Using AI authentically (the Cursor test)

Cursor screens hard for AI authenticity and it separates offers from rejections. Pasting raw model output without judgment is the fastest way to fail a company that builds AI tooling for a living.

This is a known Cursor screening signal and it's not a contradiction with being an AI company. The expectation mirrors how Cursor wants its own product used: AI drafts and accelerates, a human keeps judgment in the loop. The take-home and the demo are partly designed to surface whether you actually work that way.