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Ansh Nanda: Reusing Cursor composer sessions degrades AI coding output

Ansh Nanda · Let’s build a social app with AI in 100 min (v0, Cursor AI, Replit, Claude AI) · Sep 6, 2024 · at 1:09:47

Ansh Nanda explains best practices for using AI coding assistants like Cursor while live-coding a web application with Greg Isenberg and Riley Brown.

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“I think alert people, they use the same composer, and that's when they don't get good results because the context gets overwhelmed.”

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