

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to it, read from it, append content to it, whatever I want to do.

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But that's just the tip of the iceberg of what this cursor autocompletion feature can

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do for you.