Choi: Manus AI Generates Project Architecture Without Requiring Boilerplate Templates
Min Choi · Manus AI replaces your AI tech stack? (Full Demo) · Mar 12, 2025 · at 26:01
While observing Manus AI build a DocuSign clone, Min Choi compares its automated project scaffolding process to tools like Cursor and Windsurf.
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“Another cool thing about this is that you don't have to have a Like a project structure as you see on other tools, like where, you know, people say, go clone this, you know, template, you know, this boilerplate code, and you can use that to build your app and have Cursor and, you know, windsurf and other tools to, you know, build that for you. Cause, cause their template is more optimized. It's already like skip a lot of steps. So you don't have to like ask cursor to do it for you. And this one, you don't have to do anything at all. You just kind of say, just go ahead and create me this app and it'll just create its own project structure and everything.”
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