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The authenticity test: actually use Cursor
Connect "The people who build Cursor can tell within minutes whether you actually use it" to the decision you would make.
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The people who build Cursor can tell within minutes whether you actually use it. The product is a tool for sophisticated developers and the team reads candidates the way the product reads users: real ones describe friction, workarounds and specific moments. Preppers describe features.
This is the read that generic UXR answers cannot survive. You are interviewing to research a technical, expert user and credibility with that user starts with being one. Use Cursor for real work for weeks before the interview until your opinions are yours, not borrowed from a blog post.
Opening Cursor the night before is a fast-fail you cannot bluff past. The fix is mechanical and starts early: use it daily on a codebase or project you care about until you have lived friction, then form a hypothesis about one of those frictions you would actually want to study.