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Date: January 23, 2026
Source: Granola
Meeting ID: f5b1b451-2355-4223-be14-fd43fcffd006
URL: https://notes.granola.ai/t/f5b1b451-2355-4223-be14-fd43fcffd006
Participants:
- Uttam Kumaran (Brainforge)
- Caitlyn (default.com)
- Nandika Jhunjhunwala (default.com)
- Lev (default.com)
- Demilade Agboola (Brainforge)
- Gregory Stoutenburg (Brainforge)
- Mustafa Raja (Brainforge)
Transcript
Me: Bc is. My God.
Them: Yeah. Caitlyn11 Nandika.
Me: Exactly. Yeah. I don’t want other people. I want kosher and arcade books, all the guardrails. The folks that think about is what the tasks they’re trying to accomplish. And actually, you don’t even really know that. I just want to start your day. And we go to the prom and to. Like, hey, I’ve been wanting to do this today. How should I do this? And then you should. Workload is a thought, partner. Versus don’t stress too much about getting it right. But everything should start with a plan first, and then eventually, hopefully, I’ll be able to even just prevent. Being able to do anything without the plan. But aren’t. You afraid Sometimes. It’s. The point where. I figure. This. Exact Alphabet. And sometimes it feels like I give too much. What if you want some level power? But your output will be crap if you don’t do it. But you don’t spend the time, you’re not going to get the right output. And then you’re going to say, hey, I didn’t get the right. I put it. I’m going to come back and be like, show me your plan. And I didn’t do a plan. I. One shot at it. And we’d be like, okay. Don’t do that. Yeah. We had templates. But let’s say we’re not. Juh. Part of what I’m going to share today is that you shouldn’t use cursor looking strategy. Which is like, tell me to summit it. Summon this. You should literally use it. Your thought partner, your sister, like your intern. You start to think about it a lot differently. But it is better at writing prompts than we are. It is better what it is not. It’s an iv. It doesn’t come up with creative ideas. It doesn’t know that in order for Brainforge to get better, I have to do this. If you ask me. What’s your brain for you? It’s like, give me a bunch of ideas. But that’s the nuisance. Not in the context of what are our priorities right now? What it means to do, how do I accomplish it? So I’m not the humans to think about that. How to get it done is becoming less and less important. Meaning you don’t need to tell the AI. Create the spreadsheet and do this. Unless that’s, like, what you want. Instead, you should be thinking about the strategy. What are the smallest unit I’m thinking of Speed up. What are ways in my life that I’m not using this? That could. So the speed is the first thing, and then you’ll go after quality and depth. Because without people using cursor in their day to day. It’s not worth me. It’s not working. Teaching Bless them too. They’ll just hit it really fast. But I also told you, I’m like, you’re going to see what I kind of mean about you almost need to really treat it differently than you treat Chatgpt. But everybody has to build through that journey. Before I can then layer on the okay. Now that you just did a copper. So I have to get set back. Think about the things you’re doing. What other opportunities you think? Okay, maybe I did it just the way I’ve always been doing. I should use pressure for this. I actually found this together. I don’t know. If it’d be useful, but at some point, I want to play around with it. Yeah. Yeah, it’s super interesting. One thing I just would prevent. You from going too far is like debating Claude code versus curse servers. Don’t get into that. I do it. Me and Clarence beats because he is really fixated. I’m like, oh, I use Gemini for this. I use anti Gardra Saint. That’s useless optimization. Instead. Every tool is actually really good, but most of the alphas and knowing how to use it. Not in like not in like cursor versus what tragically do basically the same. I would rather you learn how to prompt and, like, use it as a partner. And I’m going to raise the floor with playbooks involved. Meaning you really get, Cindy. Hard for you to get, like, an ass response. But it’s going to be up to you if you want to get 10x response or really build something big. Just through prompting, that’s going to be up to the user. But I’m going to make sure that it’s going to be hard. Even if you were to go and be like, I want an nsw, and then it’s not going to let you on, it’s going to be like, cool in order to write one, I need this information. See what I mean? The rails are going to be there. But business side New Debating whether a cloud code or cursor isn’t a couple of ways to business hours. I’ll make that decision and be like, if it ends up being drastically better, I’ll be able to slow. But I don’t want people to pontificate on that. Don’t waste your time. That’s not the outflow here, frankly, because all these tools can converge. What’s going to be more important is that you know how to use any of it. All so similar. Right. You don’t think like clockwork is like a special. Edge on. Doing programming tasks. But what would you describe as special edge? You. Understand the. Training Day that you guys just can’t help but even go dumber for me. Is 5% better at special Edge. What is a special edge? That’s what I’m trying to say. That makes sense. But. Specific tasks. Right. Where to make more sense to that model. Because. I know, but that’s why I’m going to keep pushing with you. What is the cost of me having to go maintain two different systems, train everybody to use one system over another when the edge is only 5%? I can get you 50% better edge by just showing you how to use cursor better. I’m telling you because we’re not working on those problems. Where GPT 5.2 is slightly worse than Cloud. We’re not working on those types of engineering problems. And for the most part a lot of exam was mainly working on writing or operations. Where both of those are already, like, killer. And none of us are working on Ross C+ + super optimization supporting a trillion. This is what I’m saying. Because I’m also an engineer. It’s pretty fun to be like, yeah, I don’t want to completely use those optimization and the cognitive load of having to be use this over here versus this over here. Buying both of those training. That’s a complete waste of time. And by the time we figure that out, You should have just learned it. Figure out the limitation. So see what’s up. Yeah. But, yeah, it’s a debate. I’m not right about it. I just think it’s my point of view I revival. But some people are not going to be. Opinionated at all this company, so I just need to make sure that they’re interested and they’re just. So interesting to me. That a lot of people are. Not affinity on things like this that. Most people. Just. Think about other people in the world. Like even after those people giving fuck about anything, it’s not like we’re so small. And I brought on people that really care. But I can’t guarantee that everybody’s going to care about this business. I’m okay with that, though. I’m not worried about that. Because if I’m worried about that, then, okay, I have to be really strict of hiding instead of I’m just going to raise the floor. It’s going to be really hard for you to be bad here. And if you are back to your show, and then you’re going to get the fuck out of here. Oh, yeah. Dude. Of course. Just monitor. Six. Nice. Ly. Overall. Value. And then. What are you trying to. Sex.