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So, Cursor has this smart completion and suggestions feature.

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This feature also allows you to write code that wouldn't work and it'll try to fix

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it for you.

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For example, here I can add parseInput like this because I want to add a function called

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parseInput but I forgot to add the def keyword.

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Well, you see it here in this box.

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That's what Cursor suggests to me.

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It wants to add the def keyword for me, it wants to add the list of parameters and it

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even wants to add the code.

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And it wants to add another function, a bit cut off here, where it then also parses the

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output.

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So if I now hit tab with that, it adds all that code here, just like this.

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And again, of course, I can remove what I don't want.

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But here with that, I got a way of parsing some user input.

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In this case, it assumes that I want to split it after every line break.

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Now, of course, we could tweak this.

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You're still a developer.

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Don't forget that.

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You can write your own code, but you can really speed up your development flow by using this

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smart suggestions feature.

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For example, here, I can also type if and again, since I'm in a Python file here, Cursor

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assumes that I maybe want to use this code here that I want to add this main clause here

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to run some code when this file is executed as a script.

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And again, going to a new line gets me some new suggestions.

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I can accept them by hitting tab.

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I can also view more details here, by the way.

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Whenever you got a box like this, you can click view to see more about that and then

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accept it here with that checkmark.

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And you can go through your entire code like this to read some file, print the input text,

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parse the input, and then do whatever you want to do, write it to some output file and

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so on.

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Now again, tweak that code however you want.

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You can write some code and Cursor will take that into account, of course.

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But the main takeaway here really is that the tab key and this suggestions feature is

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pretty powerful in Cursor and does quite a bit more, at least right now, than GitHub Copilot.