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The Cursor tilt: lightweight and behavioral first
Answer this as if it were happening now: "The team is convinced developers don't trust the agent's multi-file edits and wants to know how to make them trustworthy. Generative or evaluative and which method first?" Say what supports your choice.
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The Cursor tilt: lightweight and behavioral firstkeeping pace with a fast AI-tool team
Cursor ships fast and instruments heavily, so the cheapest signal is often already in the logs. Before you recruit anyone, you can see retry rates, accept rates on Tab completions and where agent runs stall. Lean on behavioral analytics and small evaluative studies to keep cadence and reserve heavyweight generative work for the genuinely open questions where the logs go quiet.
Name each method's blind spot before the panel does. “A survey will tell me how many developers say they want X, but it can't tell me whether they'd actually use it, so I'd triangulate the stated preference against accept-rate logs.” Volunteering the limitation reads as senior. Hiding it reads as junior.
Attitudinal data is not behavioral data in disguise. Developers will tell you they want fewer AI suggestions and then accept more of them in the logs. When say and do disagree, do usually wins for shipped behavior and the gap itself is often the real finding.
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