No-AI coding rep

Cursor's first technical screen bans AI past editor autocomplete on purpose. As Michael Truell put it, “programming without AI is still a really great time-boxed test for skill and intelligence.” So the only honest prep is to run that exact constraint on yourself.

This is the one round you can't lean on tooling to fake. Open a blank file, kill Copilot and Cursor's agent, leave only token autocomplete and start a 45-minute timer. Pick a problem with the texture of infra work: a graph, a tree or something concurrent.