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The developer is still the author
Imagine this comes up at work. "During your demo, the agent produces code that looks reasonable but is subtly wrong. What do you do and why does it matter for this role?" Start with the practical move.
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The judgment Cursor actually hires for
Candidate accounts report that at least the first technical screen allows only basic autocomplete, so confirm the policy for each stage. Whatever the stage rules, the judgment Cursor values is the same: the engineer who reads a suggestion, spots that it's subtly wrong and rejects it is worth more than one who pastes raw output and ships. The whole product thesis assumes a human with taste stays in the loop.
"The win isn't accepting more AI code. It's accepting the right AI code faster and rejecting the rest with confidence. The developer is still the author; the agent just drafts faster than they can type."