llm-workshop-2025

2. How professionals code using Cursor

Session objectives

The objective of this session is to understand the purpose of cursor, its working and how it differs from other coding LLMs found globally. It includes a live demo of how cursor can be used to optimize developers’ work.

Demo Website: https://nooreenf16.github.io/
Picture Tutorial: slides

Session topics

⏳	Topic
5 min	Intro and connecting to GitHub nooreen
3 min	Type of Prompts that can be input nooreen
2 min	Live Demo on a GitHub repository nooreen

Prompt for the demo

change the color of all buttons to a gradient purple to yellow

Steps for the demo

1. Connect to your GitHub

• Refer the slides for a detailed picture tutorial containing the steps to connect Cursor to GitHub.

2. Enter your prompt (examples in types of prompts ) or use the one in the demo.

3. Open the Agent

• It has the details of processing of the prompt. In our case, we made changes to existing code in a repository.
• A new branch created consisting of the new changes.

4. View “pull request”

• Details of the pull request are present. Next step can be done, if there are no conflicts in the merge.

5. Merge PR, this merges the changes to the main code.

• To reflect the changes to the original code, we need to merge the cursor branch to the main branch.

6. Refresh the hosted website.

• On refreshing the website, we can see that the background color of all pages in the website has changed from purple gradient to blue.

7. Optional to try out Types of Prompts Cursor Supports