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The developer is still the author

Explain the practical point behind "The agent just drafts faster than they can type."

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The judgment Cursor actually hires for

Cursor bans AI in its own technical screens because it treats coding-without-AI as a clean read on whether you can evaluate code rather than just produce it. That tells you what the culture values: 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.

Say it like this

"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."