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The flagship: AI-augmented code review

Describe what "The system has to know which PRs touch sensitive code and engage there, not spray comments everywhere" changes in practice.

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The flagship: AI-augmented code reviewthis is literal, not a metaphor

Cursor states it runs agent-assisted security review across effectively every internal PR, catching vulnerabilities and blocking issues at CI before they reach production. "Get involved in important systems at the right time" is the actual product behavior - the system has to know which PRs touch sensitive code and engage there, not spray comments everywhere.

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Agent-assisted review, as a CI pipeline

agent-assisted REVIEW, AS A CI PIPELINE

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diagram: flow

The flagship responsibility as a flow. The CI gate is where it blocks a merge before prod - the rest decides whether to engage and how loudly.

Interview move

For any responsibility you're asked about, follow the pattern: name the project, name the design tradeoff, name the adoption risk. "I'd build the review agent to gate CI on auth/crypto diffs, tune for precision over recall because a noisy bot gets muted and measure the catch rate against developer-reported friction." Three sentences and you sound like you've operated it.

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Practice: The flagship: AI-augmented code review

QThe JD says "build AI-augmented code review to get involved in important systems at the right time." Decode what that responsibility actually asks you to build and defend.