1 min lesson
The AI-authenticity test
Connect "The tell is in how you talk about the tool" to the decision you would make.
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People who build the editor can tell within five minutes whether you actually use Cursor every day or just skimmed the docs the night before. The tell is in how you talk about the tool: real users describe friction, shortcuts and workflows they invented. Preppers describe features.
This is the one screen you cannot cram for. A Software Engineer, Product candidate is being hired to invent the next interface for AI-native coding, so the team treats your own daily practice as the first proof you have taste in the medium. If you only opened Cursor to study for the loop, that shows.
Candidates who picked up Cursor only to prep are an explicit red flag. The fix is mechanical: start using it for real work weeks before you apply, on a codebase you care about, until you have genuine opinions instead of borrowed ones.