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Michael Truell (Michael Truell) on building Cursor at 23, taking on GitHub Copilot, and advice to engineering students. At AI Startup School in San Francisco. 00:38 – PG essays & first code 02:36 – Games, robots, and hacking ML as a teenager 06:54 – From Hemisphere to Cursor: first...

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116,444 views • 11 months ago

EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft just launched Copilot Vision in Edge—the first AI that can navigate the internet with you in real time. I sat down with Mustafa Suleyman (CEO of Microsoft AI) to discuss how it works, infinite memory, AI companions, agents, and more. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:58 Microsoft Copilot Vision rundown 02:35 Initial reactions and use cases 04:57 How Copilot Vision works 06:02 Teaching AI to remember 08:13 How Microsoft AI is differentiating from OpenAI 09:27 The push for the true AI companion 11:28 Living with a co-intelligence in 10+ years 14:04 How Microsoft handles your data 16:11 When and how can you try Copilot Vision? 18:15 Agentic AI that controls your computer 20:25 What's next: support, gaming, and more 22:34 Preparing the next generation with Copilot 25:11 Mustafa’s advice for students and businesses
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EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft just launched Copilot Vision in Edge—the first AI that can navigate the internet with you in real time. I sat down with Mustafa Suleyman (CEO of Microsoft AI) to discuss how it works, infinite memory, AI companions, agents, and more. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:58 Microsoft Copilot Vision rundown 02:35 Initial reactions and use cases 04:57 How Copilot Vision works 06:02 Teaching AI to remember 08:13 How Microsoft AI is differentiating from OpenAI 09:27 The push for the true AI companion 11:28 Living with a co-intelligence in 10+ years 14:04 How Microsoft handles your data 16:11 When and how can you try Copilot Vision? 18:15 Agentic AI that controls your computer 20:25 What's next: support, gaming, and more 22:34 Preparing the next generation with Copilot 25:11 Mustafa’s advice for students and businesses

Rowan Cheung

268,106 views • 1 year ago

We asked a dozen DevTool founders from companies like RevenueCat, Greptile, Firecrawl, Infisical, ollama, Resend, Mintlify, Unsloth AI, Porter, and recall.ai, about the state of AI agents and the future of software engineering. In this episode of Founder FAQ, we covered everything from agents as customers and the end of coding, to advice for founders starting out and what they're most excited about going forward. Their answers might surprise you. 00:00 – Meet the Founders 03:00 – Building for Agents First 04:22 – Biggest Early Mistakes 07:15 – Do Founders Still Write Code? 09:22 – Most Unexpected AI Discoveries 12:09 – What's Underrated Right Now 14:38 – Predictions & What's Next
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We asked a dozen DevTool founders from companies like RevenueCat, Greptile, Firecrawl, Infisical, ollama, Resend, Mintlify, Unsloth AI, Porter, and recall.ai, about the state of AI agents and the future of software engineering. In this episode of Founder FAQ, we covered everything from agents as customers and the end of coding, to advice for founders starting out and what they're most excited about going forward. Their answers might surprise you. 00:00 – Meet the Founders 03:00 – Building for Agents First 04:22 – Biggest Early Mistakes 07:15 – Do Founders Still Write Code? 09:22 – Most Unexpected AI Discoveries 12:09 – What's Underrated Right Now 14:38 – Predictions & What's Next

Y Combinator

27,515 views • 2 months ago

Interview with the Valo team where we go in depth on hydrofoiling, reimagining mass transport logistics, and being a great team member at a deep tech startup. 0:00 Flying electric boat company 1:55 1st principles of boats 4:25 Sponsor: SBS Comms 5:15 Main systems of vehicle 10:27 Being an early employee at a startup! 15:45 Early commercial/tech research 19:19 Global shipping logistics 23:17 Production numbers 29:38 From design to hardware 35:13 Size limits for hydrofoiling 46:00 Unlocking waterways 49:15 Small & distributed transportation 53:14 The true of engineering 56:25 Company culture 58:45 Founder mode vs manager mode 1:02:39 Advice for future startup employees 1:06:31 Deep tech pitfalls
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Interview with the Valo team where we go in depth on hydrofoiling, reimagining mass transport logistics, and being a great team member at a deep tech startup. 0:00 Flying electric boat company 1:55 1st principles of boats 4:25 Sponsor: SBS Comms 5:15 Main systems of vehicle 10:27 Being an early employee at a startup! 15:45 Early commercial/tech research 19:19 Global shipping logistics 23:17 Production numbers 29:38 From design to hardware 35:13 Size limits for hydrofoiling 46:00 Unlocking waterways 49:15 Small & distributed transportation 53:14 The true of engineering 56:25 Company culture 58:45 Founder mode vs manager mode 1:02:39 Advice for future startup employees 1:06:31 Deep tech pitfalls

Jason Carman

15,830 views • 1 year ago

Vibe Coding: The act of using only your voice in Cursor Composer to build apps, forgetting the code even exists Complete Video Tutorial Some people are skeptical about this new method of programming so why don't we build a ChatGPT clone with real time voice ( Andrej Karpathy 's voice) without typing, using Whispr Flow. For me "vibe coding" is my only option. Because i've never written a line of code. Time Stamps: 00:00 Intro to Vibe Coding (pretty corny) 03:02 Opening Cursor 04:07 Starting Your First Project from Template Link (Pinned to bio of @senior_swc ) 05:12 Building a ChatGPT Clone, Getting Started 06:38 Prompting, API's and Documentation Explanation 08:49 Using Perplexity (Input output custom spaces for coding) 12:07 Vibe Code Prompt 1 13:58 Result of Vibe Coding Prompt 1 15:22 Seeing Prompt 2 15:43 Managing Cursor Composer Context Length 16:25 Designing 17:21 Debugging with Inspect on Web View 18:20 Fixing Formatting 19:04 More Vibing, Lol 20:51 Saving and Uploading Projects to GitHub 21:59 Enhancing the User Experience 22:33 Honoring Andrej Karpathy 26:26 Implementing Real Time Karpathy Voice 28:30 Getting Karpathys Voice (Don't Do this It's Illegal) don't ban me i love you
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Vibe Coding: The act of using only your voice in Cursor Composer to build apps, forgetting the code even exists Complete Video Tutorial Some people are skeptical about this new method of programming so why don't we build a ChatGPT clone with real time voice ( Andrej Karpathy 's voice) without typing, using Whispr Flow. For me "vibe coding" is my only option. Because i've never written a line of code. Time Stamps: 00:00 Intro to Vibe Coding (pretty corny) 03:02 Opening Cursor 04:07 Starting Your First Project from Template Link (Pinned to bio of @senior_swc ) 05:12 Building a ChatGPT Clone, Getting Started 06:38 Prompting, API's and Documentation Explanation 08:49 Using Perplexity (Input output custom spaces for coding) 12:07 Vibe Code Prompt 1 13:58 Result of Vibe Coding Prompt 1 15:22 Seeing Prompt 2 15:43 Managing Cursor Composer Context Length 16:25 Designing 17:21 Debugging with Inspect on Web View 18:20 Fixing Formatting 19:04 More Vibing, Lol 20:51 Saving and Uploading Projects to GitHub 21:59 Enhancing the User Experience 22:33 Honoring Andrej Karpathy 26:26 Implementing Real Time Karpathy Voice 28:30 Getting Karpathys Voice (Don't Do this It's Illegal) don't ban me i love you

Riley Brown

73,901 views • 1 year ago

Full Cursor Getting Started Beginners Guide You can build an AI wrapper in 30 minutes that uses ChatGPT and API, even if you've never written a line of code, ever. This was 7 total Cursor Composer Prompts. Many people got stuck while following along my recent videos so I wanted to slow it down make one for beginners. From Downloading Cursor to Deploying on Vercel Template link is pinned to this profile @senior_swc Time Stamps 00:00 No-Code App Building 01:00 Getting Started and Downloading Cursor 01:50 Downloading the Template 03:13 Intro to Cursor Composer 04:06 First Prompt Getting Template Set Up 05:05 First Prompt For Real adding ChatGPT api 08:46 Setting up ChatGPT API 10:46 Testing Chat Feature 13:40 Cursor Feature Overview 17:40 Now Lets Add Voice 21:27 Asking Composer to Deploy the app on Vercel
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Full Cursor Getting Started Beginners Guide You can build an AI wrapper in 30 minutes that uses ChatGPT and API, even if you've never written a line of code, ever. This was 7 total Cursor Composer Prompts. Many people got stuck while following along my recent videos so I wanted to slow it down make one for beginners. From Downloading Cursor to Deploying on Vercel Template link is pinned to this profile @senior_swc Time Stamps 00:00 No-Code App Building 01:00 Getting Started and Downloading Cursor 01:50 Downloading the Template 03:13 Intro to Cursor Composer 04:06 First Prompt Getting Template Set Up 05:05 First Prompt For Real adding ChatGPT api 08:46 Setting up ChatGPT API 10:46 Testing Chat Feature 13:40 Cursor Feature Overview 17:40 Now Lets Add Voice 21:27 Asking Composer to Deploy the app on Vercel

Riley Brown

177,036 views • 1 year ago

I built an AI powered writing app with Cursor Agent without writing a single line of code in a little over an hour. Features: - AI powered autocomplete - AI powered image search with autosuggestions based on what i'm writing - Ai powered research based on what i'm writing - Block based writing (which is useful for my workflow as a video content creator) !!! And I ran it locally this time. Normally I use replit, so if you got stuck on connecting cursor and replit, this video is for you. Template pinned on @senior_swc (starting point you can download) Tools used - Cursor (Claude for ai model) - Firebase - Deepseek DeepSeek - Exa ( Exa ) - Search API These videos serve as R&D for the app we're building at @yapthread. We're building the cursor for content creators. Sections 00:00 Introduction 03:24 Introduction to the Template 03:54 Setting Up Locally 04:04 Downloading and Running Locally 05:34 Firebase Setup 06:10 first prompt in cursor + continuing firebase 08:11 Full Plan for the app I'm building 10:44 Outlining the app hotkeys 11:55 Testing First Feature 16:54 Adding Autocomplete Feature Deepseek 22:23 Adding Images to Blocks (Search API) 22:42 Implementing and Testing Image Search (Search API) 25:32 Adjusting Image Sizes and Social Media Discussion 28:11 Adding Relevant Links (Exa API) 30:34 Testing and Debugging Link Highlights 32:27 Finalizing Image and Link Integration 40:37 Conclusion and Future Plans
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I built an AI powered writing app with Cursor Agent without writing a single line of code in a little over an hour. Features: - AI powered autocomplete - AI powered image search with autosuggestions based on what i'm writing - Ai powered research based on what i'm writing - Block based writing (which is useful for my workflow as a video content creator) !!! And I ran it locally this time. Normally I use replit, so if you got stuck on connecting cursor and replit, this video is for you. Template pinned on @senior_swc (starting point you can download) Tools used - Cursor (Claude for ai model) - Firebase - Deepseek DeepSeek - Exa ( Exa ) - Search API These videos serve as R&D for the app we're building at @yapthread. We're building the cursor for content creators. Sections 00:00 Introduction 03:24 Introduction to the Template 03:54 Setting Up Locally 04:04 Downloading and Running Locally 05:34 Firebase Setup 06:10 first prompt in cursor + continuing firebase 08:11 Full Plan for the app I'm building 10:44 Outlining the app hotkeys 11:55 Testing First Feature 16:54 Adding Autocomplete Feature Deepseek 22:23 Adding Images to Blocks (Search API) 22:42 Implementing and Testing Image Search (Search API) 25:32 Adjusting Image Sizes and Social Media Discussion 28:11 Adding Relevant Links (Exa API) 30:34 Testing and Debugging Link Highlights 32:27 Finalizing Image and Link Integration 40:37 Conclusion and Future Plans

Riley Brown

82,974 views • 1 year ago