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Automations that scale support

Explain the practical point behind "The mindset Cursor screens for is simple: toil is a bug."

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This is an engineering-flavored support role and building the automations that scale support operations is a core, named responsibility. The tooling round checks whether you instinctively reach for a script when you see the same task done by hand twice.

The mindset Cursor screens for is simple: toil is a bug. If you find yourself copy-pasting the same triage steps, hunting the same log line or retyping the same macro, that's a candidate for automation. The interview won't ask for production code; it asks how you'd design the thing and why it's worth building.

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Which Automation to Build First

WHICH AUTOMATION TO BUILD FIRST

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

diagram: quadrant

Build top-left first: low effort, high impact. Plot any tooling idea here before you write a line.