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A worked prompt

Say what this means in practice: "Work the same prompt every time you practice so you can feel yourself getting faster."

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A worked promptuse this as your rehearsal target

Work the same prompt every time you practice so you can feel yourself getting faster: Cursor wants to know whether developers trust the Agent to make multi-file changes unsupervised - design the research. It is a real Cursor tension, it mixes attitude with behavior and it forces a method choice between what people say and what they do.

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The Challenge, as a Pipeline

THE CHALLENGE, AS A PIPELINE

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diagram: flow

The two ▲ GATE steps are where senior candidates separate from juniors - don't skip them under time pressure.

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Optional practice

Practice: a worked prompt

QOn the research-challenge prompt about whether developers trust the Agent to make unsupervised multi-file changes, what should you establish before naming any method?