Live in it for a week before the loop

Use Cursor as your daily driver for at least a week before the demo round. Build a small real thing, hit a wall with the agent, recover from it and let it write something you then had to edit. You want lived moments to reference, not a memorized feature tour. The panel can tell the difference instantly.

Prepare a three-minute demo on your own repo, not a hello-world. Open with the task, drive the agent visibly and narrate one honest limit you hit and how you worked around it. Ending on a real edit you had to correct reads as fluency. A flawless scripted reel reads as a person who rehearsed but doesn't use it.

The task is adding an in-stock filter to the shop page, so I hand Agent the two files it touches with @ and let it plan before it writes. You watch it read the existing sort control, propose a diff, then edit the component and its test in one pass. It got the URL query params wrong on the first try, and that's the honest beat: I caught it in the built-in browser, corrected the prompt and re-ran instead of pretending it one-shot the feature.