Meeting Title: Brainforge x Elizah Joy Setup Date: 2026-02-20 Meeting participants: Gabriel Lam, Elizah Joy
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1 00:00:50.570 ⇒ 00:00:51.730 Gabriel Lam: Hello.
2 00:00:52.780 ⇒ 00:00:53.920 Elizah Joy: How are you?
3 00:00:53.920 ⇒ 00:00:55.640 Gabriel Lam: I’m doing well, how are you?
4 00:00:56.200 ⇒ 00:00:57.420 Elizah Joy: I’m good.
5 00:00:57.690 ⇒ 00:01:00.239 Elizah Joy: It’s a bit busy, because it’s Friday.
6 00:01:00.240 ⇒ 00:01:01.310 Gabriel Lam: That’s fair.
7 00:01:04.180 ⇒ 00:01:06.770 Gabriel Lam: Yeah, it’s a long week this week.
8 00:01:07.210 ⇒ 00:01:09.920 Elizah Joy: Yeah, it is, it is.
9 00:01:10.080 ⇒ 00:01:10.660 Gabriel Lam: Yeah.
10 00:01:10.930 ⇒ 00:01:14.499 Gabriel Lam: Yeah, thank you for making time.
11 00:01:14.680 ⇒ 00:01:17.580 Gabriel Lam: I just wanted to make the round and see…
12 00:01:17.780 ⇒ 00:01:30.600 Gabriel Lam: If people needed help getting set up, and it sounds like you got stuff set up, but happy to run things through with you. Also, I know you have another meeting in 30 minutes, so we’ll try to speed things through.
13 00:01:32.510 ⇒ 00:01:38.740 Elizah Joy: Actually, just… that’s just a task for me to… a reminder task for me. I think this is my last meeting for today.
14 00:01:38.740 ⇒ 00:01:44.190 Gabriel Lam: Okay, amazing. Okay. Yeah, I, first of all, am…
15 00:01:44.560 ⇒ 00:01:54.410 Gabriel Lam: just curious, like, how things are set up for you. I… Sam had just recorded a meeting, so that I can send that to you.
16 00:01:54.680 ⇒ 00:01:56.320 Gabriel Lam: If that’s helpful…
17 00:01:56.600 ⇒ 00:02:08.220 Elizah Joy: Yeah, yeah, I think, yeah, that’ll be helpful. On my… I think, because Shashu was helping us, like, the ops team before setup.
18 00:02:08.850 ⇒ 00:02:11.729 Elizah Joy: cursor, and then GitHub.
19 00:02:11.730 ⇒ 00:02:12.050 Gabriel Lam: Yup.
20 00:02:12.050 ⇒ 00:02:17.350 Elizah Joy: I did… I haven’t, I believe I haven’t loaded in GitHub yet.
21 00:02:17.680 ⇒ 00:02:18.370 Gabriel Lam: Yes.
22 00:02:18.930 ⇒ 00:02:22.509 Elizah Joy: So that’s, I haven’t done that yet.
23 00:02:22.730 ⇒ 00:02:23.110 Gabriel Lam: Okay.
24 00:02:23.370 ⇒ 00:02:36.770 Elizah Joy: we were, like, for this week, our original plan was for Sheshu to help us go through with that setup phase, but, not sure if you’re aware, but, Shashu’s not with Brainforge anymore.
25 00:02:36.770 ⇒ 00:02:37.700 Gabriel Lam: Okay. So…
26 00:02:37.980 ⇒ 00:02:39.589 Elizah Joy: Yeah, that’s…
27 00:02:40.210 ⇒ 00:02:48.779 Elizah Joy: So that’s why it got paused for this week, and it just transitioned back to using ChatGPT, which is not ideal.
28 00:02:48.780 ⇒ 00:02:49.600 Gabriel Lam: Yeah.
29 00:02:49.920 ⇒ 00:02:50.690 Elizah Joy: But yeah.
30 00:02:51.150 ⇒ 00:02:58.330 Gabriel Lam: No problem. Yeah, I think I also have news. I will be winding down soon, so…
31 00:02:58.460 ⇒ 00:03:05.690 Gabriel Lam: I’ve told Rico, and I’ve told you, Tom, but just letting people know slowly that I will also be leaving soon.
32 00:03:06.120 ⇒ 00:03:14.930 Gabriel Lam: But yeah, before that, I just wanted to make sure people got set up, and so they could still do the work they need to do after I’m gone.
33 00:03:15.710 ⇒ 00:03:22.669 Gabriel Lam: Yeah, first of all, happy to run it through with you. Sam has recorded a wonderful
34 00:03:23.900 ⇒ 00:03:27.100 Gabriel Lam: recording, but I can walk it through with you.
35 00:03:27.240 ⇒ 00:03:29.130 Elizah Joy: And if you ever need help.
36 00:03:29.220 ⇒ 00:03:34.520 Gabriel Lam: you can… refer to the video. I think it’s very, very clear for setting up the
37 00:03:35.950 ⇒ 00:03:38.900 Gabriel Lam: If you don’t mind sharing screen, we can walk it through.
38 00:03:40.350 ⇒ 00:03:43.209 Elizah Joy: Should I share a cursor, or…
39 00:03:43.210 ⇒ 00:03:47.519 Gabriel Lam: Yes, you can share the whole screen, you can share a cursor, both are good.
40 00:03:49.260 ⇒ 00:03:51.960 Elizah Joy: Share an old screen.
41 00:04:05.040 ⇒ 00:04:06.200 Elizah Joy: I can’t…
42 00:04:09.240 ⇒ 00:04:12.940 Elizah Joy: Oh, wait, I don’t think that’s the entire screen. Wait a minute.
43 00:04:19.940 ⇒ 00:04:21.959 Elizah Joy: Okay, I think you can see.
44 00:04:22.810 ⇒ 00:04:23.790 Gabriel Lam: Okay.
45 00:04:24.120 ⇒ 00:04:29.260 Gabriel Lam: Yeah. So, it seems like that’s set up, and…
46 00:04:29.360 ⇒ 00:04:32.069 Gabriel Lam: Oh, you have a big screen.
47 00:04:32.430 ⇒ 00:04:35.519 Elizah Joy: Yeah, because I do a lot of…
48 00:04:35.860 ⇒ 00:04:42.799 Elizah Joy: multitasking on a day-to-day basis. So yeah, I do have… hopefully you can, because…
49 00:04:42.800 ⇒ 00:04:43.590 Gabriel Lam: Yes.
50 00:04:43.590 ⇒ 00:04:45.479 Elizah Joy: It looks smaller.
51 00:04:45.680 ⇒ 00:04:47.910 Gabriel Lam: Yes, let me try to see if I can…
52 00:04:50.960 ⇒ 00:04:54.320 Elizah Joy: I think what will be helpful is just…
53 00:04:55.590 ⇒ 00:04:59.530 Elizah Joy: Let me just share a cursor, if that’s easier.
54 00:04:59.530 ⇒ 00:05:00.350 Gabriel Lam: work, too.
55 00:05:06.220 ⇒ 00:05:06.980 Elizah Joy: Okay.
56 00:05:07.770 ⇒ 00:05:11.250 Elizah Joy: Okay, yep, this is cursor. Okay. The only…
57 00:05:12.240 ⇒ 00:05:17.570 Elizah Joy: thing, I think, on my end is that I am confused on how
58 00:05:17.920 ⇒ 00:05:22.870 Elizah Joy: it works on the backend. I add in things? How do I…
59 00:05:22.980 ⇒ 00:05:25.780 Gabriel Lam: Give it prompts or something like that, because it…
60 00:05:25.940 ⇒ 00:05:33.329 Elizah Joy: how I see it is, like, whenever a team member who, shows their, like, what they do using cursor, it’s very different, like.
61 00:05:33.330 ⇒ 00:05:36.810 Gabriel Lam: Mmm. So, no problem.
62 00:05:37.910 ⇒ 00:05:45.669 Gabriel Lam: Let’s go to… Let’s open all on the top right. I wonder why I can’t annotate.
63 00:05:45.790 ⇒ 00:05:54.730 Gabriel Lam: But on the top right, you have those 3 panels. I’d just like you to click those three panels, those three buttons, not the settings, yeah, all three of them.
64 00:05:55.110 ⇒ 00:05:55.640 Elizah Joy: It’s…
65 00:05:57.170 ⇒ 00:06:04.030 Gabriel Lam: the top… Yes, all the Asian sidebar, the panel, and the… Yes.
66 00:06:04.030 ⇒ 00:06:05.779 Elizah Joy: Oh, okay, okay.
67 00:06:05.780 ⇒ 00:06:07.870 Gabriel Lam: Okay, and so it seems like…
68 00:06:08.300 ⇒ 00:06:14.329 Gabriel Lam: Did you have a chance to get onto the Brainforge platform, or is that something you haven’t been able to do yet?
69 00:06:14.970 ⇒ 00:06:24.779 Elizah Joy: Not… I don’t think so, I haven’t done that yet. You mean by, joining Brainforge platform, like, just joining platform, or having that…
70 00:06:24.780 ⇒ 00:06:29.429 Gabriel Lam: On… on the side. Okay, so what we can do is… let me just pull it up.
71 00:06:30.140 ⇒ 00:06:35.920 Gabriel Lam: No problem. Sorry, one second…
72 00:06:53.630 ⇒ 00:06:59.840 Gabriel Lam: So, let’s close out of… The…
73 00:07:00.320 ⇒ 00:07:02.699 Gabriel Lam: It’s really a bit of a struggle.
74 00:07:02.890 ⇒ 00:07:06.390 Gabriel Lam: Without annotating. Oh, I see it, okay.
75 00:07:06.550 ⇒ 00:07:09.190 Gabriel Lam: Let’s close out of these two.
76 00:07:09.780 ⇒ 00:07:10.300 Elizah Joy: Okay.
77 00:07:10.300 ⇒ 00:07:13.429 Gabriel Lam: And we’ll start from scratch.
78 00:07:13.840 ⇒ 00:07:15.479 Gabriel Lam: You don’t have to save it, no.
79 00:07:16.560 ⇒ 00:07:16.950 Elizah Joy: Okay.
80 00:07:16.950 ⇒ 00:07:21.030 Gabriel Lam: Okay, so the first thing we’re gonna do is press clone repo.
81 00:07:21.340 ⇒ 00:07:24.330 Gabriel Lam: Which is… yes, that big button in the middle.
82 00:07:26.070 ⇒ 00:07:35.310 Gabriel Lam: And it should give you a few options. It should ask you to… I’m not seeing anything, so…
83 00:07:35.860 ⇒ 00:07:37.979 Elizah Joy: It’s not… not sure.
84 00:07:38.480 ⇒ 00:07:39.200 Gabriel Lam: Okay.
85 00:07:40.480 ⇒ 00:07:48.139 Gabriel Lam: So if that’s not working, we can try… Let’s see…
86 00:07:53.500 ⇒ 00:07:58.510 Elizah Joy: Like, why? Because I haven’t in, Are installed.
87 00:07:58.980 ⇒ 00:08:00.039 Gabriel Lam: What’s that?
88 00:08:01.060 ⇒ 00:08:03.290 Elizah Joy: Is that… is it because of…
89 00:08:04.210 ⇒ 00:08:13.740 Gabriel Lam: You don’t have to do it that way, you can have it… there’s multiple ways that people do it. I think if we were to look at the way Sam does it, it might be a little easier.
90 00:08:13.970 ⇒ 00:08:18.849 Gabriel Lam: How do I clear my drawings? So nothing’s showing up when you press clone repo, is that what it’s saying?
91 00:08:19.430 ⇒ 00:08:20.560 Elizah Joy: And…
92 00:08:21.390 ⇒ 00:08:27.550 Gabriel Lam: Okay, let’s install that. Let’s install… code
93 00:08:27.740 ⇒ 00:08:30.169 Gabriel Lam: So there’s that button, we can press that.
94 00:08:45.890 ⇒ 00:08:46.830 Gabriel Lam: Okay.
95 00:08:48.670 ⇒ 00:08:50.300 Elizah Joy: Yeah, I’ve installed it, I’m…
96 00:08:50.300 ⇒ 00:08:52.180 Gabriel Lam: Okay, and it’s still not doing anything?
97 00:08:53.420 ⇒ 00:08:57.269 Elizah Joy: Yeah, nothing… still? Not sure.
98 00:08:57.270 ⇒ 00:09:03.800 Gabriel Lam: Okay, give me a second, let’s see…
99 00:09:18.270 ⇒ 00:09:19.290 Gabriel Lam: Mmm…
100 00:09:23.150 ⇒ 00:09:24.330 Gabriel Lam: I see.
101 00:09:42.630 ⇒ 00:09:48.999 Gabriel Lam: So I think what we need to do is we need to install Git, which is the…
102 00:09:49.220 ⇒ 00:09:52.730 Gabriel Lam: the software that connects our computers to GitHub.
103 00:09:52.980 ⇒ 00:09:56.099 Gabriel Lam: If you go to, like, Chrome or any, like, Safari.
104 00:09:56.410 ⇒ 00:10:00.160 Gabriel Lam: you can just look for a Git installer, I think.
105 00:10:03.050 ⇒ 00:10:06.419 Gabriel Lam: It should look something like this if I share screen.
106 00:10:08.160 ⇒ 00:10:14.719 Gabriel Lam: So, I just looked up how to install Git on Mac.
107 00:10:15.210 ⇒ 00:10:16.790 Gabriel Lam: It’s just the first one.
108 00:10:16.920 ⇒ 00:10:20.640 Gabriel Lam: And I would press… this button?
109 00:10:23.590 ⇒ 00:10:26.579 Elizah Joy: Okay, hold up.
110 00:10:27.270 ⇒ 00:10:28.300 Gabriel Lam: No worries.
111 00:10:28.930 ⇒ 00:10:30.089 Elizah Joy: Which one is that?
112 00:10:30.090 ⇒ 00:10:35.650 Gabriel Lam: So, I… I just clicked the first… Oh. Here.
113 00:10:35.650 ⇒ 00:10:38.500 Elizah Joy: Is it the one with the red and white?
114 00:10:39.090 ⇒ 00:10:39.980 Elizah Joy: Yes.
115 00:10:41.550 ⇒ 00:10:44.399 Gabriel Lam: Do you see my Chrome screen?
116 00:10:45.070 ⇒ 00:10:50.820 Elizah Joy: I don’t think so. I don’t… Sweet.
117 00:10:58.060 ⇒ 00:10:59.269 Elizah Joy: Oh, okay, okay.
118 00:10:59.270 ⇒ 00:10:59.700 Gabriel Lam: Yes.
119 00:10:59.700 ⇒ 00:11:01.800 Elizah Joy: Yep, I can see your screen now.
120 00:11:01.800 ⇒ 00:11:05.919 Gabriel Lam: Yes. And so, I click this Homebrew button.
121 00:11:07.930 ⇒ 00:11:09.510 Elizah Joy: Okay…
122 00:11:10.070 ⇒ 00:11:18.900 Gabriel Lam: And… then… I think the easier way would be to download it from this button.
123 00:11:22.270 ⇒ 00:11:25.360 Elizah Joy: Okay, and then… Click that one.
124 00:11:25.970 ⇒ 00:11:26.570 Gabriel Lam: Yes.
125 00:11:29.470 ⇒ 00:11:36.520 Gabriel Lam: And I think… You can just… Download the package, the PKG.
126 00:11:36.700 ⇒ 00:11:44.770 Gabriel Lam: And run it on your… I’m on Windows, so it’s not gonna run, but you can run it and let me know. Or you can share a screen and I can walk you through.
127 00:11:49.020 ⇒ 00:11:50.139 Elizah Joy: It’s strange.
128 00:12:04.720 ⇒ 00:12:08.680 Elizah Joy: It’s saying command… command line tools are missing.
129 00:12:20.300 ⇒ 00:12:24.499 Gabriel Lam: So, let’s… if you can share your screen, your whole screen.
130 00:12:27.460 ⇒ 00:12:37.280 Gabriel Lam: and… That’s a… I, can you see my… okay, I, I will…
131 00:12:38.880 ⇒ 00:12:44.259 Gabriel Lam: I put this in the chat, if you can just copy that and run it.
132 00:12:45.040 ⇒ 00:12:46.060 Gabriel Lam: Here…
133 00:12:50.400 ⇒ 00:12:57.269 Gabriel Lam: So that… the x code, and then run it here. Let’s see how that works.
134 00:12:58.580 ⇒ 00:13:00.319 Elizah Joy: Where should I run it?
135 00:13:00.320 ⇒ 00:13:03.629 Gabriel Lam: In… on cursor, you can… you can… oop.
136 00:13:04.600 ⇒ 00:13:05.540 Elizah Joy: Oh, goodness.
137 00:13:05.540 ⇒ 00:13:07.450 Gabriel Lam: You can click into… you’re fine.
138 00:13:08.370 ⇒ 00:13:08.889 Elizah Joy: This is…
139 00:13:08.890 ⇒ 00:13:12.239 Gabriel Lam: into here. Yeah. And just paste it.
140 00:13:13.640 ⇒ 00:13:14.410 Elizah Joy: Anything?
141 00:13:19.280 ⇒ 00:13:21.470 Elizah Joy: Okay, and then I can reinstall it.
142 00:13:22.020 ⇒ 00:13:29.410 Gabriel Lam: Then you should be able to install it once. It needs to finish loading, because I think you’re installing command line tools right now.
143 00:13:29.650 ⇒ 00:13:31.760 Gabriel Lam: So you need to press enter.
144 00:13:34.700 ⇒ 00:13:35.450 Gabriel Lam: Yeah.
145 00:13:37.170 ⇒ 00:13:37.690 Elizah Joy: Pain.
146 00:13:40.110 ⇒ 00:13:41.429 Elizah Joy: Is that okay?
147 00:13:41.850 ⇒ 00:13:44.049 Gabriel Lam: Let me zoom in.
148 00:13:54.590 ⇒ 00:13:57.539 Gabriel Lam: Sorry, I can’t really read it right now.
149 00:13:58.040 ⇒ 00:13:59.750 Elizah Joy: Share cursor, I guess.
150 00:14:02.520 ⇒ 00:14:03.270 Elizah Joy: Okay.
151 00:14:03.650 ⇒ 00:14:05.220 Gabriel Lam: Install question.
152 00:14:08.310 ⇒ 00:14:09.230 Gabriel Lam: Okay.
153 00:14:17.120 ⇒ 00:14:17.960 Gabriel Lam: Hmm.
154 00:14:20.310 ⇒ 00:14:25.619 Gabriel Lam: Is there a dialogue box that shows up, or did anything else show up from that?
155 00:14:26.520 ⇒ 00:14:28.650 Elizah Joy: Oh, okay, next. Yes.
156 00:14:28.950 ⇒ 00:14:30.520 Elizah Joy: Okay, okay.
157 00:14:31.530 ⇒ 00:14:33.590 Elizah Joy: Okay, I think it’s installing.
158 00:14:33.860 ⇒ 00:14:34.540 Gabriel Lam: Okay.
159 00:14:47.500 ⇒ 00:14:51.080 Elizah Joy: Okay, in about, a few seconds.
160 00:14:51.080 ⇒ 00:14:51.620 Gabriel Lam: Yep.
161 00:15:38.750 ⇒ 00:15:41.180 Elizah Joy: Okay, it went back to 5 minutes.
162 00:15:41.450 ⇒ 00:15:42.450 Gabriel Lam: Oh, no.
163 00:15:42.620 ⇒ 00:15:44.870 Elizah Joy: I’m sorry about that.
164 00:15:45.800 ⇒ 00:15:46.680 Gabriel Lam: All good.
165 00:15:49.470 ⇒ 00:15:52.649 Elizah Joy: Here’s what it says. Yeah, 4 minutes.
166 00:15:53.470 ⇒ 00:15:54.270 Gabriel Lam: Okay.
167 00:15:56.380 ⇒ 00:15:59.919 Gabriel Lam: I see. The other option would be for,
168 00:16:01.590 ⇒ 00:16:05.949 Gabriel Lam: GitHub desktop, which might be a different option, if that’s faster.
169 00:16:06.190 ⇒ 00:16:09.149 Gabriel Lam: That’s what I shared with Rico.
170 00:16:09.780 ⇒ 00:16:13.080 Gabriel Lam: Yeah, different.
171 00:16:14.200 ⇒ 00:16:15.640 Elizah Joy: Like, yesterday?
172 00:16:18.330 ⇒ 00:16:18.900 Gabriel Lam: Yes.
173 00:16:20.890 ⇒ 00:16:22.810 Gabriel Lam: So…
174 00:16:26.120 ⇒ 00:16:27.100 Gabriel Lam: Here.
175 00:16:27.340 ⇒ 00:16:28.140 Gabriel Lam: If…
176 00:16:42.940 ⇒ 00:16:44.670 Gabriel Lam: I hope that doesn’t take too long.
177 00:16:47.170 ⇒ 00:16:49.260 Elizah Joy: Let me just try this one.
178 00:16:50.950 ⇒ 00:16:51.890 Elizah Joy: Says…
179 00:16:51.890 ⇒ 00:16:55.780 Gabriel Lam: The desktop should automatically install it, if I remember correctly.
180 00:16:59.350 ⇒ 00:17:00.959 Elizah Joy: Keep downloading it.
181 00:17:15.589 ⇒ 00:17:18.339 Elizah Joy: Yeah, I’m… I’m just logging in.
182 00:17:19.470 ⇒ 00:17:20.109 Gabriel Lam: Okay.
183 00:19:20.510 ⇒ 00:19:22.740 Elizah Joy: I think… I think it’s good.
184 00:19:23.880 ⇒ 00:19:24.640 Gabriel Lam: Okay.
185 00:19:25.130 ⇒ 00:19:32.889 Gabriel Lam: those… So… We can try either… Homebrew package.
186 00:19:33.000 ⇒ 00:19:40.669 Gabriel Lam: Or the GitHub Desktop link. Both are options, depending on which one you like. I like GitHub Desktop, personally.
187 00:19:41.280 ⇒ 00:19:46.119 Gabriel Lam: But the way Sam teaches it is also… there’s multiple ways to do it.
188 00:19:49.640 ⇒ 00:19:51.590 Elizah Joy: Where can I find that one?
189 00:19:52.600 ⇒ 00:19:55.489 Gabriel Lam: I put a link in the chat.
190 00:19:56.450 ⇒ 00:19:57.480 Elizah Joy: Oh, okay.
191 00:19:57.480 ⇒ 00:19:58.000 Gabriel Lam: Yep.
192 00:20:02.190 ⇒ 00:20:09.200 Elizah Joy: Okay, yeah, this one, I think the GitHub desktop, I’m in there now, let me just share it.
193 00:20:09.200 ⇒ 00:20:09.850 Gabriel Lam: Okay.
194 00:20:36.790 ⇒ 00:20:40.279 Gabriel Lam: I’m not sure… I don’t… I only see your cursor at the moment.
195 00:20:42.240 ⇒ 00:20:51.269 Gabriel Lam: Oh, okay. So, yes, what we want to do is we want to… Yes, so you have the…
196 00:20:51.820 ⇒ 00:20:54.910 Gabriel Lam: whole, Brainforge organization.
197 00:20:55.030 ⇒ 00:21:00.700 Gabriel Lam: You’re going to want to…
198 00:21:01.500 ⇒ 00:21:05.169 Gabriel Lam: search for platform, which I think I see it right here.
199 00:21:05.560 ⇒ 00:21:06.840 Gabriel Lam: Oh, yep, you got it.
200 00:21:07.610 ⇒ 00:21:08.300 Elizah Joy: This one?
201 00:21:08.300 ⇒ 00:21:09.499 Gabriel Lam: Yes, the first one.
202 00:21:10.740 ⇒ 00:21:14.629 Gabriel Lam: And then we’re going to want to press… This button.
203 00:21:18.290 ⇒ 00:21:21.750 Gabriel Lam: And so, you can choose where you want it to be. If you…
204 00:21:21.860 ⇒ 00:21:28.100 Gabriel Lam: This is where it’s, like, if you have multiple… Sorry.
205 00:21:28.290 ⇒ 00:21:29.590 Gabriel Lam: Where did it go?
206 00:21:31.170 ⇒ 00:21:31.465 Elizah Joy: Oh.
207 00:21:31.760 ⇒ 00:21:34.050 Gabriel Lam: You can choose where you want it to be saved.
208 00:21:34.920 ⇒ 00:21:38.470 Gabriel Lam: And so if you want to save it there, that’s where I save it, it doesn’t really matter.
209 00:21:38.690 ⇒ 00:21:44.199 Gabriel Lam: But if it works, you can clone it, and this is basically how cursor gets…
210 00:21:44.370 ⇒ 00:21:48.029 Gabriel Lam: connected to the GitHub platform.
211 00:21:53.330 ⇒ 00:22:02.080 Elizah Joy: Okay, and then once that’s, like, installed, like, I’m good with, like, Doing anything in court cursor?
212 00:22:02.410 ⇒ 00:22:09.110 Gabriel Lam: Yes, so there’s a couple things, and if you ever get confused, Sam’s video is great.
213 00:22:09.460 ⇒ 00:22:14.240 Gabriel Lam: So every, every time you start cursor, you’re going to want to fetch
214 00:22:14.640 ⇒ 00:22:19.480 Gabriel Lam: origin. What this means is you are thinking
215 00:22:19.680 ⇒ 00:22:25.010 Gabriel Lam: Like, you’re doing a sync with the… with the cloud?
216 00:22:25.520 ⇒ 00:22:33.660 Gabriel Lam: And so this makes sure you have all the up-to-date information, which is, like, transcripts, like, any SOPs or other documents that people have put in.
217 00:22:33.970 ⇒ 00:22:38.300 Gabriel Lam: So… Yeah, if…
218 00:22:38.910 ⇒ 00:22:53.150 Gabriel Lam: If anything about, like, how to connect to Cursor or GitHub doesn’t make sense, the video is great. If we now go back into Cursor, so now that you’ve cloned it, it means you’ve brought it to your computer, you can start working on it.
219 00:22:53.570 ⇒ 00:22:56.969 Gabriel Lam: You should now be able to clone the repo, yep.
220 00:22:57.530 ⇒ 00:23:00.229 Gabriel Lam: Or open the project, I think both are good.
221 00:23:08.330 ⇒ 00:23:13.399 Gabriel Lam: And so you should be able to go into your documents and open that file.
222 00:23:13.700 ⇒ 00:23:17.179 Gabriel Lam: I don’t see your screen, so I’m not sure, but I think…
223 00:23:17.180 ⇒ 00:23:18.870 Elizah Joy: Any document will do.
224 00:23:18.870 ⇒ 00:23:26.050 Gabriel Lam: No, you’re going to want to go to that… that location, so it’s probably in… And, like, docs…
225 00:23:26.450 ⇒ 00:23:27.610 Gabriel Lam: GitHub.
226 00:23:30.220 ⇒ 00:23:32.140 Gabriel Lam: And then it should say Brain Forge.
227 00:23:34.130 ⇒ 00:23:36.840 Gabriel Lam: That, that folder, so you’re going to want to press that.
228 00:23:42.890 ⇒ 00:23:43.999 Elizah Joy: Okay, let me…
229 00:23:47.930 ⇒ 00:23:50.240 Elizah Joy: Which one do I choose here?
230 00:23:50.240 ⇒ 00:23:53.840 Gabriel Lam: So… Nope, you can… this…
231 00:23:54.140 ⇒ 00:23:58.090 Gabriel Lam: Is the file you want to open, so… you can go back.
232 00:23:58.580 ⇒ 00:24:00.450 Gabriel Lam: One level.
233 00:24:01.520 ⇒ 00:24:04.110 Gabriel Lam: Yeah, you can just click this and press open.
234 00:24:17.160 ⇒ 00:24:18.350 Elizah Joy: Great. Okay.
235 00:24:18.350 ⇒ 00:24:18.830 Gabriel Lam: So…
236 00:24:18.830 ⇒ 00:24:19.430 Elizah Joy: And…
237 00:24:19.430 ⇒ 00:24:25.679 Gabriel Lam: Yes. So, this part is basically, like, your… your finder.
238 00:24:25.800 ⇒ 00:24:28.949 Gabriel Lam: Like, if you click into all of it, you can see all the documents.
239 00:24:29.570 ⇒ 00:24:34.129 Gabriel Lam: This part is…
240 00:24:34.710 ⇒ 00:24:41.220 Gabriel Lam: Basically, the part where if you click any file here, it shows up in a large screen.
241 00:24:41.970 ⇒ 00:24:51.899 Gabriel Lam: And here is sort of like ChatGPT. So this part’s really confusing. So there’s multiple ways that you can have cursor open. So if you look here…
242 00:24:52.620 ⇒ 00:24:57.800 Gabriel Lam: to that, like, gear symbol. There’s different types of views.
243 00:24:58.540 ⇒ 00:25:01.539 Gabriel Lam: So depending on which one makes sense to you.
244 00:25:01.720 ⇒ 00:25:09.120 Gabriel Lam: It may or may not be easier. I like the editor view, but that’s just because I’m used to it, and it makes sense to me, but…
245 00:25:09.440 ⇒ 00:25:13.240 Gabriel Lam: I know Luke… Luke uses, like, Agent or Zen.
246 00:25:13.370 ⇒ 00:25:17.110 Gabriel Lam: And it might be easier that way, too. So it depends on what you like.
247 00:25:17.620 ⇒ 00:25:22.599 Gabriel Lam: yeah, so you can… you can close… you can close the…
248 00:25:22.780 ⇒ 00:25:27.020 Gabriel Lam: Yeah, let’s… for you, I think we can go to…
249 00:25:28.450 ⇒ 00:25:33.209 Gabriel Lam: Let’s go back, and I think we can use… the agent view.
250 00:25:34.830 ⇒ 00:25:35.590 Gabriel Lam: Yes.
251 00:25:36.220 ⇒ 00:25:39.020 Gabriel Lam: Actually, let’s go to editor, I’m so sorry.
252 00:25:39.870 ⇒ 00:25:41.000 Elizah Joy: Okay.
253 00:25:41.250 ⇒ 00:25:43.260 Elizah Joy: Okay, editor.
254 00:25:43.550 ⇒ 00:25:46.249 Gabriel Lam: And then I think we can close out of these as well.
255 00:25:51.520 ⇒ 00:25:58.380 Elizah Joy: Just a quick question on this. Can I type anything here, or do anything… In this area.
256 00:25:58.380 ⇒ 00:25:58.930 Gabriel Lam: So…
257 00:25:58.930 ⇒ 00:26:00.930 Elizah Joy: Oh, just here.
258 00:26:01.780 ⇒ 00:26:06.280 Gabriel Lam: You can, you can type in here, but I… I will get to it.
259 00:26:06.420 ⇒ 00:26:07.270 Elizah Joy: Okay.
260 00:26:07.270 ⇒ 00:26:09.660 Gabriel Lam: Yeah, so let’s close out of that.
261 00:26:10.180 ⇒ 00:26:11.420 Gabriel Lam: And then…
262 00:26:13.830 ⇒ 00:26:19.060 Gabriel Lam: Basically, cursor… the good thing about Cursor is, now that you have all the files open, you can…
263 00:26:19.510 ⇒ 00:26:25.680 Gabriel Lam: use it the way you use ChatGPT, and look through certain files. So I think with Ricoh yesterday, what we did was
264 00:26:26.340 ⇒ 00:26:27.699 Gabriel Lam: We went to the vault.
265 00:26:28.720 ⇒ 00:26:29.700 Gabriel Lam: there.
266 00:26:29.820 ⇒ 00:26:36.969 Gabriel Lam: And we went to… I think we went to Ops, or we went to Notion.
267 00:26:38.020 ⇒ 00:26:45.220 Gabriel Lam: yes, and then… Alright.
268 00:26:45.500 ⇒ 00:26:47.790 Gabriel Lam: Let’s see… Templates.
269 00:26:48.730 ⇒ 00:26:52.750 Gabriel Lam: Yeah, let’s go to the… let’s go to the README here.
270 00:26:53.790 ⇒ 00:26:56.080 Gabriel Lam: It should just be an empty document.
271 00:26:56.610 ⇒ 00:27:04.459 Gabriel Lam: Okay, so one of the good things about Cursor is you can look through documents and you can ask it certain things. So…
272 00:27:04.720 ⇒ 00:27:11.710 Gabriel Lam: you can say, like, I don’t know what a document you need to write is, but yesterday he had to do, like, a recruitment handoff document.
273 00:27:11.840 ⇒ 00:27:14.820 Gabriel Lam: So… For now…
274 00:27:16.380 ⇒ 00:27:24.850 Gabriel Lam: you can use… you can use this box the way you use ChatGPT. Before that, there are different modes, so if you press this button.
275 00:27:25.560 ⇒ 00:27:30.840 Gabriel Lam: There’s four modes. So, agent mode usually is for doing any action.
276 00:27:32.690 ⇒ 00:27:36.739 Gabriel Lam: But if you are… if you don’t know what you’re doing, ask mode is very good.
277 00:27:37.030 ⇒ 00:27:47.899 Gabriel Lam: just to be like, hey, what’s this document about? Can you tell me something? And so if we go press ask, you can say… you can type in, like, oh, if I want to write
278 00:27:48.050 ⇒ 00:27:55.930 Gabriel Lam: you know, a document for finance, how can I write it? You can use it like ChatGPT.
279 00:27:57.320 ⇒ 00:28:01.589 Gabriel Lam: another thing that I would teach you.
280 00:28:02.070 ⇒ 00:28:05.280 Gabriel Lam: Would be if we go here.
281 00:28:06.790 ⇒ 00:28:15.210 Gabriel Lam: This is called… Branching, and so branching basically means that…
282 00:28:15.380 ⇒ 00:28:19.690 Gabriel Lam: there’s, like, the… if you ever watch, you know, Avengers, there’s, like, a…
283 00:28:19.930 ⇒ 00:28:22.520 Elizah Joy: There’s a timeline, there’s, like, a central timeline.
284 00:28:22.720 ⇒ 00:28:27.610 Gabriel Lam: And… What we do is… we…
285 00:28:28.700 ⇒ 00:28:33.860 Gabriel Lam: when we make changes, we don’t put it to the central. It’s because it’s… we…
286 00:28:34.440 ⇒ 00:28:40.779 Gabriel Lam: just want to make sure that everything gets merged correctly. And so one way that
287 00:28:41.160 ⇒ 00:28:47.899 Gabriel Lam: We do it is through branches, and the video goes in to talk about that, but one thing that you can do is
288 00:28:53.040 ⇒ 00:28:59.130 Gabriel Lam: You can create branches that you can put your work in, and then you can submit them on a pull request, and…
289 00:28:59.580 ⇒ 00:29:05.879 Gabriel Lam: I’m sorry, I have to head out in a few minutes, so I’ll ask if you can watch the video for that, but…
290 00:29:05.880 ⇒ 00:29:06.940 Elizah Joy: Yeah.
291 00:29:06.940 ⇒ 00:29:17.190 Gabriel Lam: Now that you have it set up, I think you are very ready to go. If I can share my cursor, if you’re able to see my cursor screen, I can show you some of the things we’re able to do.
292 00:29:18.040 ⇒ 00:29:25.890 Gabriel Lam: So I already hit my limit, unfortunately, but it’s still able to show a lot of things. So, one example is, I’m…
293 00:29:26.100 ⇒ 00:29:28.830 Gabriel Lam: There’s a lot of crazy stuff going on on my screen.
294 00:29:29.670 ⇒ 00:29:35.390 Gabriel Lam: for example… One of the things that I was working on was, like, a…
295 00:29:36.550 ⇒ 00:29:40.670 Gabriel Lam: PRD, which is, like, a document for engineers.
296 00:29:41.000 ⇒ 00:29:49.270 Gabriel Lam: So, I wrote this… Sorry, I wrote this document.
297 00:29:49.580 ⇒ 00:29:56.970 Gabriel Lam: It looks kind of crazy in very code-like language, and one good thing about cursor is you have a preview mode.
298 00:29:57.930 ⇒ 00:29:58.310 Elizah Joy: Which was…
299 00:29:58.310 ⇒ 00:30:07.389 Gabriel Lam: see it the way you see it in, like, Notion. So this looks very much like the way you read it in Notion. One thing that I can do is I can say, you know.
300 00:30:07.860 ⇒ 00:30:20.149 Gabriel Lam: I want… you to… You know, write, SOP on how to…
301 00:30:23.230 ⇒ 00:30:25.470 Gabriel Lam: you know, set up GitHub.
302 00:30:27.130 ⇒ 00:30:45.140 Gabriel Lam: So you can say anything like this, you can ask it, you can plan it. Planning basically means, like, hey, I want you to tell me what you’re gonna do, and then I can say yes or no. For now, I can just do ask, because I think it makes a little more sense, just to show you. Another good thing is you can…
303 00:30:45.740 ⇒ 00:30:48.300 Gabriel Lam: Use the at sign, and you can call specific
304 00:30:48.600 ⇒ 00:30:54.589 Gabriel Lam: pages, so I can say, like, how to use cursor, for example, or how to use,
305 00:30:55.030 ⇒ 00:31:00.399 Gabriel Lam: GitHub, and I can say, use this file to help me write it.
306 00:31:00.980 ⇒ 00:31:16.850 Gabriel Lam: Another thing that you can do is you can also sort of drag documents, so it’s like, hey, I want to drag the whole engineering folder in, and I can do that. So that’s something that we can do, and then I can just, you know, for example, if I want to write it.
307 00:31:16.950 ⇒ 00:31:19.029 Gabriel Lam: It’s very similar to ChatGBT.
308 00:31:19.460 ⇒ 00:31:19.980 Gabriel Lam: in that.
309 00:31:19.980 ⇒ 00:31:20.730 Elizah Joy: Thanks.
310 00:31:21.400 ⇒ 00:31:26.100 Gabriel Lam: So it’s gonna use its thing…
311 00:31:36.120 ⇒ 00:31:37.970 Gabriel Lam: And the good thing about
312 00:31:38.310 ⇒ 00:31:52.629 Gabriel Lam: The good thing about what we’ve done, and the reason why we set it up this way, is because there’s a lot of existing documents that have already been written, and so you don’t have to go into, like, add folders in ChatGPT and, like, add documents every time you do it.
313 00:31:53.470 ⇒ 00:31:55.220 Gabriel Lam: So this is what we’ve done.
314 00:31:57.890 ⇒ 00:32:03.930 Gabriel Lam: And then… I can say, like, oh, you know, I’m happy with this. Like, this looks good.
315 00:32:07.250 ⇒ 00:32:10.770 Gabriel Lam: and then I can say, you know.
316 00:32:10.970 ⇒ 00:32:14.530 Gabriel Lam: In this case, I can say agent, Can you write?
317 00:32:14.670 ⇒ 00:32:16.149 Gabriel Lam: Like, this is great.
318 00:32:16.520 ⇒ 00:32:19.460 Gabriel Lam: Can you write it to the…
319 00:32:19.740 ⇒ 00:32:23.409 Gabriel Lam: vault. And if I have a specific place, I can say.
320 00:32:23.700 ⇒ 00:32:26.220 Gabriel Lam: You know, I can say, I want to put it to ops.
321 00:32:27.030 ⇒ 00:32:27.440 Elizah Joy: and I want.
322 00:32:27.440 ⇒ 00:32:28.220 Gabriel Lam: there.
323 00:32:28.340 ⇒ 00:32:34.020 Gabriel Lam: And so that way, it’s able to write this document and put it into there.
324 00:32:34.710 ⇒ 00:32:35.970 Elizah Joy: Exactly.
325 00:32:38.930 ⇒ 00:32:44.599 Elizah Joy: A question on that, like, for example, for the files that I do save in here.
326 00:32:47.490 ⇒ 00:32:51.489 Elizah Joy: It’ll be added into our vault, is that correct?
327 00:32:52.640 ⇒ 00:32:53.789 Elizah Joy: Or… Yeah, so…
328 00:32:53.790 ⇒ 00:33:00.270 Gabriel Lam: Generally, yes. So, there’s two places, really, for non-engineers.
329 00:33:00.530 ⇒ 00:33:05.409 Gabriel Lam: The first place would be the playbook, which is what we’ve done to
330 00:33:05.590 ⇒ 00:33:07.509 Gabriel Lam: Tell the cursor what to do.
331 00:33:07.710 ⇒ 00:33:20.439 Gabriel Lam: And so the cursor will usually look in here and be like, oh, if I need… if you’re telling me to write SOW, then I look in this file. If you’re telling me to write, like, a job posting, this is what I write.
332 00:33:20.570 ⇒ 00:33:25.220 Gabriel Lam: And then the vault is what people have done, and so it’s like, hey, you know, Robert’s…
333 00:33:26.000 ⇒ 00:33:32.929 Gabriel Lam: you know, has his sales document there, or Rico’s built, like, a recruitment handoff there that usually goes in the vault.
334 00:33:33.230 ⇒ 00:33:37.820 Gabriel Lam: And so you can see here, it’s saved, it’s written in here, and then…
335 00:33:37.950 ⇒ 00:33:43.760 Gabriel Lam: you can review it. And so, you’re like, oh wow, this looks great. Then I can say review, or I can say keep.
336 00:33:43.910 ⇒ 00:33:51.699 Gabriel Lam: I can do it here, or you can say, oh, this is really ugly, I don’t like it, I don’t want you to… I don’t want it. You can say undo, and then it gets rid of it.
337 00:33:53.430 ⇒ 00:33:53.970 Gabriel Lam: Wow.
338 00:33:54.320 ⇒ 00:33:55.820 Gabriel Lam: So, yeah.
339 00:33:56.050 ⇒ 00:34:00.889 Gabriel Lam: Another thing that we can do is we can say… I’m just gonna say, like, you know.
340 00:34:07.810 ⇒ 00:34:10.010 Gabriel Lam: So I’m just gonna put a random document.
341 00:34:10.500 ⇒ 00:34:17.510 Gabriel Lam: and let’s say, you know, this is great, I like what it does, I want to save it. And so…
342 00:34:18.409 ⇒ 00:34:27.360 Gabriel Lam: you can press Ctrl-S to save it, and then this is where I would go to, sam’s… document.
343 00:34:27.710 ⇒ 00:34:30.819 Gabriel Lam: to… To go through it, but…
344 00:34:31.929 ⇒ 00:34:35.109 Gabriel Lam: If I show you the screen, there’s a couple ways to do it.
345 00:34:35.860 ⇒ 00:34:37.860 Gabriel Lam: I think his way is better, but…
346 00:34:38.010 ⇒ 00:34:43.300 Gabriel Lam: What you would essentially do is you would have a new branch,
347 00:34:43.670 ⇒ 00:34:46.690 Gabriel Lam: And so you’re not saving it on the main timeline.
348 00:34:47.070 ⇒ 00:34:49.609 Gabriel Lam: And then you would submit it that way, but…
349 00:34:50.650 ⇒ 00:34:56.649 Gabriel Lam: I think what I’ve showed you is more, like, what can you do with cursor, and I think what Sam has is, like, how do you get
350 00:34:56.900 ⇒ 00:35:00.520 Gabriel Lam: to a place that you can do it, if that makes sense. I hope that helps.
351 00:35:01.170 ⇒ 00:35:01.770 Elizah Joy: Yes.
352 00:35:01.770 ⇒ 00:35:06.110 Gabriel Lam: I spent about half an hour just… just…
353 00:35:06.240 ⇒ 00:35:22.859 Gabriel Lam: looking at the video, it’s, like, 10 minutes long, but I think it’s very good for setup and helping you understand. And then I hope what I just showed you is, like, helpful for you. I think for Rico yesterday, he was like, hey, I want to, you know, bring Notion documents, like, I want you to read all these Notion documents, like.
354 00:35:23.830 ⇒ 00:35:26.019 Gabriel Lam: We were able to do that yesterday, so…
355 00:35:26.300 ⇒ 00:35:28.570 Gabriel Lam: I hope that helps, I hope this makes sense.
356 00:35:28.900 ⇒ 00:35:29.810 Elizah Joy: Yeah.
357 00:35:29.810 ⇒ 00:35:38.580 Gabriel Lam: specific, like, deliverables or workflows, just, like, ping me. Be like, hey, like, Gabe, I’m trying to write this document.
358 00:35:39.180 ⇒ 00:35:44.249 Gabriel Lam: Like, I have it on Notion, like, what can I do? Then we can set up another time. But I hope that’s helpful.
359 00:35:44.720 ⇒ 00:36:01.369 Elizah Joy: Yeah, actually, this is very helpful, because as you can see, the setup of my cursor earlier, like, nothing’s doable in there yet. Yeah, thank you so much for this, and thank you for your time. Yeah, this is very helpful. I’ll do make sure to watch, Sam’s video.
360 00:36:01.370 ⇒ 00:36:12.990 Elizah Joy: for, so that I could get more knowledge on it. But yeah, I think, this’ll be… I’ll use it after our call, actually. I do have to write a few documentations.
361 00:36:12.990 ⇒ 00:36:15.199 Gabriel Lam: Great. Yeah, so…
362 00:36:15.420 ⇒ 00:36:21.319 Gabriel Lam: It’s probably gonna be slower than ChatGPT today, but hopefully for next week onwards, it’ll be much faster.
363 00:36:21.740 ⇒ 00:36:22.889 Elizah Joy: Yeah, yeah.
364 00:36:23.270 ⇒ 00:36:26.670 Gabriel Lam: Awesome, thank you. I will catch you later. I’ll talk soon.
365 00:36:26.670 ⇒ 00:36:29.660 Elizah Joy: Thank you so much for your time, appreciate it.
366 00:36:29.660 ⇒ 00:36:30.830 Gabriel Lam: Awesome, bye.
367 00:36:31.180 ⇒ 00:36:32.670 Elizah Joy: Thank you, bye!