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Product/craft round

Compare both sides of "Product/craft round", then name the condition that decides between them.

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These two rounds settle the close calls. The product/craft round is described as decisive: it wants opinionated depth on Cursor's quality and DX philosophy. The behavioral round probes the cultural dimensions Cursor screens for explicitly.

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“What's excellent is Tab - the flow state is real and it's hard to copy. What's frustrating is the Agent over-editing when it loses context on a large repo; I've reverted oversized diffs more than once. If I owned quality here, I'd instrument exactly that failure - how often agents produce a diff the user reverts - and make it a tracked quality metric, because right now it's felt by users and invisible to the team.”