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Score the AI-authenticity dimension
Talk this through in your own words: "Cursor's technical screen lets you use GPT and Cursor. What does that change about what's being graded and what behavior fails the round?" Finish with the next move.
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Score the AI-authenticity dimension
- Did you read the generated code before running it or paste-and-pray?
- Did you reject or rewrite at least one suggestion that was wrong or lazy?
- Can you defend every line you kept - and name what you'd test?
- Did you catch your own bug before the tests did?
When a suggestion is wrong, say so out loud and fix it on the spot: “That'll drop the last partial chunk on cancel - I'm moving the cleanup into a finally.” Catching the model is a stronger signal than never needing to. It's the exact judgment the round exists to measure.
Write the test you'd be embarrassed not to have: a cancel mid-stream, an empty stream, a malformed frame. If you can't quickly assert correctness, you don't actually know it works - and “how do you know it works” is the question that follows you through this entire loop.