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Confirm the policy per stage
Use "Early coding screens at Cursor have at times restricted AI to autocomplete only" to say what you would do next.
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Early coding screens at Cursor have at times restricted AI to autocomplete only. The policy varies by stage and by quarter, so confirm with your recruiter rather than assuming and prepare to solve a SQL or modeling problem cold if the first screen turns out to be AI-restricted.
“I'll have it draft the reconciliation query, but I want to check the join - it's matching on invoice_id alone, which double-counts partial payments. I'd key on invoice_id plus payment_id and reconcile against the cash-application ledger. Let me rewrite that part.”
Narrate one deliberate rejection unprompted. When the model proposes something plausible but wrong for finance - say, recognizing usage revenue at quote rather than at consumption - call it out and correct it. That single moment proves the judgment the whole loop is screening for and most candidates never show it.