1 min lesson
Use AI with visible judgment
Pick two rows from the table in "Use AI with visible judgment" and explain the choice each one supports.
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Use AI with visible judgment
Cursor screens for authentic AI usage, so using AI is expected and pasting raw output is disqualifying. Show the seams: where you prompted, what you kept and what you rewrote because the model's version sounded like marketing.
- Move
- Drafting
- What good looks like
- AI for a first skeleton, then a heavy human rewrite in your own voice
- The tell that sinks you
- Shipped copy that still has the model's cadence and empty adjectives
- Move
- Research
- What good looks like
- AI to surface competitor claims, then you verify each against the real product
- The tell that sinks you
- Quoting a competitor capability the model hallucinated
- Move
- Defense
- What good looks like
- You can explain why each kept line survived and each cut line didn't
- The tell that sinks you
- "The AI wrote that part" when asked to justify a sentence
| Move | What good looks like | The tell that sinks you |
|---|---|---|
| Drafting | AI for a first skeleton, then a heavy human rewrite in your own voice | Shipped copy that still has the model's cadence and empty adjectives |
| Research | AI to surface competitor claims, then you verify each against the real product | Quoting a competitor capability the model hallucinated |
| Defense | You can explain why each kept line survived and each cut line didn't | "The AI wrote that part" when asked to justify a sentence |
Be ready to point at any sentence and say why it's there.