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Why the role is part field research
In "Why the role is part field research", answer "What is the success bar for a DX Engineer's output at Cursor?" Use the clue you found.
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Notice the bar. It is not "content shipped" or "assignment completed." It is whether a real developer is now able to do something they couldn't before, because of a thing you made. That standard reframes every deliverable: a tutorial that technically explains the SDK but leaves the reader unable to build with it has failed, even if it's grammatically perfect and on time.
AI coding agents change month to month - new models, new harness behavior, new failure modes. Nobody has a settled curriculum to teach. So you're not transcribing known answers; you're probing what's new of the product yourself, finding what's newly possible and turning that into something teachable before anyone else has. The educator and the researcher are the same person.
When asked what the role is, lead with the bar, not the title. Try: "It's teaching developers what they can actually build with Cursor's surface - and the bar isn't that I shipped a post, it's that a real developer learned something they couldn't have figured out alone." That one line shows you read the charter past the job title.