Lesson Overview
- What is Cursor IDE and its difference from "typical" IDEs
- Demo of the project we'll built
- Explaining the course plan: how exactly I will use Cursor
- What is Cursor IDE and its difference from "typical" IDEs
- Demo of the project we'll built
- Explaining the course plan: how exactly I will use Cursor
Hi, you mention PhpStorm, which almost all of us use, but you create course for Cursors IDE. My question is, is Cursors IDE(AI) better than phpstorm's AI Assistant - JetBrains AI Service? Did you test JetBrains AI Service for PhpStorm before creating the Cursor IDE tutorial? Opinion?
I'm a happy PhpStorm user for 10+ years. And yes I did play with its AI assistant which disappointed me, to be honest, the results were hit'n'miss. But it's not even about the results from LLM, Cursor is just different in the way HOW they call the AI models. Cursor has a lot of internal optimizations BEFORE calling the AI to get the right context and to PREDICT what you will type/want next. In my experience, PhpStorm doesn't do any of that, it just, well, calls the LLM and shows the result.
That said, after this course I'm still back to PhpStorm because with Cursor as VS Code fork, I missed a lot of features from PhpStorm on how it shows the code, underlines a lot of things, etc. So I will keep using Cursor as a SECONDARY editor if I need to generate something with AI, for example.
Thanks for the answer. I'll give it a chance, but since I've been using Phpstorm for a long time and I don't really want to change it, I'll probably use both. It should be useful for some trivial CRUD operations.
By the way, it would be interesting to have "laravel security" content and some kind of "penetration testing" tutorial even with external software. If you use something, I'd be happy to look at/read it.
Thanks for the idea for the content. We don't use anything specifically, but it might be nice to research options and tell people about them. Will think about it.
You have tried PHPStorm + Tabnine Pro? Tabnine uses Claude as its AI engine and works contextually within your project.
No, I haven't used Tabnine Pro. Have you used Cursor and you're saying Tabnine Pro is better?