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Confirm the non-negotiables

Walk through the important items in "Confirm the non-negotiables" and give the practical point of each.

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Confirm the non-negotiablesReadiness gates

  • Daily Cursor usage for at least the last 2–4 weeks on real work, not a toy repo. This is the thing they detect in minutes.
  • One real competitor comparison done and written down - Copilot, Windsurf or Claude Code on a task you actually ran.
  • A story bank of at least three polished STAR stories covering a hard debug, a turned-around customer and ownership in ambiguity.
  • One automation example you can pitch in three minutes with its trade-offs.
  • Three smart questions ready for the cross-functional and values rounds.
Go / no-go bar

Set the bar before you read your scores, so you can't move it. A reasonable gate: no stage below 3, the two technical stages (live debug, written) at 4+, daily usage confirmed and the story bank and automation example ready. Miss the bar and the plan is to drill, not to wing it.