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No-AI coding rehearsal
Say what this means in practice: "Cursor screens with no AI allowed beyond autocomplete."
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Cursor screens with no AI allowed beyond autocomplete. For a manager who has spent two years reviewing code instead of writing it, that is the round most likely to embarrass you, so the fix is reps under the real constraint, starting now.
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The Loop You're Rehearsing
Interactive diagram. Step through it with the Next and Previous controls below, or Tab to a region to read its detail.
Each capstone section is a timed mock of one of these stages - step through to see what each tests.
The bar is not LeetCode-hard puzzles. It is medium-hard problems with a backend flavor, the kind where a competent senior engineer writes clean, correct code and talks through complexity while they do it. Your muscle memory for that has atrophied if your day job is a calendar. Treat this section as a training plan, not a reading.