It’s been quite the week.

My highlight was using a tool called “Cursor” for the first time. It lets you write code just by telling it what you want. I’m not a programmer and I have very little knowledge about writing code. Yet I was able to write a fully functional app and publish it within a few days 🤯

Today I’ll share how I did that, and also share the other prompting resources that I have created this week.

Here’s what’s in store:

Let’s jump straight in!

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Many people don’t know that ChatGPT (and other AI models) contain quite a lot of information about books.

While they are unable to output a book word-for-word (for copyright reasons), they were actually trained on a bunch of websites that summarize and discuss books. That’s why you can ask ChatGPT questions about most books and it will be able to give you very precise answers.

Here are 10 ways (and prompts) how you can extract knowledge from books to deepen your understanding:

I had heard about a tool called Cursor for a few weeks now. It’s been making quite the buzz in the AI circles, because it’s AI coding functionalities have recently improved a lot.

People without any coding knowledge have been using the tool, and just by prompting it in natural language, got the AI to write code for them.

On Tuesday I decided to test it out. And I was absolutely blown away.

This was my first tweet after trying it out for a few hours:

Step 1: Download it

First things first, go to cursor.com and download the application to your computer.

Step 2: Create a new project

Now just create a new folder on your computer.

You might want to create one main folder to house all your projects. And inside of that, create one folder for the project that you want to work on now.

Then open that folder in Cursor (File > Open Folder).

You should now be staring at an empty window like this:

Step 3: Open AI pane or Composer

There are now 2 options to start using AI to write your code.

Personally I started with the AI pane, but that was only because I didn’t know about the Composer yet. If I were to start over, I would definitely just start with Composer, because it is so much more powerful!

Open Composer by pressing CMD + I on your keyboard (Ctrl + I on Windows).

It looks like this (tiny but powerful):

Step 4: Write your first prompt

The awesome thing about Composer is that it has knowledge of your entire project. So you can tell it to create anything or ask it any question and it will do it for you.

For example, to start off my project, I just wrote a simple prompt like this:

That’s all it takes, then Cursor will start doing its magic and write the code for you.

Step 5: Iterate

Now, the code will probably not work immediately (we’re not there yet). So you’ll have to direct it a bit and iterate with it.

Start testing the app quickly. When errors appear just paste the error back in and let the AI in Cursor fix it.

If you do that, it’s really not that hard to get something working quickly and to eventually publish it.

I was able to create a fully functional Chrome Extension and publish it on the Chrome Store in just a few days (I could’ve probably done it in less time if I hadn’t done anything else).

You can check out my Chrome Extension here:

If you prefer to watch a video, I also published a video tutorial, walking you through my prompts and the entire process from zero to a working application here:

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Moritz

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