Cursor AI Tutorial: Build a Full Stack App with AI in 30 Minutes | Nat Eliason

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​ ​ My guest today is Nat Eliason.

Nat teaches the “Build Your Own Apps with AI” course which made $200K in just 7 days. I’m one of his 1,000+ students so naturally, I made him build an app to remix long-form content into viral tweets live with Cursor.

We also talked about how he wrote his brand new SciFi novel with AI as his primary editor.

(00:00) If you wake up and decide what to make, your job is safe (03:00) Building an AI blog to tweet content remixer with Cursor (12:58) YOLO mode: Let AI run wild on your code (23:32) The moment of truth: Getting the UI to work (27:01) Hooking up with Anthropic's API and security tips (32:02) Success!

From zero to working app (32:46) Adding one-click tweeting that just works (34:55) Nat's top tip for vibe coding (39:36) Will AI give us digital immortality? (41:04) How to use AI to edit an entire SciFi novel (44:07) Will AI tools wipe out creative jobs?

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