Meeting Title: Cursor Development and Taskmaster Planning Sync Date: 2025-09-12 Meeting participants: Casie Aviles, Uttam Kumaran
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1 00:02:22.870 ⇒ 00:02:24.169 Uttam Kumaran: Hey, Casey.
2 00:02:28.610 ⇒ 00:02:29.779 Uttam Kumaran: How’s everything?
3 00:02:31.150 ⇒ 00:02:32.699 Casie Aviles: Yeah, doing good.
4 00:02:32.970 ⇒ 00:02:37.469 Casie Aviles: I’m just a little slow today since it’s the end of the week.
5 00:02:38.060 ⇒ 00:02:41.489 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, yeah, me too. I,
6 00:02:42.000 ⇒ 00:02:46.719 Uttam Kumaran: I am glad this week I actually got to do some development work, but I, like…
7 00:02:46.960 ⇒ 00:02:50.179 Uttam Kumaran: It’s always, like, end of day for me when I start.
8 00:02:50.180 ⇒ 00:02:52.590 Casie Aviles: On cursor and stuff, and then, like… Yeah.
9 00:02:52.740 ⇒ 00:02:55.029 Uttam Kumaran: I have to eat dinner, and then I have to just, like.
10 00:02:55.500 ⇒ 00:03:05.650 Uttam Kumaran: do stuff, and it kind of always gets disrupted. But, I’m gonna try this weekend. I’ve been doing a lot in Cursor within Dagster, and…
11 00:03:05.800 ⇒ 00:03:10.180 Uttam Kumaran: For some other client work, so I’m getting the hang of stuff.
12 00:03:10.510 ⇒ 00:03:11.390 Casie Aviles: I reckon.
13 00:03:11.390 ⇒ 00:03:20.440 Uttam Kumaran: really, like, want to push this MelaSearch thing. I’ve not, like, been able to get, like, 3-4 hours to figure it all out, but hopefully this weekend.
14 00:03:23.700 ⇒ 00:03:28.520 Casie Aviles: Yeah, I’m also trying to catch up with all the stuff you’ve been sending,
15 00:03:28.990 ⇒ 00:03:32.970 Casie Aviles: Haven’t heard of those, actually, like, this Taskmaster thing.
16 00:03:33.830 ⇒ 00:03:38.110 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so basically, like, I mean, are you using Claude code for anything?
17 00:03:38.760 ⇒ 00:03:42.450 Casie Aviles: I think it’s the model that I’m using for the cursor, yeah.
18 00:03:43.440 ⇒ 00:03:46.639 Uttam Kumaran: Well, no, I think Claude Code itself is, like, a product.
19 00:03:46.950 ⇒ 00:03:51.639 Casie Aviles: Oh, yeah, I’m probably… yeah, I’m not using that one, just the model.
20 00:03:52.260 ⇒ 00:03:54.420 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, same. I’m not using, like.
21 00:03:54.780 ⇒ 00:04:00.479 Uttam Kumaran: the actual application either, but basically, something that Cloud Code does, apparently, is it, like.
22 00:04:00.760 ⇒ 00:04:04.669 Uttam Kumaran: Helps you break down tasks into, like, a project document first.
23 00:04:05.650 ⇒ 00:04:11.449 Uttam Kumaran: Because what happens with Cursor is… it does, like, you know how it breaks it down into tasks now, right?
24 00:04:11.700 ⇒ 00:04:30.389 Uttam Kumaran: But actually, one thing that’s better is if you first have Cursor write, like, a project plan, and then start to break down the project plan into task files, and then start executing the task one by one. Apparently, like, it’s way better. And so, one of the things I want to try to…
25 00:04:30.520 ⇒ 00:04:33.749 Uttam Kumaran: try to work on is using this Taskmaster thing
26 00:04:33.860 ⇒ 00:04:41.790 Uttam Kumaran: But basically, it’s like, I want to start to figure out, like, what are… what is the best way to develop with Cursor when we’re working on, like, more, like, bigger features, you know?
27 00:04:42.280 ⇒ 00:04:42.940 Casie Aviles: Yeah, yeah.
28 00:04:44.410 ⇒ 00:04:50.130 Uttam Kumaran: like, implementing Melisearch is, like, a bigger thing, so I wanted to start to break down that project first.
29 00:04:50.810 ⇒ 00:04:52.630 Uttam Kumaran: Before starting to work on it.
30 00:04:53.090 ⇒ 00:04:59.319 Casie Aviles: You can’t just dump everything there. It’s going to be a mess.
31 00:04:59.420 ⇒ 00:05:00.590 Casie Aviles: Yeah. Yeah.
32 00:05:01.740 ⇒ 00:05:07.389 Uttam Kumaran: And, like, it’ll start building random stuff, but it’s not gonna get it right, and you’re not gonna have, like, checkpoints, you know?
33 00:05:07.390 ⇒ 00:05:08.150 Casie Aviles: Yeah.
34 00:05:09.080 ⇒ 00:05:16.520 Uttam Kumaran: Well, that’s, like, that’s more of, like, what I’m… Kind of concerned about, so… Yeah, that’s like…
35 00:05:16.680 ⇒ 00:05:19.340 Uttam Kumaran: what I want to try to spend some time doing.
36 00:05:19.470 ⇒ 00:05:24.809 Uttam Kumaran: This weekend, and… Yeah, stuff has been good otherwise, like…
37 00:05:25.430 ⇒ 00:05:31.240 Uttam Kumaran: I really feel like it’s been really nice having Sam and…
38 00:05:31.650 ⇒ 00:05:44.360 Uttam Kumaran: that you… all you guys, you know, just, like, collaborate and get stuff done. I… I… it’s been… it’s been really, really nice to see. I think progress on clients has been really good.
39 00:05:44.930 ⇒ 00:05:49.160 Uttam Kumaran: So yeah, like, tell me how you’re feeling and what I can help with.
40 00:05:51.110 ⇒ 00:05:52.030 Casie Aviles: Oh, yeah,
41 00:05:52.970 ⇒ 00:05:59.049 Casie Aviles: Yeah, I mean, I think for the week, it’s just also good that I’m also able to, like.
42 00:06:00.700 ⇒ 00:06:03.800 Casie Aviles: You know, get some feedback and get some help from…
43 00:06:03.980 ⇒ 00:06:08.459 Casie Aviles: Other people now, and hopefully it’s, you know, it’s taken…
44 00:06:09.080 ⇒ 00:06:13.170 Casie Aviles: You’ve gotten less pings now.
45 00:06:14.020 ⇒ 00:06:20.609 Casie Aviles: But yeah, like, I mean, it’s nice that I was able to move forward with a lot of the stuff and get some…
46 00:06:21.140 ⇒ 00:06:27.370 Casie Aviles: Thoughts, because it’s kind of also difficult at times to just you know…
47 00:06:27.610 ⇒ 00:06:30.480 Casie Aviles: Have thoughts to myself, and
48 00:06:31.440 ⇒ 00:06:40.840 Casie Aviles: sometimes I… what do you call this? Like, I get short-sighted on something, so… I think that’s definitely helpful.
49 00:06:40.840 ⇒ 00:06:41.880 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, great.
50 00:06:44.090 ⇒ 00:06:46.800 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I agree as well. I think it’s…
51 00:06:46.940 ⇒ 00:07:00.550 Uttam Kumaran: it’s nice, and then I know I’m usually the blocker about ideas and stuff, and so I’m glad that, you know, you guys get to, meet with Sam and get through things. And I know the team isn’t, like, that big, but it’s…
52 00:07:00.620 ⇒ 00:07:11.720 Uttam Kumaran: it… every… for me, like, every hour is meaningful, so I’m… I just want to make sure you guys are supported, and then if I can get an extra hour or two to just try stuff and keep moving us along, that’s…
53 00:07:11.770 ⇒ 00:07:21.060 Uttam Kumaran: It’s really helpful for me, so… yeah, I want to try and, you know, do more stuff on the internal platform, and so I’m kind of excited for that as well.
54 00:07:22.290 ⇒ 00:07:23.000 Casie Aviles: Yeah…
55 00:07:24.300 ⇒ 00:07:33.870 Casie Aviles: Yeah, hopefully, like, we get more time to also start, working more on internal stuff, like, lately it’s just been mostly clients, so…
56 00:07:34.430 ⇒ 00:07:35.870 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I agree.
57 00:07:36.180 ⇒ 00:07:52.180 Uttam Kumaran: I’m, like… I’m hopeful that, like, if we can get, like, one or two more AI clients, I can really afford to bring on one more person, and then sort of give them a lot more work, and then start to spread the load a little bit, but… yeah, that’s also, like, kind of, like, what I’m hoping for.
58 00:07:52.410 ⇒ 00:08:00.029 Casie Aviles: Yeah, actually, some of my… some of the people I worked with from my last company are asking if I can…
59 00:08:00.880 ⇒ 00:08:10.559 Casie Aviles: you know, if I can introduce them here, like, you know, but, like, I don’t think we’re hiring yet, so I couldn’t, like.
60 00:08:10.890 ⇒ 00:08:12.959 Casie Aviles: Promise anything to them, like…
61 00:08:14.030 ⇒ 00:08:30.120 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, you should, you know, I think it’s actually… you can introduce them at any time, because for me, it’s just, like, I want to meet people, and then when the time is right, we’ll… we can open up a role for them. But if, yeah, if you have anyone that you would recommend, I’m happy to… I’m happy to chat with them.
62 00:08:31.370 ⇒ 00:08:37.240 Casie Aviles: Yeah, yeah, okay. I guess I’ll ask them for, like, their CV, if that’s good.
63 00:08:37.600 ⇒ 00:08:38.950 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, that’s great.
64 00:08:40.260 ⇒ 00:08:42.559 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, that would be really nice.
65 00:08:43.809 ⇒ 00:08:48.709 Casie Aviles: Okay, what else? I think I actually booked this
66 00:08:49.149 ⇒ 00:08:53.959 Casie Aviles: Gal, this meet, I think, because of… Your message to me?
67 00:08:53.960 ⇒ 00:08:54.820 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
68 00:08:55.810 ⇒ 00:09:02.580 Casie Aviles: So the… so, should I go through with that? I can share my screen, though.
69 00:09:02.580 ⇒ 00:09:03.970 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, that’s fine.
70 00:09:04.860 ⇒ 00:09:05.650 Casie Aviles: Okay…
71 00:09:09.190 ⇒ 00:09:14.949 Casie Aviles: So, I’m also wondering if… We should have Ryan here as well, but…
72 00:09:18.860 ⇒ 00:09:22.209 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, whatever you send me, I’ll send to him as well.
73 00:09:23.050 ⇒ 00:09:26.340 Casie Aviles: I think he, yeah, he chose, like, a different…
74 00:09:26.720 ⇒ 00:09:28.780 Casie Aviles: what do you call this? A different…
75 00:09:29.920 ⇒ 00:09:33.609 Casie Aviles: Monitor, because he wants… he wanted the curve done.
76 00:09:34.420 ⇒ 00:09:35.720 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, okay, okay.
77 00:09:36.520 ⇒ 00:09:41.169 Casie Aviles: Or, okay, so for… so I guess what I’ll do is I’ll just,
78 00:09:42.560 ⇒ 00:09:48.730 Casie Aviles: I’ll just have it reimbursed, if that’s fine, I think that’ll be easier for you.
79 00:09:49.220 ⇒ 00:09:50.069 Uttam Kumaran: That’s fine.
80 00:09:50.630 ⇒ 00:09:57.819 Casie Aviles: Yeah, since… the system… I’ll be paying through… My… yeah, my account.
81 00:09:58.650 ⇒ 00:09:59.420 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
82 00:10:00.350 ⇒ 00:10:03.010 Casie Aviles: So… Alright, so I’ll just…
83 00:10:03.880 ⇒ 00:10:10.380 Casie Aviles: I’m just making sure, so I’ll be purchasing this and this one, right? And then I’ll just send you an invoice.
84 00:10:11.010 ⇒ 00:10:12.000 Uttam Kumaran: That’s perfect.
85 00:10:13.600 ⇒ 00:10:14.310 Casie Aviles: Okay.
86 00:10:15.860 ⇒ 00:10:18.960 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, great, I’m glad. I know I asked before, so I want to make sure that…
87 00:10:19.380 ⇒ 00:10:23.609 Uttam Kumaran: You’re able to have that in… Be more productive, so…
88 00:10:25.500 ⇒ 00:10:27.060 Casie Aviles: Yeah, okay.
89 00:10:35.160 ⇒ 00:10:36.170 Casie Aviles: One sec…
90 00:10:54.690 ⇒ 00:10:56.820 Uttam Kumaran: And you don’t need, like, a keyboard or anything?
91 00:10:58.180 ⇒ 00:11:01.729 Casie Aviles: Hmm… I think I can manage without one for now.
92 00:11:02.560 ⇒ 00:11:03.250 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
93 00:11:05.190 ⇒ 00:11:10.469 Casie Aviles: Yeah, I actually do have a keyboard lying around, so that shouldn’t be a problem.
94 00:11:11.100 ⇒ 00:11:11.730 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
95 00:11:12.620 ⇒ 00:11:17.060 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, and then just make sure that you can, like… have,
96 00:11:17.220 ⇒ 00:11:19.509 Uttam Kumaran: Like, you have the cords or whatever you need.
97 00:11:21.510 ⇒ 00:11:22.419 Casie Aviles: Yeah. Okay.
98 00:11:31.120 ⇒ 00:11:32.080 Casie Aviles: Okay…
99 00:11:35.410 ⇒ 00:11:39.949 Casie Aviles: I’m just checking if they have any discounts, sometimes they give discounts.
100 00:11:48.770 ⇒ 00:11:50.779 Uttam Kumaran: Dude, I went to a Filipino restaurant.
101 00:11:50.910 ⇒ 00:11:52.290 Casie Aviles: Oh, really?
102 00:11:52.290 ⇒ 00:11:52.730 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
103 00:11:52.730 ⇒ 00:11:53.730 Casie Aviles: How was it?
104 00:11:54.230 ⇒ 00:11:56.160 Uttam Kumaran: It was good, they had,
105 00:11:56.410 ⇒ 00:11:59.269 Uttam Kumaran: They had this, like, green, like, gamba sauce?
106 00:11:59.770 ⇒ 00:12:00.540 Uttam Kumaran: That was called?
107 00:12:00.540 ⇒ 00:12:02.399 Casie Aviles: What’s that? I don’t know.
108 00:12:02.400 ⇒ 00:12:05.260 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know, and then they… and then I had, like,
109 00:12:05.660 ⇒ 00:12:10.469 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know, like, what are… what are some Filipino dishes? I forgot the name of the things that we ordered.
110 00:12:11.790 ⇒ 00:12:17.290 Casie Aviles: Well, I mean, the most popular one is adobo. I’m not sure if you had that.
111 00:12:17.950 ⇒ 00:12:19.659 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t think we had that.
112 00:12:20.170 ⇒ 00:12:24.379 Uttam Kumaran: Some of it was, like, Singaporean, too, I could tell, so it wasn’t, like, 100%.
113 00:12:24.890 ⇒ 00:12:32.560 Casie Aviles: Yeah… But, we have a lot of pork in our menu, so…
114 00:12:32.560 ⇒ 00:12:34.190 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, we had pork.
115 00:12:34.520 ⇒ 00:12:36.610 Uttam Kumaran: And then, yeah, that was really good.
116 00:12:40.310 ⇒ 00:12:43.390 Casie Aviles: Yeah, that’s great, like…
117 00:12:47.460 ⇒ 00:12:49.819 Casie Aviles: So it’s there in Austin?
118 00:12:50.180 ⇒ 00:12:53.490 Uttam Kumaran: Yes. There are, like, some Filipino restaurants here.
119 00:12:54.130 ⇒ 00:12:55.269 Casie Aviles: I guess I thought…
120 00:13:01.790 ⇒ 00:13:02.750 Casie Aviles: What’s wrong here?
121 00:14:27.720 ⇒ 00:14:33.190 Casie Aviles: Okay, I think I’ll just… I’ll just, finish this.
122 00:14:33.360 ⇒ 00:14:33.960 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
123 00:14:33.960 ⇒ 00:14:37.220 Casie Aviles: And then I’ll just send you the invoice, I don’t want to keep you here.
124 00:14:37.480 ⇒ 00:14:38.050 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay.
125 00:14:38.050 ⇒ 00:14:38.919 Casie Aviles: Hold on.
126 00:14:39.530 ⇒ 00:14:41.910 Casie Aviles: Okay, yeah, thanks, Utam.
127 00:14:42.420 ⇒ 00:14:43.460 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
128 00:14:43.570 ⇒ 00:14:50.090 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, and then, yeah, if you have any other feedback or anything, let me know. I mean, I think mainly, I want to make sure that you have a good setup and, like.
129 00:14:50.620 ⇒ 00:14:57.189 Uttam Kumaran: I’m hopeful we can land one or two more AI clients, but I’m really happy, like, with the crew so far, and…
130 00:14:57.370 ⇒ 00:15:08.020 Uttam Kumaran: I’m trying to free up my time to keep working on some of the internal platform stuff, so… Yeah, I think… I think we’ll… I think we’ll see. I mean, the other thing is I’m trying to get you guys some PM support as well.
131 00:15:08.220 ⇒ 00:15:11.200 Uttam Kumaran: So I think I may see, like, if,
132 00:15:11.320 ⇒ 00:15:15.279 Uttam Kumaran: Rico, or someone can also give up a little bit of time to help
133 00:15:16.040 ⇒ 00:15:20.750 Uttam Kumaran: Help, like, keep things organized and prioritize features and things like that, so…
134 00:15:21.390 ⇒ 00:15:23.029 Casie Aviles: Oh, for internal work?
135 00:15:23.290 ⇒ 00:15:24.940 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, for internal work.
136 00:15:26.870 ⇒ 00:15:28.549 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, yeah, that would be good.
137 00:15:28.880 ⇒ 00:15:41.759 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, because I know I was doing that before, and I think Sam’s gonna be helpful on, like, how to build and what to build. Yes. I think it’s gonna… I think… I think it’s… I wanna give, like, at least, like, a couple hours of support from someone on the PM team around.
138 00:15:41.990 ⇒ 00:15:47.200 Uttam Kumaran: Just, like, when to build things, like, meeting to getting the requirements and things like that, you know?
139 00:15:48.240 ⇒ 00:15:49.620 Casie Aviles: Yeah, definitely.
140 00:15:50.090 ⇒ 00:15:50.880 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
141 00:15:50.880 ⇒ 00:15:52.900 Casie Aviles: Like, I’ve been getting, like.
142 00:15:53.040 ⇒ 00:15:55.939 Casie Aviles: Some ad hoc stuff lately as well, and
143 00:15:56.650 ⇒ 00:16:03.740 Casie Aviles: I’m not sure, like, if it’s blocking them, like, or, like, when to… sometimes, yeah, I do have…
144 00:16:04.390 ⇒ 00:16:07.750 Casie Aviles: Trouble, like, prioritizing when to get it done, but…
145 00:16:08.540 ⇒ 00:16:19.699 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, and I’m telling everybody to, you know, speak directly with you guys, and so, yeah, I think it’s just having some support. I mean, I feel like, you know, it could be Rico, it could be Amber, I’m not sure.
146 00:16:20.310 ⇒ 00:16:25.940 Uttam Kumaran: Not sure yet, but… Just someone to kind of support and give some clarity on when
147 00:16:26.560 ⇒ 00:16:28.290 Uttam Kumaran: To do things, so…
148 00:16:30.040 ⇒ 00:16:31.210 Casie Aviles: Okay, yeah.
149 00:16:32.490 ⇒ 00:16:33.190 Uttam Kumaran: Cool.
150 00:16:34.120 ⇒ 00:16:39.739 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so dude, send me those folks’ resumes, I mean, look, especially if you… if you know them and they…
151 00:16:39.850 ⇒ 00:16:46.179 Uttam Kumaran: you know, they’re coming in and they’re great, like, I would much rather go with folks that we know. I have one…
152 00:16:46.450 ⇒ 00:17:00.160 Uttam Kumaran: I have one person here that I’m also interested in, but he’s a bit more senior, like, and he’s actually not that much more senior, I just think he’s just one of the few people here I’ve met in Austin that are, like.
153 00:17:00.510 ⇒ 00:17:06.190 Uttam Kumaran: Great developers, but yeah, I’m open to sort of anybody that we like.
154 00:17:08.089 ⇒ 00:17:21.130 Uttam Kumaran: Kind of what I’m hoping is, like, if we can get one more client or two more clients, then we can free up… that person can come in to work on them, and then I can free you and Mustafa a little bit to work on internal platform.
155 00:17:21.300 ⇒ 00:17:23.199 Uttam Kumaran: It’s kind of, like, what I’m hoping for.
156 00:17:25.000 ⇒ 00:17:35.720 Casie Aviles: Yeah, yeah, that’s good. And also, like, once we get that time, I think it would be nice, it would be also, you know, give us space to, like, also
157 00:17:35.830 ⇒ 00:17:40.779 Casie Aviles: Experiment and catch up on the new stuff that’s coming up, because there’s, like, a lot, and…
158 00:17:40.920 ⇒ 00:17:44.589 Uttam Kumaran: Yes. I haven’t been able to explore much, admittedly.
159 00:17:45.010 ⇒ 00:17:46.649 Uttam Kumaran: No, I agree, I agree.
160 00:17:46.830 ⇒ 00:17:54.820 Uttam Kumaran: there’s been a lot. I’m keeping up, but it’s crazy, like, I mean, we could… we have to start building, like, MCPs for stuff…
161 00:17:55.010 ⇒ 00:17:58.340 Uttam Kumaran: Like, that would be awesome, like, a bunch of things, you know, so…
162 00:18:01.410 ⇒ 00:18:06.709 Casie Aviles: Yeah, just excited to try those out whenever I get the chance.
163 00:18:06.980 ⇒ 00:18:08.190 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, definitely.
164 00:18:10.640 ⇒ 00:18:14.280 Casie Aviles: Okay, I think that’s all from me, yeah? Thank you.
165 00:18:14.600 ⇒ 00:18:16.759 Uttam Kumaran: Alright, thanks, dude. I’ll talk to you soon.
166 00:18:17.350 ⇒ 00:18:18.100 Casie Aviles: Bye-bye.
167 00:18:18.320 ⇒ 00:18:18.910 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, bye.