1 min lesson
Use the product to build the product
Explain the practical point behind "AI tools are allowed at the onsite."
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Use the product to build the product
AI tools are allowed at the onsite. Driving Cursor fluently to navigate Cursor's codebase is not a shortcut you're hiding - it's the most on-brand signal you can send. Ask the agent to map the module, generate the boilerplate for a new command and explain an unfamiliar abstraction. Then read what it gives you.
Watch out
Don't try to understand the whole repo. It's too big and you don't need to. Understand exactly the slice your feature touches, deeply and treat the rest as a black box with a known interface. Candidates who go on an architecture safari run out of clock before they've shipped anything.