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Crafting a 'why Cursor' that survives follow-ups
Start at the first move in "Crafting a 'why Cursor' that survives follow-ups" and carry it through to the proof.
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"I love the AI space and Cursor is exciting" dies on the first follow-up. Every candidate says a version of it. A real why-Cursor names a point of view on where AI-assisted development is going, ties it to your own hands-on use and explains why this specific post-sale mission fits you.
The test isn't your opening sentence. It's whether you can keep going when a skeptical interviewer probes, including the "why not somewhere more established" follow-up that's designed to find generic enthusiasm.
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"I think the hard part of AI coding isn't the model, it's getting senior engineers to trust an agent inside their real workflow - that's a culture change, not a config change. I felt it myself: I didn't trust Cursor's Agent until I'd watched it do a forty-file migration and learned where to gate it. Driving that exact shift across a thousand-seat eng org is the work I want and it only exists at a company building the tool itself."
That answer survives probing because each clause opens a door you can walk through. "Which migration?" "Where did you gate it?" "Why a thousand seats and not ten?" You can answer all three because it happened.