Engineering Explained: How I Use Cursor AI to 5x my Output

In this video, Edward Cates, Senior Machine Learning Engineer, walks through building a full-stack app using Cursor—from a Python script comparing Hugging Face models to a working FastAPI backend and a Vue.js frontend that streams real-time metrics over WebSocket. All of it done inside Cursor, using Claude for suggestions, refactors, doc writing, and debugging help.

He covers:

-How Cursor handles multi-file context and structured edits

-Where it beats Copilot (and where it doesn’t)

-How he approaches prompting to get better results

-The parts he trust it with—and the ones he still does by hand

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This isn’t a polished tutorial. It’s a look at how he actually uses the tool, where it saves time, and how it’s changed the way he codes day to day.