Skip to lesson
Exit
Cursor Product & Domain Mastery1 / 2

1 min lesson

A wrong suggestion costs more than a missing one

Use "One bad accepted suggestion erodes more trust than ten missed ones build" to say what you would do next.

Step 1 of 2

A wrong suggestion costs more than a missing one

This is the asymmetry that separates devtools judgment from generic product sense. A missing completion is a non-event. A confidently wrong completion that a developer accepts can plant a bug, waste a debugging session and - worst of all - teach them not to trust the tool.

Trust is asymmetric and slow to rebuild

Optimize for precision on the high-confidence surfaces, even at the cost of recall. One bad accepted suggestion erodes more trust than ten missed ones build. The product's job is to be right when it speaks and quiet when it isn't sure, with the diff always there so the developer can verify before anything lands.