2 min lesson
The craft-decisive product round
Explain the contrast in "The craft-decisive product round", then make the decision rule clear.
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Cursor's product/craft round is built to detect superficial usage. For this seat that means you can't fake reliability opinions - you have to run Cursor hard on real work, run rival agents the same way and reason about exactly where the experience breaks.
The trap is praising the product. "I love AI and Cursor is amazing" dies on the first follow-up. The pass is a power user's read translated into a data scientist's lens: where the agent hangs, where latency is worst, what flakes and what you'd measure first if you owned reliability.
Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.
The same enthusiasm, told two ways - only one survives the follow-ups.