Meeting Title: Brainforge Weekly Team Sync Date: 2026-02-02 Meeting participants: Demilade Agboola, Greg Stoutenburg, Sheshu Chandrasekar, Uttam Kumaran, Clarence Stone
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1 00:01:18.200 ⇒ 00:01:19.380 Greg Stoutenburg: Hey, Demoletta.
2 00:01:22.550 ⇒ 00:01:23.959 Demilade Agboola: Hi, Greg, how are you?
3 00:01:24.550 ⇒ 00:01:26.049 Greg Stoutenburg: Doing alright, how are you?
4 00:01:26.990 ⇒ 00:01:31.240 Demilade Agboola: Okay, just… Trying to tidy up some things.
5 00:01:31.700 ⇒ 00:01:33.020 Demilade Agboola: Yeah.
6 00:01:34.580 ⇒ 00:01:36.210 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, yeah, go ahead.
7 00:01:37.670 ⇒ 00:01:38.500 Greg Stoutenburg: Oh, yep.
8 00:01:40.070 ⇒ 00:01:41.289 Demilade Agboola: That’s so good.
9 00:01:43.560 ⇒ 00:01:45.339 Demilade Agboola: How was your weekend? Did you do anything?
10 00:01:46.700 ⇒ 00:01:48.670 Greg Stoutenburg: I did, it was a fun weekend.
11 00:01:48.930 ⇒ 00:01:49.710 Demilade Agboola: Nice.
12 00:01:50.060 ⇒ 00:02:00.269 Greg Stoutenburg: So, Friday evening, well, night, I think the show started at 8, went with my girlfriend to a cover band, a Sublime cover band.
13 00:02:00.520 ⇒ 00:02:11.790 Greg Stoutenburg: So that was fun. I’ve seen them before, and that’s been a good time. So, went, saw them again, that was fun. Saturday, I mean, mostly just got stuff done around the house. It’s really cold here.
14 00:02:12.090 ⇒ 00:02:14.500 Greg Stoutenburg: But that’s alright. And then…
15 00:02:14.690 ⇒ 00:02:16.649 Greg Stoutenburg: Sunday had a good hockey game.
16 00:02:16.830 ⇒ 00:02:20.759 Demilade Agboola: With my team. I play ice hockey in an adult league here.
17 00:02:21.330 ⇒ 00:02:22.260 Demilade Agboola: Oh, really?
18 00:02:22.660 ⇒ 00:02:23.420 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.
19 00:02:24.130 ⇒ 00:02:25.500 Demilade Agboola: Do you get into fights?
20 00:02:26.420 ⇒ 00:02:46.280 Greg Stoutenburg: I’ve never been in a fight, but what’s funny right now is actually, like, just before this call, I’m in a… I’m in a chat with a team that I’m on, where one of the guys who’s on the team, like, we just started on this team very recently, but, he thought I hit him on purpose one time, and then came out the next shift and, like.
21 00:02:46.320 ⇒ 00:02:54.839 Greg Stoutenburg: hit me hard, so… so it does happen, it does happen. But no, I have not… I have not been in a hockey fight, no.
22 00:02:55.460 ⇒ 00:02:57.640 Demilade Agboola: Oh, okay. Not a proper hockey fight, no.
23 00:02:57.640 ⇒ 00:02:59.590 Greg Stoutenburg: No, but I don’t know, I think,
24 00:02:59.910 ⇒ 00:03:06.850 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, at this age, I don’t think that that’s likely to happen, no matter how angry I am.
25 00:03:08.170 ⇒ 00:03:09.560 Greg Stoutenburg: Utah Road age?
26 00:03:09.930 ⇒ 00:03:13.380 Greg Stoutenburg: No, no, Demi was just asking me if I’ve been in hockey fights.
27 00:03:13.800 ⇒ 00:03:15.839 Greg Stoutenburg: Because I played in an adult league.
28 00:03:16.420 ⇒ 00:03:17.590 Uttam Kumaran: Hmm…
29 00:03:18.050 ⇒ 00:03:19.430 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah. Nice.
30 00:03:19.800 ⇒ 00:03:21.620 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah. Very P.A. And I said…
31 00:03:22.060 ⇒ 00:03:26.570 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, that’s right, yeah. I mean… Michigan kid, so,
32 00:03:26.930 ⇒ 00:03:32.670 Greg Stoutenburg: That’s, like, that’s where it comes from. So, just last week, the Detroit Red Wings player Patrick Kane.
33 00:03:32.810 ⇒ 00:03:40.830 Greg Stoutenburg: became the number one… he broke the record… became the number one U.S.-born points leader in the NHL. He’s a Detroit Red Wing.
34 00:03:41.920 ⇒ 00:03:42.320 Uttam Kumaran: Wow.
35 00:03:42.360 ⇒ 00:03:51.989 Greg Stoutenburg: he replaced Mike Madano, who had been the number one points leader, who was also a Detroit Red Wing, and born in the same town that I was born in.
36 00:03:52.470 ⇒ 00:03:52.960 Greg Stoutenburg: So…
37 00:03:52.960 ⇒ 00:03:53.870 Uttam Kumaran: Wow.
38 00:03:53.870 ⇒ 00:03:56.180 Greg Stoutenburg: It’s, yeah, we’re raising on it.
39 00:03:56.790 ⇒ 00:03:58.600 Uttam Kumaran: Sick. Yeah.
40 00:03:59.360 ⇒ 00:04:01.679 Uttam Kumaran: I, I grew up a Sharks fan.
41 00:04:02.320 ⇒ 00:04:02.830 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay.
42 00:04:02.830 ⇒ 00:04:03.780 Uttam Kumaran: the Thorne?
43 00:04:04.770 ⇒ 00:04:05.570 Greg Stoutenburg: That’s fine.
44 00:04:05.570 ⇒ 00:04:08.669 Uttam Kumaran: I went to a couple… I went to a lot of Sharks games growing up, but…
45 00:04:09.280 ⇒ 00:04:09.760 Greg Stoutenburg: Cool.
46 00:04:09.760 ⇒ 00:04:12.640 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t watch much hockey these days, I feel like.
47 00:04:13.070 ⇒ 00:04:13.670 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.
48 00:04:14.590 ⇒ 00:04:15.340 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.
49 00:04:15.770 ⇒ 00:04:30.880 Greg Stoutenburg: Well, as a… as a kid, the Red Wings were winning Stanley Cups back-to-back, and were in the playoffs every single year, and then they took, like, 10 years to stink, and they’re back! So, they were… they were… they were in the playoffs last year, and this year they’re probably guaranteed to be, because they’re…
50 00:04:30.880 ⇒ 00:04:37.900 Greg Stoutenburg: They’ve been either position 1 or 2 week by week in the… in their division, so we’re hoping for a solid year here.
51 00:04:38.350 ⇒ 00:04:39.160 Uttam Kumaran: Nice.
52 00:04:39.360 ⇒ 00:04:40.320 Uttam Kumaran: Hell yeah.
53 00:04:40.750 ⇒ 00:04:44.200 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I’m a Lakers fan. We’re okay, we’re 5th in the West.
54 00:04:44.480 ⇒ 00:04:46.320 Uttam Kumaran: Big win the other day.
55 00:04:46.590 ⇒ 00:04:50.019 Uttam Kumaran: As long as we make the playoffs, We got a shot.
56 00:04:50.530 ⇒ 00:04:51.240 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah. That’s it.
57 00:04:51.240 ⇒ 00:04:53.820 Sheshu Chandrasekar: You think LeBron’s gonna… he’s gonna retire?
58 00:04:54.090 ⇒ 00:04:55.269 Uttam Kumaran: I hope so.
59 00:04:55.940 ⇒ 00:04:58.399 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Wait, why? I’d love to see it one more year.
60 00:04:58.910 ⇒ 00:05:08.179 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t want to see any more years of LeBron. At all. I don’t like LeBron that much. I guess I… we want to… we want to chip with him, I’m happy, but…
61 00:05:08.780 ⇒ 00:05:11.979 Uttam Kumaran: He sucks up cap space, and he sucks up attention.
62 00:05:12.200 ⇒ 00:05:15.579 Uttam Kumaran: And… he’s okay right now.
63 00:05:15.910 ⇒ 00:05:19.999 Uttam Kumaran: Like, he’s doing well for however old he is, but, like, that’s all…
64 00:05:20.400 ⇒ 00:05:30.209 Uttam Kumaran: That’s it. Like, yes, it’s a feat of, like, human nature, but, like, I want… I care about championships. I don’t care about, like, Guinness Book of World Record type stuff.
65 00:05:30.630 ⇒ 00:05:33.140 Uttam Kumaran: I need… I need chips.
66 00:05:33.520 ⇒ 00:05:35.250 Uttam Kumaran: As a Lakers fan, that’s all I.
67 00:05:35.250 ⇒ 00:05:35.839 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, you wanna win.
68 00:05:35.840 ⇒ 00:05:38.929 Uttam Kumaran: I only care about championships.
69 00:05:38.930 ⇒ 00:05:39.870 Greg Stoutenburg: AI is good.
70 00:05:40.700 ⇒ 00:05:43.420 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I have no interest in that, and…
71 00:05:44.080 ⇒ 00:05:54.939 Uttam Kumaran: I care about Luka becoming the face of the NBA and the Lakers, and I want to buy Luka merch. I don’t like him being overshadowed by Legacy LeBron.
72 00:05:56.270 ⇒ 00:06:08.829 Uttam Kumaran: So, I have… yeah, I mean, it seems like this is his last year, I hope so. But, like, I feel like if it was, they would have, like, made, like, 5 documentaries out of it, and, like, you would kind of know it by now, because Kobe…
73 00:06:09.490 ⇒ 00:06:13.530 Uttam Kumaran: Really milked it. Which is fair. Yeah, I think that’s fair.
74 00:06:13.750 ⇒ 00:06:19.189 Uttam Kumaran: But… Yeah, I don’t know, it’s like every year now, LeBron’s in the same spot, so…
75 00:06:20.860 ⇒ 00:06:24.319 Sheshu Chandrasekar: It’s a fair point. I hated Cleveland growing up, so it’s so hard to, like.
76 00:06:24.320 ⇒ 00:06:27.469 Uttam Kumaran: I still really don’t root for LeBron, I, like, root for the Lakers.
77 00:06:28.380 ⇒ 00:06:31.679 Uttam Kumaran: And I… and I love Luca, though. I love… I was like.
78 00:06:31.790 ⇒ 00:06:36.939 Uttam Kumaran: cried the day he came to RT, like, it’s… they couldn’t have fucked it up more.
79 00:06:37.140 ⇒ 00:06:38.090 Uttam Kumaran: Basically.
80 00:06:38.090 ⇒ 00:06:44.439 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Well, come this summer, I think… I think we’re gonna be enemies, because I think it’s gonna be Rockets versus Lakers in the first round, for sure.
81 00:06:44.920 ⇒ 00:06:47.860 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, I thought you were… you may be a San Antonio fan.
82 00:06:47.860 ⇒ 00:06:48.330 Sheshu Chandrasekar: I know.
83 00:06:48.330 ⇒ 00:06:49.730 Demilade Agboola: I was doing really well.
84 00:06:49.730 ⇒ 00:06:50.100 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Yeah.
85 00:06:50.100 ⇒ 00:06:52.609 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, Rockets fan as well. I’m a Rockets fan too.
86 00:06:52.890 ⇒ 00:06:54.710 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Oh, no way! We gotta connect.
87 00:06:54.710 ⇒ 00:06:55.190 Demilade Agboola: It is!
88 00:06:55.190 ⇒ 00:06:56.120 Sheshu Chandrasekar: For sure.
89 00:06:58.670 ⇒ 00:06:59.110 Uttam Kumaran: That’s sad.
90 00:06:59.110 ⇒ 00:07:01.089 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Yeah, I’m a huge Rockets fan.
91 00:07:02.960 ⇒ 00:07:06.770 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I mean, if you have Katie, you have a great shot at, like, anything.
92 00:07:07.300 ⇒ 00:07:11.900 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Yeah. I don’t know. I can go into, like, a rabbit hole about that, but…
93 00:07:12.790 ⇒ 00:07:15.350 Sheshu Chandrasekar: But the entire call, so… Yeah.
94 00:07:16.110 ⇒ 00:07:16.670 Greg Stoutenburg: Nep.
95 00:07:18.210 ⇒ 00:07:23.209 Uttam Kumaran: Cool, let’s get started. I don’t know where these other guys are, but I’m gonna say getting started.
96 00:07:24.330 ⇒ 00:07:28.640 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, okay. Looks like they’re fixing some issue, but…
97 00:07:28.860 ⇒ 00:07:32.790 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I mean, let’s, I guess, like, let’s just go…
98 00:07:34.200 ⇒ 00:07:40.059 Uttam Kumaran: I’m glad everybody put updates in. Maybe we just go around the horn. I can call people with specific things, so…
99 00:07:40.170 ⇒ 00:07:54.449 Uttam Kumaran: Maybe, Greg, on your… worried about… yeah, I wouldn’t worry about Idra stuff. I think, yeah, like, I wanna… I wanna try to use your time on some of the Amplitude and mixed panel, like, demos that I’m working with marketing on.
100 00:07:54.820 ⇒ 00:08:00.369 Uttam Kumaran: So, I’m gonna get Amplitude set up later today, and then…
101 00:08:00.370 ⇒ 00:08:00.750 Greg Stoutenburg: Sweet.
102 00:08:00.750 ⇒ 00:08:04.979 Uttam Kumaran: Mixpanel, we’re gonna do a post on Thursday about Mixpanel’s MCP.
103 00:08:05.360 ⇒ 00:08:11.759 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Ryan is asking if, like, you can maybe, like, Screen record something, or like…
104 00:08:12.010 ⇒ 00:08:13.920 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah. Record a quick demo?
105 00:08:14.130 ⇒ 00:08:16.779 Uttam Kumaran: So that we can, like, use some of it for the post.
106 00:08:17.140 ⇒ 00:08:18.199 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay.
107 00:08:18.440 ⇒ 00:08:21.070 Uttam Kumaran: That could be for Eden stuff, or whatever, yeah.
108 00:08:21.700 ⇒ 00:08:25.169 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just saw that a moment ago.
109 00:08:25.620 ⇒ 00:08:30.250 Greg Stoutenburg: I’ll get caught up on this thread with Holly, and you, and Ryan.
110 00:08:30.350 ⇒ 00:08:31.590 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.
111 00:08:31.790 ⇒ 00:08:41.030 Greg Stoutenburg: But I think all I should need is just, like, if we don’t already have MixedPanels MCP set up, then we’ll need some… some help there.
112 00:08:41.130 ⇒ 00:08:47.310 Greg Stoutenburg: Or I just need to get into it and give it a go? And then…
113 00:08:48.960 ⇒ 00:08:55.839 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, I’ll… I’ll figure something out, and can record a… I mean, this is a social post, right? So, like… Yes.
114 00:08:55.840 ⇒ 00:08:57.579 Uttam Kumaran: So, so it’s totally, like…
115 00:08:57.950 ⇒ 00:09:03.509 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, it’s also, like, we can just discuss in here, like, Ryan will give us some pointers,
116 00:09:04.620 ⇒ 00:09:13.040 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I mean, and we can post it from your account, we can post it from mine, whatever, but we’re… Yeah, we’re doing a partner spotlight every week.
117 00:09:13.400 ⇒ 00:09:22.149 Uttam Kumaran: So… and then we’re gonna start it also on Robert’s account, that way we’re highlighting a partner every week. I think they want to do the mixed panel on…
118 00:09:22.350 ⇒ 00:09:26.310 Uttam Kumaran: this Thursday. So, I reviewed it, and I was like, hey guys, if they actually…
119 00:09:26.540 ⇒ 00:09:32.020 Uttam Kumaran: we should… and I also sent it to Mixpanel to be like, give us some love, and so, yeah, that’ll be nice. So that’s…
120 00:09:32.290 ⇒ 00:09:33.120 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay.
121 00:09:34.160 ⇒ 00:09:40.749 Uttam Kumaran: That’s probably where we could continue to use some help. And then… Yep, sounds good. As we continue to talk to…
122 00:09:41.430 ⇒ 00:09:46.139 Uttam Kumaran: new clients, and there’s more opportunity, I’ll loop you in, so… Cool. Yeah.
123 00:09:46.140 ⇒ 00:09:46.970 Greg Stoutenburg: Sounds good.
124 00:09:47.630 ⇒ 00:09:53.369 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, on… I think Demi, on… on default, yeah, I’m with you, I think.
125 00:09:54.430 ⇒ 00:10:00.070 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know, I feel like, again, my recommendation, one way is just to try to push the AI tool.
126 00:10:00.550 ⇒ 00:10:05.920 Uttam Kumaran: I think that could… that’s, like, a really flashy thing that maybe, like, can get people to start using stuff.
127 00:10:06.480 ⇒ 00:10:13.089 Uttam Kumaran: Otherwise… I, like, our… what have we tried in the past was to do,
128 00:10:13.930 ⇒ 00:10:17.309 Uttam Kumaran: was to do stuff with, like, raw, which is exports.
129 00:10:17.520 ⇒ 00:10:20.659 Uttam Kumaran: So I’m also almost wondering, like, if they don’t want to do…
130 00:10:22.090 ⇒ 00:10:27.669 Uttam Kumaran: if they don’t want to set up Polyatomic, we run on exports, but I think you’re doing a good job, like, pushing things, so…
131 00:10:28.390 ⇒ 00:10:29.560 Uttam Kumaran: I feel fine.
132 00:10:30.440 ⇒ 00:10:30.900 Demilade Agboola: Yeah.
133 00:10:30.900 ⇒ 00:10:32.009 Uttam Kumaran: How much more we could do.
134 00:10:33.210 ⇒ 00:10:42.880 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, I’m just trying to ensure that, like, we’re in their faces, and they’re aware that, like, any blockers we’re experiencing clearly comes from their side of things,
135 00:10:43.080 ⇒ 00:10:52.019 Demilade Agboola: So, it’s… so there’s some sort of paper trail, like, you know, you can see the messages, you can see me, like, reaching out and asking, like, you know, what’s the progress on this?
136 00:10:52.920 ⇒ 00:10:58.109 Demilade Agboola: So it’s not like, oh, end of week or end of month, it’s like, we’ve not come as far as we want to come.
137 00:10:58.390 ⇒ 00:11:02.479 Demilade Agboola: Whereas it’s just, like, you guys haven’t done what you need to do, so…
138 00:11:02.670 ⇒ 00:11:11.409 Demilade Agboola: I’m trying to just be on them, and just trying to, like, ensure that we let them see, like, the priority of things and the importance of things.
139 00:11:12.370 ⇒ 00:11:12.990 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
140 00:11:14.890 ⇒ 00:11:19.309 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool, and then on Magic Spoon, Yeah, I mean…
141 00:11:20.130 ⇒ 00:11:22.859 Uttam Kumaran: I feel like we’re gonna get it if, like.
142 00:11:24.540 ⇒ 00:11:33.499 Uttam Kumaran: I feel pretty good about that we’re gonna get the renewal. It seems like they’re just super slow, and, like, I know they also just, like, aren’t clear a lot of times with requirements.
143 00:11:33.990 ⇒ 00:11:38.510 Uttam Kumaran: Either way, I think they’re a nice, just, like, turn-on client that we just continue to work with, so…
144 00:11:39.570 ⇒ 00:11:44.150 Uttam Kumaran: We did good today. I think you’re gonna get your stuff out, so… Yeah.
145 00:11:45.890 ⇒ 00:11:47.350 Uttam Kumaran: Let’s see, after this week.
146 00:11:48.340 ⇒ 00:11:51.200 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, I think, yeah, with Magic Spawn.
147 00:11:51.400 ⇒ 00:11:58.809 Demilade Agboola: It’s just, like, reassuring them and making them feel like, going forward, things will…
148 00:11:59.420 ⇒ 00:12:14.999 Demilade Agboola: be smoother, I mean, clearly they can see the value of what we’ve done, it’s just, like, things around the edges in terms of, like, expert domain and expert knowledge, as well as just, like, timelines, so once we’re able to, like, reassure them and make them feel…
149 00:12:15.200 ⇒ 00:12:19.299 Demilade Agboola: smooth up all these things, I feel like that’ll be… it’ll be in the bag.
150 00:12:22.610 ⇒ 00:12:25.419 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool.
151 00:12:29.340 ⇒ 00:12:31.199 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I see Zoran’s update.
152 00:12:31.710 ⇒ 00:12:34.660 Uttam Kumaran: Seems like you and,
153 00:12:35.950 ⇒ 00:12:38.859 Uttam Kumaran: You, Greg, and Zoran are working well, so that’s great.
154 00:12:39.670 ⇒ 00:12:41.930 Uttam Kumaran: I’m glad.
155 00:12:42.110 ⇒ 00:12:47.849 Uttam Kumaran: That’s great. He needs help making Google Sheet reports look… look pretty.
156 00:12:49.180 ⇒ 00:12:50.689 Uttam Kumaran: I’m happy to help with that.
157 00:12:51.460 ⇒ 00:12:56.099 Greg Stoutenburg: I don’t have the context on that. Today we worked together to put ire for Eden.
158 00:12:56.580 ⇒ 00:12:57.250 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
159 00:12:57.590 ⇒ 00:13:01.579 Greg Stoutenburg: Which is, I assume, probably his worried about.
160 00:13:01.740 ⇒ 00:13:06.240 Greg Stoutenburg: I don’t know if that’s related to the Google Sheet thing or not.
161 00:13:07.140 ⇒ 00:13:07.830 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
162 00:13:08.740 ⇒ 00:13:14.860 Uttam Kumaran: Cool. And then maybe I’ll… I can talk about.
163 00:13:15.450 ⇒ 00:13:17.099 Greg Stoutenburg: my side, and then I can…
164 00:13:17.130 ⇒ 00:13:25.119 Uttam Kumaran: We can go to you, Pranav. So on my side, we just had a CTA renewal come in. It’s about $100,000 for…
165 00:13:25.900 ⇒ 00:13:28.309 Uttam Kumaran: 12 weeks, which is sick.
166 00:13:28.540 ⇒ 00:13:30.720 Uttam Kumaran: That may be our biggest deal.
167 00:13:32.420 ⇒ 00:13:33.280 Uttam Kumaran: Ever.
168 00:13:34.460 ⇒ 00:13:35.450 Uttam Kumaran: I think.
169 00:13:35.600 ⇒ 00:13:36.790 Uttam Kumaran: That’s awesome.
170 00:13:37.000 ⇒ 00:13:41.619 Uttam Kumaran: And we should… we should start to drive towards a renewal for the rest of the year.
171 00:13:41.790 ⇒ 00:13:48.109 Uttam Kumaran: And CES is a huge thing, so I also asked her a few weeks ago, she said she can get everyone tickets.
172 00:13:48.230 ⇒ 00:13:50.229 Uttam Kumaran: We want to go next year as a crew.
173 00:13:50.700 ⇒ 00:13:51.960 Uttam Kumaran: That could be fine.
174 00:13:53.790 ⇒ 00:14:00.349 Uttam Kumaran: And then Robert’s now involved in Element, which is great, because Robert is really good at his job, and…
175 00:14:00.590 ⇒ 00:14:05.749 Uttam Kumaran: It takes the heat off me, so he’s helping out there.
176 00:14:05.850 ⇒ 00:14:10.979 Uttam Kumaran: I would say I’m worried about… Ashwini is struggling, so we gave some feedback today.
177 00:14:11.260 ⇒ 00:14:19.209 Uttam Kumaran: I… I feel like the feedback meeting went well. I think he’s gonna roll off EP for a bit while he just, like.
178 00:14:19.330 ⇒ 00:14:23.369 Uttam Kumaran: I think he’s having strugg… he’s struggling to balance around 3 clients, and…
179 00:14:23.480 ⇒ 00:14:35.979 Uttam Kumaran: sort of communicate effectively, and part of the… part of the lack of communication is leading him to do a lot of, like, unnecessary work, and we’re trying to short-circuit it, so I feel like today was a good
180 00:14:36.200 ⇒ 00:14:38.399 Uttam Kumaran: Point to give feedback.
181 00:14:38.540 ⇒ 00:14:49.130 Uttam Kumaran: You know, one thing that’s challenging sometimes is, like, we’re… we don’t… I don’t do one-on-ones with everybody. Like, there was a point in time in the company where I was meeting everybody every week.
182 00:14:49.340 ⇒ 00:14:58.839 Uttam Kumaran: Like, in a one-on-one setting, so it’s really… it’s hard to do that now. I think groups like this is really good, and then we’re gonna do more, like, pointed…
183 00:14:59.260 ⇒ 00:15:11.150 Uttam Kumaran: pointed feedbacks with people that are really struggling the most. So on both ends, I’m, like, trying to spend time with the people that are, like, accelerating, and then I’m trying to just catch anyone who’s struggling.
184 00:15:11.310 ⇒ 00:15:24.899 Uttam Kumaran: And then folks in the middle, I think their job is to just try to drive up. And, I think this is a great, you know, meeting that, that, like, sort of hopefully tackles a couple things, but my door is always open if people want to chat.
185 00:15:25.020 ⇒ 00:15:30.290 Uttam Kumaran: And then the other thing I’m worried about is, like, one, just, like, continue to keep meetings to a minimum.
186 00:15:30.440 ⇒ 00:15:46.139 Uttam Kumaran: I can, like, literally, like, move planets if I have, like, 4 hours a day of free time, and sometimes it’s hard to get that. And the days that I do have that, I do move a shitload of things along, and it reminds me that, like.
187 00:15:46.530 ⇒ 00:15:53.250 Uttam Kumaran: I should stay out of meetings as much. Although meetings… some meetings are hard to cancel, and I like seeing everybody every day, so I’m, like.
188 00:15:53.560 ⇒ 00:16:01.250 Uttam Kumaran: having this internal struggle there. And then, I’m also worried if our AI team… if our delivery team is relying on AI enough.
189 00:16:01.420 ⇒ 00:16:11.660 Uttam Kumaran: I found some ways that are non-intuitive to use AI for data analysis, the configure tools, like, all sorts of things, and…
190 00:16:12.030 ⇒ 00:16:23.350 Uttam Kumaran: I’m trying to think about ways to show that. I took that worry today, and I called Gabe, and I said, let’s split priorities. My job is going to be just to build
191 00:16:23.740 ⇒ 00:16:32.130 Uttam Kumaran: the ability to do a thing. Like, a good example is, like, I want to be able to query Snowflake from cursor, so that I could ask questions over data.
192 00:16:32.290 ⇒ 00:16:34.180 Uttam Kumaran: And so…
193 00:16:34.650 ⇒ 00:16:53.389 Uttam Kumaran: I set that up. My problem is that I can’t go one-on-one with all the people that do data work and, like, walk them through how to set it up. So Gabe is gonna start to do that. I think we’re gonna try to team that way. I still think it’s hard if you don’t comp on a call with somebody right now to, like, get to the aha moment with Kurser sometimes.
194 00:16:53.430 ⇒ 00:17:02.950 Uttam Kumaran: So I… and, I mean, I don’t… this is actually, like, Greg, I’m looking at you, maybe I should have you… you and, Gabe should talk about, like, what is a good, like, baseline
195 00:17:03.240 ⇒ 00:17:03.980 Uttam Kumaran: like.
196 00:17:04.160 ⇒ 00:17:20.379 Uttam Kumaran: if we were to do a little seminar, and I’m kind of… the way I’m kind of thinking about it is, at minimum, getting people into cursors, they can take on a couple of use cases that affect their job, and then eventually, I want to get people to the point where they’re able to build new use cases to support their teams.
197 00:17:20.710 ⇒ 00:17:26.160 Uttam Kumaran: But maybe Gabe is working on putting together a little agenda there, maybe we could run it by you for feedback.
198 00:17:27.180 ⇒ 00:17:30.730 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, I have ideas. I know the things that have been…
199 00:17:30.850 ⇒ 00:17:37.730 Greg Stoutenburg: aha moments for me, partly inspired by you sharing the video in the first place, so I’d be happy to help with that. I have thoughts.
200 00:17:38.240 ⇒ 00:17:45.879 Uttam Kumaran: Cool, yeah, I know some people, like, will watch those videos and, like, just explore. Some people, I think, are nervous, or maybe they try and they hit an immediate hiccup, and…
201 00:17:46.110 ⇒ 00:17:52.390 Uttam Kumaran: I feel like for… given how new this is, maybe it’s just best to do, like, in a small group setting, but we’ll work towards that.
202 00:17:52.910 ⇒ 00:17:53.390 Greg Stoutenburg: Sure.
203 00:17:53.390 ⇒ 00:17:57.190 Uttam Kumaran: And I don’t know, did Pranav drop? Maybe.
204 00:17:58.890 ⇒ 00:18:01.789 Uttam Kumaran: Let me ask if he’s coming back.
205 00:18:08.150 ⇒ 00:18:12.880 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, I think he’s, figure out something for Lilo, but,
206 00:18:13.330 ⇒ 00:18:20.500 Uttam Kumaran: One thing that he had a question about, which is, how does… how does he… how do you handle ad hoc requests from a client?
207 00:18:20.800 ⇒ 00:18:24.920 Uttam Kumaran: Maybe that’s something we could briefly… talk about.
208 00:18:26.060 ⇒ 00:18:30.829 Uttam Kumaran: For me, the biggest thing is, like, one is, like, you should always kind of say, like.
209 00:18:31.880 ⇒ 00:18:35.689 Uttam Kumaran: Let me get back to you and find out how to weave this into our…
210 00:18:35.920 ⇒ 00:18:48.929 Uttam Kumaran: like, structure. It’s actually great when a client asks us to do more stuff for them. However, we need to make sure that we’re doing it efficiently, we’re not just taking on more scope that puts the existing scope at risk.
211 00:18:49.460 ⇒ 00:18:59.819 Uttam Kumaran: So a good way to do that is just to continuously build a backlog, and then during the next, like, week of, like, putting together a plan, you get clarity from a client on what the priority is.
212 00:19:00.050 ⇒ 00:19:09.289 Uttam Kumaran: For example, some clients will be like, okay, I need this thing, and you’re like, hey, we’re already kind of full on bandwidth, what should we do? Versus if you just say yes.
213 00:19:09.430 ⇒ 00:19:23.139 Uttam Kumaran: and take it on, then you kind of jam yourself. And I think for Pranav’s client, for Lilo, they’re always asking about new things, and I think he needs to find a way to just take that, slot it in, make sure they feel heard.
214 00:19:23.280 ⇒ 00:19:26.619 Uttam Kumaran: But then also leave maybe some time for ad hoc.
215 00:19:26.720 ⇒ 00:19:29.909 Uttam Kumaran: And tell them, hey, it seems like there’s a lot of ad hoc going here.
216 00:19:30.200 ⇒ 00:19:37.169 Uttam Kumaran: I would say we typically leave 10-15% of time for ad hoc or maintenance stuff. Maybe his team should increase that.
217 00:19:37.340 ⇒ 00:19:43.969 Uttam Kumaran: And so, that’s kind of, like, what my suggestion, if he watches this video, that’s probably my… what my suggestion would be on, like.
218 00:19:44.630 ⇒ 00:19:48.280 Uttam Kumaran: how to handle that. It’s like, you still want to be like, yes, we will do that.
219 00:19:48.550 ⇒ 00:19:49.920 Uttam Kumaran: On this cadence.
220 00:19:50.190 ⇒ 00:19:55.089 Uttam Kumaran: And if your team is mostly ad hoc, then you need to do a lot less planned work.
221 00:19:55.210 ⇒ 00:19:58.249 Uttam Kumaran: And then you need to work with your client on those trade-offs, basically.
222 00:20:02.550 ⇒ 00:20:03.440 Uttam Kumaran: Cool.
223 00:20:05.140 ⇒ 00:20:16.169 Uttam Kumaran: What else? I mean, my only… my only other topic was, like, if we wanted to talk about any other, like, delivery source deals, but I know both Zoran and, Pranav aren’t here, so…
224 00:20:16.590 ⇒ 00:20:25.459 Uttam Kumaran: Let me know, guys, if there’s any other topics, like, we want to discuss, or… or things that we want to chat, or stuff you want me to show, anything.
225 00:20:28.300 ⇒ 00:20:29.800 Greg Stoutenburg: Is README officially out?
226 00:20:30.060 ⇒ 00:20:31.810 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, for at least a month.
227 00:20:32.710 ⇒ 00:20:33.300 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay.
228 00:20:33.910 ⇒ 00:20:34.600 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay.
229 00:20:34.600 ⇒ 00:20:36.730 Uttam Kumaran: Robert’s gonna get back to her next month.
230 00:20:37.330 ⇒ 00:20:44.899 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, alright, sounds good. Yeah, I, well, because I saw… the reason I’m asking is because I saw that the internal channel was removed, but…
231 00:20:44.900 ⇒ 00:20:45.910 Uttam Kumaran: I just archived it.
232 00:20:45.910 ⇒ 00:20:48.789 Greg Stoutenburg: And I was like, oh, okay, got it, alright.
233 00:20:48.790 ⇒ 00:20:53.760 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so I don’t delete… I’m not… we’re not deleting anything. You can… if it comes back, you can just re…
234 00:20:54.210 ⇒ 00:20:55.349 Uttam Kumaran: Bring it back.
235 00:20:55.720 ⇒ 00:20:56.270 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay.
236 00:20:56.270 ⇒ 00:20:57.020 Uttam Kumaran: I just, like.
237 00:20:57.020 ⇒ 00:20:57.580 Greg Stoutenburg: Boom.
238 00:20:57.910 ⇒ 00:21:01.259 Uttam Kumaran: I just want to get out of… get it out of my, like, left bar, basically.
239 00:21:01.400 ⇒ 00:21:02.330 Uttam Kumaran: So it’s not there.
240 00:21:02.330 ⇒ 00:21:04.350 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, there’s a lot of things over there.
241 00:21:04.730 ⇒ 00:21:05.450 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah. Yeah.
242 00:21:05.450 ⇒ 00:21:06.060 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
243 00:21:08.360 ⇒ 00:21:12.380 Uttam Kumaran: What else?
244 00:21:20.440 ⇒ 00:21:27.410 Uttam Kumaran: If we don’t have anything, I can talk a little bit about some stuff we’ve added to the vault, that’s helpful to go through.
245 00:21:28.820 ⇒ 00:21:30.680 Uttam Kumaran: Maybe I could do that for a sec.
246 00:21:30.940 ⇒ 00:21:33.960 Uttam Kumaran: So a couple things that we added,
247 00:21:34.380 ⇒ 00:21:49.790 Uttam Kumaran: One is, and I tested this today, is I built a HubSpot, like, MCP. This is more for the sales team to, like, chat with and edit stuff in HubSpot. But a couple other things that Robert did, is he added,
248 00:21:49.960 ⇒ 00:21:52.760 Uttam Kumaran: A bunch of guides on how to do pricing.
249 00:21:53.160 ⇒ 00:22:04.349 Uttam Kumaran: So, you can actually put in an SOW and have AI help you do the pricing, and this is all his brain on, like, how we price for things.
250 00:22:04.520 ⇒ 00:22:05.750 Uttam Kumaran: And so…
251 00:22:06.090 ⇒ 00:22:12.260 Uttam Kumaran: A good way to use this is, like, if you’re writing an SOW, you can consider just having it get priced
252 00:22:12.430 ⇒ 00:22:14.180 Uttam Kumaran: You don’t have to wait for…
253 00:22:14.490 ⇒ 00:22:19.600 Uttam Kumaran: sales to go do that. We also have all of our, like, services here.
254 00:22:21.170 ⇒ 00:22:29.870 Uttam Kumaran: So it’s really helpful now that if you’re thinking about proposing something to a client, you can actually just work with Cursor to understand not only what our services are, how much they cost.
255 00:22:29.980 ⇒ 00:22:30.990 Uttam Kumaran: So, like…
256 00:22:31.120 ⇒ 00:22:38.779 Uttam Kumaran: Again, we’re trying to pack this repo full of, like, all of what’s in our brain about how we typically do things and the work we do.
257 00:22:39.160 ⇒ 00:22:44.899 Uttam Kumaran: There’s also a lot of things here in, like, for writing SOWs.
258 00:22:45.090 ⇒ 00:22:48.910 Uttam Kumaran: And so this is probably the next thing I want to highlight is,
259 00:22:49.100 ⇒ 00:22:55.210 Uttam Kumaran: Robert worked on an entire framework for writing SOWs, and it has a ton of stuff.
260 00:22:55.390 ⇒ 00:23:00.790 Uttam Kumaran: like, every single component has a deeper plan.
261 00:23:01.070 ⇒ 00:23:07.290 Uttam Kumaran: There are different things around, How to improve, like.
262 00:23:07.540 ⇒ 00:23:15.820 Uttam Kumaran: the SOW writing process. There’s also a lot of examples here. So we have all of our core SOWs.
263 00:23:15.950 ⇒ 00:23:20.400 Uttam Kumaran: With some… with some examples of, like, what not to do, also.
264 00:23:20.730 ⇒ 00:23:31.240 Uttam Kumaran: So, this is an example of an Insomnia Cookies one that, like, didn’t go through, and so he’s went through and actually wrote comments, so it should help steer your AI to avoid certain things.
265 00:23:31.540 ⇒ 00:23:35.009 Uttam Kumaran: So I’m… I’m gonna use this today.
266 00:23:35.190 ⇒ 00:23:39.420 Uttam Kumaran: And, ideally, this should save me…
267 00:23:40.060 ⇒ 00:23:49.170 Uttam Kumaran: like, I already wasn’t spending so much time, but also I feel like I was almost always, like, a little bit nervous, because I was waiting for reviews.
268 00:23:49.550 ⇒ 00:23:51.649 Uttam Kumaran: I actually think we could probably
269 00:23:52.150 ⇒ 00:23:56.239 Uttam Kumaran: ship SOWs in less than 30 minutes now that are accurate.
270 00:23:56.510 ⇒ 00:23:59.339 Uttam Kumaran: Because of all the stuff that’s in here now, so…
271 00:23:59.440 ⇒ 00:24:07.549 Uttam Kumaran: I would suggest that if you are writing SOWs, to just continue to use Cursor and to tell it to take a look at the sales
272 00:24:07.910 ⇒ 00:24:09.070 Uttam Kumaran: frameworks.
273 00:24:09.390 ⇒ 00:24:09.960 Uttam Kumaran: In.
274 00:24:09.960 ⇒ 00:24:12.309 Greg Stoutenburg: You, Tom, is there… is there a prompt for this?
275 00:24:12.510 ⇒ 00:24:14.240 Greg Stoutenburg: So, can I go, I need.
276 00:24:14.240 ⇒ 00:24:16.700 Uttam Kumaran: You should just say, I need to write an SOW.
277 00:24:17.420 ⇒ 00:24:25.139 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, you just literally say, I need to write an SOW, and this system here is gonna… this is what’s gonna indicate
278 00:24:25.460 ⇒ 00:24:26.630 Uttam Kumaran: How to write it.
279 00:24:26.650 ⇒ 00:24:29.290 Greg Stoutenburg: So, your cursor will go say…
280 00:24:29.580 ⇒ 00:24:31.130 Uttam Kumaran: Check this, check this.
281 00:24:31.130 ⇒ 00:24:31.490 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay.
282 00:24:31.490 ⇒ 00:24:33.809 Uttam Kumaran: Yes, check this, check this, check this. Yeah.
283 00:24:34.420 ⇒ 00:24:36.449 Greg Stoutenburg: Got it, okay. That’s what I was looking for.
284 00:24:37.480 ⇒ 00:24:41.960 Uttam Kumaran: And then the other thing, I also did is,
285 00:24:42.460 ⇒ 00:24:46.430 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t, maybe it’s in,
286 00:24:49.590 ⇒ 00:24:53.880 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so I built a system to upload, transcripts.
287 00:24:54.300 ⇒ 00:25:00.900 Uttam Kumaran: So, Greg, we’re, like… I’m… I’m actually… Cool. I’m gonna throw Sam under the bus, but he has to review my PR, but
288 00:25:01.300 ⇒ 00:25:05.440 Uttam Kumaran: the system is there, and I backfilled almost, like, 4,000 meetings.
289 00:25:05.570 ⇒ 00:25:06.700 Uttam Kumaran: Into here.
290 00:25:06.820 ⇒ 00:25:09.969 Uttam Kumaran: So, ideally, yes, you should be able to
291 00:25:10.190 ⇒ 00:25:21.780 Uttam Kumaran: do what you asked me last week, which was, I’d like to go to a meeting, and then within 30 minutes or so, the transcript is there, and then I can say blah blah blah. So, like, that should be there by this week.
292 00:25:22.220 ⇒ 00:25:23.020 Greg Stoutenburg: That’s awesome.
293 00:25:23.180 ⇒ 00:25:24.230 Greg Stoutenburg: Alright, thanks.
294 00:25:24.230 ⇒ 00:25:28.070 Uttam Kumaran: I think that’s sick. I think that’s sick. Yeah. Saves me, like, tons of time.
295 00:25:28.070 ⇒ 00:25:28.500 Greg Stoutenburg: That’s great.
296 00:25:28.500 ⇒ 00:25:30.109 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
297 00:25:31.210 ⇒ 00:25:39.500 Uttam Kumaran: And so ideally, we’ll also start to use it to, like, automatically take actions. Like, maybe after a meeting, if there’s a clear next step.
298 00:25:39.640 ⇒ 00:25:51.760 Uttam Kumaran: maybe the AI could automatically do that and ping it to you. So, the other thing that we’re working on is, like, is basically, improving the Brainforge assistant.
299 00:25:51.890 ⇒ 00:25:55.279 Uttam Kumaran: And so, this is something that maybe I will…
300 00:25:55.800 ⇒ 00:26:00.920 Uttam Kumaran: also share more with the company about. But, like…
301 00:26:01.240 ⇒ 00:26:08.109 Uttam Kumaran: You could say, let’s just… let’s just do this, at Rain Forge, System is not in this channel.
302 00:26:08.780 ⇒ 00:26:12.060 Uttam Kumaran: So…
303 00:26:26.930 ⇒ 00:26:34.849 Uttam Kumaran: So, you can now use the BrainForge Assistant, basically, as an example. It’s like… it’s… think of it just like hitting ChatGPT.
304 00:26:35.150 ⇒ 00:26:39.219 Uttam Kumaran: So it will take your question, it will…
305 00:26:39.640 ⇒ 00:26:44.060 Uttam Kumaran: Go, like, do whatever you ask it to, and then it’s gonna come back with…
306 00:26:44.070 ⇒ 00:27:02.019 Uttam Kumaran: answers. And so, I’m continuously starting… now that, like, the goal here was not to recreate ChatGBT necessarily, but, like, I wanted to hook up the assistant, so now, if you have things that the assistant would be helpful for you in your day-to-day, tell me. I will build it for you. And then…
307 00:27:02.170 ⇒ 00:27:15.900 Uttam Kumaran: After a few more of these, I will then show you how to go build it with… without me. And so, I’m building some stuff for Shaysu, like, around requesting some things for the operations team. A couple of things that come to mind for me is, like.
308 00:27:16.030 ⇒ 00:27:21.700 Uttam Kumaran: So as you see here, it’s answered the question, what works? It’s giving you a bunch of the sources.
309 00:27:22.430 ⇒ 00:27:32.720 Uttam Kumaran: This is really, really helpful. A couple of things that come to mind for me is, like, after my meetings that I’m a part of, it would be great to get,
310 00:27:32.900 ⇒ 00:27:37.269 Uttam Kumaran: like, a short, like, action items list directly in Slack.
311 00:27:37.380 ⇒ 00:27:42.999 Uttam Kumaran: DM to me, that would be really nice. It would also be great if I could hit the Brainforge assistant.
312 00:27:43.180 ⇒ 00:27:48.500 Uttam Kumaran: directly in Slack, instead of going to Cursor, for questions about my client.
313 00:27:51.290 ⇒ 00:27:57.739 Uttam Kumaran: I feel like I had a bunch of ideas, I’m kind of brain farting, but, like, if you have those, just tell me, I will just build them for you.
314 00:27:57.890 ⇒ 00:28:05.580 Uttam Kumaran: And then, as I… as the building process gets easier and easier, I will just show you how to go build them yourself and test them at the end.
315 00:28:05.860 ⇒ 00:28:10.409 Uttam Kumaran: So… Please ask me for more features.
316 00:28:12.620 ⇒ 00:28:18.079 Uttam Kumaran: The… let’s see, we have a little bit more time? Oh, we have, like, 2 more minutes?
317 00:28:19.980 ⇒ 00:28:20.840 Clarence Stone: I think we have another…
318 00:28:20.840 ⇒ 00:28:21.829 Uttam Kumaran: 10 more minutes?
319 00:28:22.290 ⇒ 00:28:26.440 Uttam Kumaran: One thing I… another thing I was working on, is…
320 00:28:26.670 ⇒ 00:28:31.589 Uttam Kumaran: And you guys may also find this helpful, is if you’re working on stuff in Excel.
321 00:28:31.690 ⇒ 00:28:35.390 Uttam Kumaran: There is a claud in Excel,
322 00:28:35.620 ⇒ 00:28:38.570 Uttam Kumaran: Add-in that is really, really helpful.
323 00:28:38.670 ⇒ 00:28:53.259 Uttam Kumaran: Because I don’t want to do Excel shit anymore, and I had a pretty clear ask of, like, I wanted to create this new model, and it built it, and it’s doing, like, some complicated COUNTIFs and SUMIFS, and I…
324 00:28:53.470 ⇒ 00:28:59.139 Uttam Kumaran: use the sidebar to do it. I don’t think Gemini and spreadsheets is good enough, but…
325 00:28:59.500 ⇒ 00:29:06.000 Uttam Kumaran: this is pretty good. So, highly encourage, if you’re doing any Excel work, to use this.
326 00:29:11.530 ⇒ 00:29:15.879 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, the last piece maybe I’ll share is if you’re using,
327 00:29:16.670 ⇒ 00:29:20.709 Uttam Kumaran: If you’re using cursor… let me just pull… pull it up.
328 00:29:20.910 ⇒ 00:29:26.370 Uttam Kumaran: there’s a… there’s basically a thing called MCPs, which is just a way for you to
329 00:29:26.670 ⇒ 00:29:32.149 Uttam Kumaran: for your cursor to sort of just, like, basically hook into, like, the APIs for different products.
330 00:29:32.330 ⇒ 00:29:35.819 Uttam Kumaran: As you see here, on my cursor.
331 00:29:35.930 ⇒ 00:29:39.409 Uttam Kumaran: I have, like, several MCPs that I’m using.
332 00:29:39.570 ⇒ 00:29:44.460 Uttam Kumaran: Including Amplitude, Figma, GitHub, HubSpot, Notion.
333 00:29:44.630 ⇒ 00:29:50.970 Uttam Kumaran: I highly recommend, if you’re using a tool often, to just Google, like, does X have an MCP server?
334 00:29:51.130 ⇒ 00:30:02.230 Uttam Kumaran: But what you’ll also find is even if it doesn’t, like, Snowflake doesn’t have an MCP server, but Snowflake has a CLI, so I just gave the CLI to my cursor, and I said, hey, I want to
335 00:30:02.380 ⇒ 00:30:11.739 Uttam Kumaran: I want to start to access this database via my cursor, walk me through the steps to make that happen, and it worked. And so, highly encourage
336 00:30:12.070 ⇒ 00:30:16.499 Uttam Kumaran: Trying to leverage more programmatic ways of doing some of the things that
337 00:30:16.630 ⇒ 00:30:18.830 Uttam Kumaran: That you’re doing every day, so you can…
338 00:30:19.290 ⇒ 00:30:25.010 Uttam Kumaran: You know, spend more time with clients, so… Cool.
339 00:30:25.170 ⇒ 00:30:26.390 Uttam Kumaran: That’s all I had.
340 00:30:28.980 ⇒ 00:30:31.620 Uttam Kumaran: Any thoughts or questions or anything?
341 00:30:37.980 ⇒ 00:30:53.920 Greg Stoutenburg: I don’t know if, I mean, it’s possible that Cursor already had this ability and I didn’t know it, but something that won me over to Cursor is that, I’d been using the Claude CLI just with the Mac terminal when I was in a previous role, and I was like.
342 00:30:54.130 ⇒ 00:31:06.459 Greg Stoutenburg: I was doing things like, you know, as product manager, I had to write a release post, so I would do things like fetch all of the GitHub issues marked as done in this release cycle, you know, like, and try to just, like.
343 00:31:06.460 ⇒ 00:31:18.409 Greg Stoutenburg: have it tee up, like a release post, honestly. I didn’t spend enough time on it, it never worked well. But, it would fetch the issues, and then give a brief description, and sort of, like, summarize them for me.
344 00:31:18.550 ⇒ 00:31:28.779 Greg Stoutenburg: So that was alright, but something that has been, I think, really awesome about using Cursor is that it combines the, it combines the view of your repo
345 00:31:28.930 ⇒ 00:31:45.209 Greg Stoutenburg: which you can’t get in the terminal, right? Combines the view of the repo that you get from VS Code with that additional, tooling capability to tap into whatever resource. And so I’m like, alright, these two together is actually really sweet. And so that’s, I spent a little time with it, so cursor fan now.
346 00:31:45.730 ⇒ 00:31:49.830 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, and you can actually kick off Claude Code sessions in your cursor terminal.
347 00:31:50.060 ⇒ 00:31:50.730 Uttam Kumaran: So…
348 00:31:50.730 ⇒ 00:31:53.920 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, so there’s another thing too, right? It’s like, yeah, I mean, now these things are all.
349 00:31:53.920 ⇒ 00:32:05.469 Uttam Kumaran: Like, I would rather have something where I just get a little bit more control, but you can do all of your terminal activities right in there. I think similar, like, on the data side, right, we’re, like, coming in and out of doing things and moving them around.
350 00:32:05.610 ⇒ 00:32:18.099 Uttam Kumaran: In software engineering, you’re sort of, like, just building one massive thing, so I feel like for our workflow, it’s kind of nice, you know, for pasting files in and interacting with, like, a file base as well, so…
351 00:32:18.640 ⇒ 00:32:19.230 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.
352 00:32:21.550 ⇒ 00:32:22.350 Uttam Kumaran: Cool.
353 00:32:22.910 ⇒ 00:32:24.800 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, guys, that’s all I had.
354 00:32:26.470 ⇒ 00:32:28.329 Greg Stoutenburg: Cool. Alright, thanks all.
355 00:32:28.330 ⇒ 00:32:29.410 Uttam Kumaran: Awesome. Thank you.
356 00:32:29.410 ⇒ 00:32:29.790 Greg Stoutenburg: Appreciate it.
357 00:32:29.790 ⇒ 00:32:30.270 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Thank you soon.