Transcription: OpenAgents Episode 257 - Cursor Fails to Open a File

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[00:00] Christopher David: So the agent IDE was supposed to be Cursor.

[00:04] Christopher David: But here's the problem with Cursor.

[00:06] Christopher David: I want to open a file.

[00:09] Christopher David: I'm gonna do open with Cursor.

[00:12] Christopher David: Open my file.

[00:13] Christopher David: Where's my fucking file? Where's my file?

[00:26] Christopher David: What do I even do here?

[00:28] Christopher David: Okay, so Cursor's not it.

[00:31] Christopher David: Cursor's not it. I don't know what this is.

[00:34] Christopher David: Iteration number six billion. You lost me as a user a while ago.

[00:39] Christopher David: Occasionally I would use Composer still, but like,

[00:42] Christopher David: and then it's taking seven years to close this app.

[00:45] Christopher David: Okay, what I need is when I open a file, it actually frickin' opens the file.

[00:53] Christopher David: Here's another example of a thing that does not work.

[00:57] Christopher David: If I go up here and I'm like, hey, first of all, oh yeah, OpenAI, let's take a look at this.

[01:06] Christopher David: What the fuck is this?

[01:08] Christopher David: The default for OpenAI is to open up this right pane and a one-inch file?

[01:20] Christopher David: What is this? Who designed this UI?

[01:23] Christopher David: Coming over to OpenAgents, if I just do Command-E, yes.

[01:28] Christopher David: Oh yeah. Okay, so I want the editor to just be like right there.

[01:31] Christopher David: Look at that, Command-E, there it is.

[01:34] Christopher David: Ah, now this isn't formatted or anything. I just did this like a single prompt.

[01:38] Christopher David: But oh my gosh, look, I can actually like look at my files and then pop right back over. Dang, that's nice.

[01:46] Christopher David: An IDE that's like a little clicky. That's it. It's done. We won.

[01:51] Christopher David: All right, now we just gotta kind of polish it and stuff.

[01:53] Christopher David: All right, moment of truth. Hey, can I open this file with OpenAgents release candidate?

[02:01] Christopher David: Does it work?

[02:03] Christopher David: Oh yes, it's right there.

[02:05] Christopher David: Do-do-do-do-do.

[02:06] Christopher David: Now just imagine like hitting Command-E and then being like boom, boom, boom, boom.

[02:13] Christopher David: Let's build an IDE, guys. We have to. We have to. We have to.

[02:17] Christopher David: It's gonna be your last agent IDE.

[02:25] Christopher David: See you soon.