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The authenticity test catches thin usage
Respond to "Why does Cursor's product/craft round weight genuine hands-on usage so heavily for a researcher and how do you prove it without sounding rehearsed?" Name the reason and the detail behind it.
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This user is a sophisticated professional developer and the panel is one too. Generic UXR answers and secondhand product knowledge get read instantly. If you cannot name a specific place Cursor's agent loop frustrated you last week, you have not used it enough to clear this round.
“The workflow I'd study first is multi-file agent edits on a large codebase, because that's where I personally lose trust - I can't always tell what the agent changed or why. I'd pair session replays with short interviews on the moments people accept versus reject a diff, then validate the pattern against acceptance-rate analytics before recommending anything.”