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Product & craft: authentic Cursor usage
Pick two rows from the table in "Product & craft: authentic Cursor usage" and explain the choice each one supports.
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Product & craft: authentic Cursor usagea known Cursor differentiator
Interviewers can tell within minutes whether you use Cursor for real work. The strongest preparation is to use it daily for two to four weeks, compare it against Copilot, Windsurf and Claude Code and form an actual point of view you can defend.
- Tool
- Cursor
- A defensible take you could hold
- Agent modeCursor's full-capability mode: the AI can read the codebase, write and edit files, move them and run terminal commands. Contrast with Ask mode, which is read-only. Press Enter for the full definition. and Tab feel native to the editor; deep repo context is the edge.
- Tool
- GitHub Copilot
- A defensible take you could hold
- Strong inline completion, lighter on multi-file agent-assisted work.
- Tool
- Windsurf
- A defensible take you could hold
- Comparable agent ambitions; differ on flow and context handling.
- Tool
- Claude Code
- A defensible take you could hold
- Terminal-native agent; different surface than an in-editor experience.
| Tool | A defensible take you could hold |
|---|---|
| Cursor | Agent modeCursor's full-capability mode: the AI can read the codebase, write and edit files, move them and run terminal commands. Contrast with Ask mode, which is read-only. Press Enter for the full definition. and Tab feel native to the editor; deep repo context is the edge. |
| GitHub Copilot | Strong inline completion, lighter on multi-file agent-assisted work. |
| Windsurf | Comparable agent ambitions; differ on flow and context handling. |
| Claude Code | Terminal-native agent; different surface than an in-editor experience. |
Hold opinions you can back with specifics from real use, not marketing copy.