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Readiness scorecard and final plan
Show why this lesson detail matters: "Run the whole loop on yourself before they do."
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Run the whole loop on yourself before they do. The point of a mock loop isn't to feel ready - it's to find the dimension that will sink you while there's still time to fix it.
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The Real Cursor Infra Loop
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Each drill in this module rehearses a stage here; the no-AI screen and the 2-day project are the distinctive gates.
Score yourself 1–5 on each area below using the evidence from the five drills you just ran, not your memory of how they felt. Anything under 3 is a blocker, because the loop is graded on your floor.
- Area
- No-AI coding fundamentals
- What a 5 looks like
- Working, tested solution under the clock with complexity stated, autocomplete only
- Source drill
- Section 1
- Area
- Infra system design
- What a 5 looks like
- Six-phase drive, quantified, with tail and abuse handled and SLOs to close
- Source drill
- Section 2
- Area
- AWS / K8s depth
- What a 5 looks like
- VPC, EKS, IAM and mesh tradeoffs defended three “why” levels deep
- Source drill
- Sections 2 & 3
- Area
- Edge / multi-region
- What a 5 looks like
- Rate-limit algorithm choice and active-active vs passive, defended on cost
- Source drill
- Sections 2 & 3
- Area
- IaCInfrastructure as Code. Managing servers and cloud resources through version-controlled config files (e.g. Terraform). Press Enter for the full definition. / cost judgment
- What a 5 looks like
- Reproducible IaCInfrastructure as Code. Managing servers and cloud resources through version-controlled config files (e.g. Terraform). Press Enter for the full definition. instinct and a defensible cost-vs-reliability call
- Source drill
- Sections 3, 4 & 5
- Area
- Behavioral / values
- What a 5 looks like
- Five values-mapped stories cold, first-person, with quantified results
- Source drill
- Section 4
| Area | What a 5 looks like | Source drill |
|---|---|---|
| No-AI coding fundamentals | Working, tested solution under the clock with complexity stated, autocomplete only | Section 1 |
| Infra system design | Six-phase drive, quantified, with tail and abuse handled and SLOs to close | Section 2 |
| AWS / K8s depth | VPC, EKS, IAM and mesh tradeoffs defended three “why” levels deep | Sections 2 & 3 |
| Edge / multi-region | Rate-limit algorithm choice and active-active vs passive, defended on cost | Sections 2 & 3 |
| IaCInfrastructure as Code. Managing servers and cloud resources through version-controlled config files (e.g. Terraform). Press Enter for the full definition. / cost judgment | Reproducible IaCInfrastructure as Code. Managing servers and cloud resources through version-controlled config files (e.g. Terraform). Press Enter for the full definition. instinct and a defensible cost-vs-reliability call | Sections 3, 4 & 5 |
| Behavioral / values | Five values-mapped stories cold, first-person, with quantified results | Section 4 |
Score from the recordings, not from memory. Memory inflates.