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Expose the Knob or Hardcode it
Answer this as if it were happening now: "An interviewer asks you to design a workflow that gives accelerator-backed startups Cursor credits. How do you answer to show systems thinking rather than tool-tinkering?" Say what supports your choice.
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Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.
High-correctness machinery stays hardcoded; the levers a non-engineer should tune get exposed as config.
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Don't over-abstract in the interview either. If you propose a grand platform before you've shipped one working instance, you'll read as someone who gold-plates. The credible arc is: ship one concrete program, then generalize it on the second ask when the shared shape is real. Premature abstraction is its own anti-pattern.