2 min lesson
Anticipate the questions you'll get
Give a practical answer to this: "In your rehearsal you opened with a tour of the code, spent four minutes clicking through files and had no recorded backup. For a Cursor panel of daily power users, name the two highest-priority fixes."
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Anticipate the questions you'll get
The panel will probe your tradeoffs and your scoping and especially where the agent helped versus hurt. Have the answers staged, anchored to your override log.
- "Why this scope?" - Tie it to the whoa moment and the one-day clock, not to what you ran out of time for.
- "Where did the agent slow you down?" - Name a concrete case where you spent more time correcting it than writing it yourself and what you learned.
- "What's wrong with this?" - Volunteer the real limitation before they find it; honesty about edges is the taste signal.
- "Would you publish this?" - Have a yes with a reason or a clear "not yet, here's the one gap."
Clarity and taste are graded as hard as the artifact, so an over-long, meandering presentation undercuts the very craft the role needs. If your five minutes sprawl to twelve, you're signaling you can't edit your own thinking, which is the same skill as cutting a bloated tutorial. Record the rehearsal, watch it back with a stopwatch and cut until the story is the same tight shape every time.