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Demo moments that land

Give a practical answer to this: "A senior engineer says: 'I tried Cursor, let the agent loose on a ticket and it made a mess across six files. Not for me.' Which surface would you steer them toward first and how do you reframe Agent?"

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Demo moments that land

Toy snippets kill credibility. A scaffolded todo app proves nothing to a staff engineer who maintains a 400k-line monolith. The Agent demo that wins shows a real refactor in a repo that looks like the customer's world: extract a tangled function, thread a new parameter through five call sites, watch the agent run the test suite and self-correct on a failure.

REFRAMING AGENT FOR A SKEPTIC

Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.

diagram: compare

Same feature, two framings; the right one keeps the senior engineer in the room.