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Why Cursor & your questions
Look at both sides of "Why Cursor & your questions" and name the signal that decides which one fits.
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“I love AI and security is fascinating” dies on the first follow-up, because every candidate says a version of it. A real why-Cursor for this role ties your motivation to the one thing that genuinely sets it apart - the novel threat model of autonomous coding agents - and proves it with concrete product specifics and real product use.
The pitch is specific and it's true. Cursor ships agents that read, write and execute code on customer machines and in the cloud. That creates a threat surface off-the-shelf security playbooks simply don't cover, which makes it the most interesting unsolved security problem available right now.
Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.
Every clause of the strong version opens a door the interviewer can walk through - and you can answer.