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Reason about architecture with engineers
Recall the main items in "Reason about architecture with engineers", then connect each one to the work.
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The JD's bar is explicit: navigate a codebase independently and reason through technical architecture with engineers. Not for them, with them. You are a peer in the design conversation, not a translator standing outside it.
This is the differentiator that screens most PM candidates out at Cursor. You do not need to write the production code. You need to discuss data flow, APIs, latency and failure modes without hand-waving and make scope tradeoffs that an engineer respects.