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Now, just as with GitHub Copilot, when using cursor, you can also add comments to basically

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add a prompt, you could say, for this smart suggestion completion feature.

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So here I could say, read user input and store it in a file.

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Ask the user for more input until they're done.

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Now it suggests even more comments here for me, wow, lots of comments, and it now got

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stuck here in a mode where it just adds more and more comments, actually the same comment

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over and over again.

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And that is something that can also happen with AI.

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So it's good that it happened here.

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Might not happen for you, but AI can get stuck.

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It can get stuck with generating something you don't want.

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Now what's the way out of that?

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Well, the way out of that is to simply write some code where you overwrite whatever the

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AI is suggesting to you here.

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So for example, here I know that I'm interested in some user input, so I'll start writing

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some actual code, and now cursor suggests meaningful code again, which makes sense.

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So it wants to get the user input, append that to my output text file, and so on.

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Though it's not asking for more input until it's done, so what we could do, well, now

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it's suggesting to add a while loop, and it indented this code here as well.

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So we can do that, and now we would have a way of adding more input until we quit the

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program or until we enter done, for example, to break out of it, or we enter nothing if

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that's our exit signal, whatever we want to do.

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So again, cursor doing its job here.

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You just always have to keep in mind that you're the developer and that you can control

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and steer the AI.

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Don't trust it blindly.

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Don't get mad because you're stuck in some code generation you don't want, like with

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that wall of comments before.

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Instead, be smart, write your own code so that the AI can again pick up on that code

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and make more smart suggestions.

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That's the most efficient way of using it, and as you can see, the cursor AI is really

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powerful, really tries to help you a lot, but still, you need to control it here and

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there.