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Readiness rubric & gap plan
Use "Treat the rubric as a gap finder, not a score to admire" to describe the practical rule.
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Run the whole loop on yourself before they do. The point of a mock loop isn't to feel ready - it's to find the dimension that will sink you, while there's still time to fix it.
Treat the rubric as a gap finder, not a score to admire. Mark the weakest proof, turn it into one practice rep and keep the artifact you would show an interviewer.
Rate yourself 1–5 on each dimension below, honestly, using the evidence from the four drills you just ran. Anything under 3 is a blocker, not a weakness to mention apologetically in the interview.
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Advanced table
Score from the recordings, not from memory. Memory inflates
- Dimension
- Decomposition discipline
- What a 5 looks like
- Clarify → metrics → inputs → decompose → skeleton, every time, under a clock
- Source drill
- Section 1
- Dimension
- Applied-AI coding
- What a 5 looks like
- Clean, testable editor/LLM primitive built fast and correctly
- Source drill
- Section 2
- Dimension
- AI authenticity
- What a 5 looks like
- Drive AI hard, reject bad output, defend every kept line
- Source drill
- Sections 2 & 3
- Dimension
- Eval rigor
- What a 5 looks like
- Always answer “how do you know it works” with a concrete metric
- Source drill
- Sections 2, 3 & 5
- Dimension
- Customer craft
- What a 5 looks like
- Bad news first, options attached, relationship intact
- Source drill
- Section 4
- Dimension
- Ownership & values
- What a 5 looks like
- First-person “I,” specific “why Cursor,” honest on intensity
- Source drill
- Section 4
| Dimension | What a 5 looks like | Source drill |
|---|---|---|
| Decomposition discipline | Clarify → metrics → inputs → decompose → skeleton, every time, under a clock | Section 1 |
| Applied-AI coding | Clean, testable editor/LLM primitive built fast and correctly | Section 2 |
| AI authenticity | Drive AI hard, reject bad output, defend every kept line | Sections 2 & 3 |
| Eval rigor | Always answer “how do you know it works” with a concrete metric | Sections 2, 3 & 5 |
| Customer craft | Bad news first, options attached, relationship intact | Section 4 |
| Ownership & values | First-person “I,” specific “why Cursor,” honest on intensity | Section 4 |
Score from the recordings, not from memory. Memory inflates.
Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.
The loop is graded on the floor, not the ceiling - a 5 here can't offset a sub-3 there.