2 min lesson
Answering “why Cursor, why this role”
Draft the spine of your own "why Cursor, why DX" answer: name the artifact you'd anchor on, the reason DX over Field Engineering or product and one thing in Cursor's developer surface you'd change.
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“Why Cursor” is where generic candidates expose themselves. The space is hot, so AI hype is free and worthless in the room. A specific, evidenced answer is the whole signal.
Your motivation story should be built from your own hands, not from a press release. Anchor it in what you've actually done with coding agents, then connect that to why scaled teaching, the DX seat, is the version of this work you want.
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Full explanation
Full explanation
“I rebuilt my own release notes pipeline as a Cursor automation over a weekend and wrote it up and the thread did better than anything technical I'd posted in a year. That's the loop I want to do full-time: build a real thing with the agent, then teach it so other developers can. I'd pick DX over Field Engineering because I want the artifact to scale past one customer and I still want to be writing code, not just slides.”