From the course: AI Coding Agents with GitHub Copilot and Cursor

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Understanding how chat, edit, and agent modes differ

Understanding how chat, edit, and agent modes differ

From the course: AI Coding Agents with GitHub Copilot and Cursor

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Understanding how chat, edit, and agent modes differ

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- [Instructor] Both GitHub Copilot and Cursor have three main AI modalities. They are Chat or Ask in Cursor, Edit, and Agent mode. And it's important to understand what these three are, how they are different, and also how to access them so you're using the right tool for the right purpose. The first one is Chat or Ask. It is very much talking to a standard LLM, very similar to talking to ChatGPT or to Claude, where the idea is you are having a conversation with an AI and that AI may pull in some content with context, but it's not acting on your code and it's not really working inside your code. So you're working in a separate context. Oh, let me give you an example of this. This project you're seeing here is a cipher app I'm building for our son because he's really interested in ciphers right now. It's running Next.js and this is what it looks like. It's really basic. It just sets up a sentence that is under a cipher. You try to guess at the letters, then it'll tell you whether or…

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