Meeting Title: Brainforge x Breedforge Weekly Check-in Date: 2026-04-30 Meeting participants: Brylle Girang, Ashwini Sharma


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1 00:04:41.580 00:04:43.419 Ashwini Sharma: Hey, B, how are you?

2 00:04:43.820 00:04:46.659 Brylle Girang: Hello! I’m good! How are you doing?

3 00:04:46.960 00:04:48.020 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, I’m good.

4 00:04:48.860 00:04:51.669 Brylle Girang: Nice. What did you do for the weekends?

5 00:04:52.070 00:05:00.160 Ashwini Sharma: This weekend, I think, I’ll be taking my kids to a dance practice, aerobics practice,

6 00:05:00.770 00:05:03.190 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, it’s going to be occupied this weekend.

7 00:05:03.630 00:05:06.430 Brylle Girang: Oh, okay, wow. How many…

8 00:05:06.430 00:05:08.170 Ashwini Sharma: Tomorrow a holiday, by the way?

9 00:05:09.220 00:05:13.490 Brylle Girang: Tomorrow, let me double check that for Breedforge, right?

10 00:05:14.630 00:05:15.660 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah.

11 00:05:18.250 00:05:22.000 Ashwini Sharma: It’s the International Labor’s Day, or something like that, right?

12 00:05:22.000 00:05:22.780 Brylle Girang: Yes.

13 00:05:22.780 00:05:25.870 Ashwini Sharma: I just wanted to confirm if it does or not.

14 00:05:28.830 00:05:31.300 Brylle Girang: Let me check that door.

15 00:05:36.230 00:05:38.340 Brylle Girang: No, it’s not.

16 00:05:38.340 00:05:38.890 Ashwini Sharma: Okay.

17 00:05:39.020 00:05:39.690 Brylle Girang: Yeah.

18 00:05:39.870 00:05:43.730 Brylle Girang: It is an observance, but it is not a holiday.

19 00:05:44.300 00:05:47.060 Ashwini Sharma: Okay, how about in Philippines? Is it a holiday over there?

20 00:05:48.230 00:05:53.749 Brylle Girang: I actually am not… Oh, it is, it is, it is a holiday.

21 00:05:53.750 00:05:54.240 Ashwini Sharma: It is.

22 00:05:54.240 00:05:54.690 Brylle Girang: Sure.

23 00:05:55.740 00:05:58.109 Brylle Girang: It doesn’t… it doesn’t work for us here.

24 00:05:58.110 00:05:59.899 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

25 00:06:00.210 00:06:00.609 Brylle Girang: How many.

26 00:06:00.610 00:06:01.090 Ashwini Sharma: Because the…

27 00:06:01.090 00:06:01.630 Brylle Girang: have.

28 00:06:02.130 00:06:03.010 Ashwini Sharma: I have to.

29 00:06:03.430 00:06:04.610 Brylle Girang: Oh, wow. And how…

30 00:06:04.610 00:06:05.530 Ashwini Sharma: How about you?

31 00:06:06.200 00:06:09.199 Ashwini Sharma: One is 12, the other one is 7.

32 00:06:09.490 00:06:12.719 Brylle Girang: Oh, wow. I don’t have… I don’t have kids yet.

33 00:06:13.060 00:06:18.050 Brylle Girang: So, I’m still fairly young, and I don’t have any plans yet.

34 00:06:18.050 00:06:20.499 Ashwini Sharma: Oh, okay, cool, cool, but you got married.

35 00:06:20.750 00:06:21.860 Brylle Girang: No, not yet.

36 00:06:21.860 00:06:25.770 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah.

37 00:06:25.770 00:06:26.850 Brylle Girang: Exactly, exactly.

38 00:06:26.850 00:06:27.850 Ashwini Sharma: Okay, yeah.

39 00:06:27.850 00:06:47.580 Brylle Girang: Yeah, so, Ashwini, I just wanted to check in on you. I wanted to see how you’re doing, how we can help you better, what challenges are you having. You know, this is going to be a really open conversation, so I want to make sure that I get everything that I need from you to make sure that we support you a lot better, okay?

40 00:06:48.420 00:06:57.299 Brylle Girang: Yeah, so I wanted to start with, you know, how are you doing? Let’s focus on, like, work-wise. How are you doing with your tasks? What are your challenges?

41 00:06:58.630 00:07:05.579 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, with the task, I am completing the tasks that are assigned. Sometimes it takes a little bit more time, because

42 00:07:05.820 00:07:12.009 Ashwini Sharma: It’s kind of ambiguous, not… it lacks clarity on what we want, the outcome, right?

43 00:07:12.310 00:07:22.610 Ashwini Sharma: So in those cases, it’s taking more time, even with the usage of AI tools, but I’ve increased my uses of cursor a lot, right, compared to what I was doing, so…

44 00:07:22.930 00:07:27.389 Ashwini Sharma: Things are moving faster than what it used to.

45 00:07:28.240 00:07:39.630 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, that’s, but yeah, my overall hours are, slightly less, because the number of tasks are also less that are assigned, so I try to complete them, and

46 00:07:40.050 00:07:45.679 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, I’ll get more tasks from Avish as I complete one, and then move over to the other one.

47 00:07:46.330 00:07:46.650 Brylle Girang: Okay.

48 00:07:46.650 00:07:48.559 Ashwini Sharma: That’s… that’s what I’ve planned here.

49 00:07:48.970 00:07:55.809 Brylle Girang: Okay, so I get that. What if your challenge is that tasks are sometimes ambiguous, which takes up more time?

50 00:07:55.910 00:08:03.129 Brylle Girang: Can you tell me more about this? Like, in linear, do you feel like the linear tasks do not have enough context?

51 00:08:03.130 00:08:08.539 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, yeah, that is the main issue, right? It’s just one statement in linear, and then…

52 00:08:09.040 00:08:14.740 Ashwini Sharma: Sometimes you have to go into a transcript meeting and try to figure out, like, what exactly it might.

53 00:08:14.740 00:08:15.060 Brylle Girang: Okay.

54 00:08:15.060 00:08:16.039 Ashwini Sharma: trying to mean.

55 00:08:16.280 00:08:19.750 Ashwini Sharma: And then also, like, sometimes it’s, you know.

56 00:08:20.250 00:08:26.219 Ashwini Sharma: Not very clear, right, from the transcript, because there is something that was in the head of the person who was speaking.

57 00:08:26.350 00:08:30.560 Ashwini Sharma: And that might not have been clear on the transcript as well.

58 00:08:30.710 00:08:33.880 Ashwini Sharma: So… Yeah, those things are there.

59 00:08:34.440 00:08:40.999 Brylle Girang: Okay, okay, that’s clear. Aside from that, aside from tasks being ambiguous, do you find anything else challenging?

60 00:08:42.110 00:08:50.070 Ashwini Sharma: Other than that, I don’t think anything is… So challenging, no.

61 00:08:50.400 00:08:52.650 Ashwini Sharma: I’m doing things as they come.

62 00:08:52.770 00:08:55.520 Ashwini Sharma: And that’s it, yeah?

63 00:08:56.260 00:08:57.370 Brylle Girang: Okay, okay.

64 00:08:57.570 00:09:01.740 Brylle Girang: Gotcha, perfect. Yeah, also, I have, you know.

65 00:09:02.110 00:09:05.750 Brylle Girang: I have been seeing that we might have challenges with

66 00:09:06.230 00:09:18.780 Brylle Girang: With some… with alignment with a wish, I think. This is what… this is based on my vantage point. Let’s say one example is… are the peers that we’re sending out that are not being…

67 00:09:19.180 00:09:20.830 Brylle Girang: That does, like, go through.

68 00:09:20.990 00:09:28.430 Brylle Girang: the required, maybe, verification or approval process. Can you tell me more about that? Am I understanding it correctly?

69 00:09:28.840 00:09:32.529 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, sometimes the PRs were not being reviewed.

70 00:09:32.650 00:09:41.210 Ashwini Sharma: And right now, like, the magic spoon, right? Those PRs which he’s reviewing, and I hope he will continue doing that.

71 00:09:42.180 00:09:44.190 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, that’s,

72 00:09:45.150 00:09:56.039 Ashwini Sharma: earlier in the… I think this was coming from the Magic Spoon context, right? Earlier, which was not very much involved, and I kind of… I was pushing the PRs, and there were some issues with the PRs that I pushed.

73 00:09:56.120 00:10:08.939 Ashwini Sharma: there are some hard codings that were involved, and I forgot to take it off, right? So, I think that… that’s where this, overall context is coming from. But right now, Abish is kind of reviewing all the PRs on the Magic Spoon side.

74 00:10:09.290 00:10:13.709 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, hopefully that should take care of things.

75 00:10:14.470 00:10:17.869 Brylle Girang: Okay, how do you feel about the support that OASIS is giving you?

76 00:10:19.770 00:10:21.240 Ashwini Sharma: He’s trying his best.

77 00:10:21.860 00:10:27.980 Ashwini Sharma: But he is a busy person, so obviously he can’t be involved in all the aspects.

78 00:10:28.510 00:10:31.990 Ashwini Sharma: But yeah, it’s okay.

79 00:10:33.060 00:10:33.720 Brylle Girang: Okay.

80 00:10:34.010 00:10:37.030 Brylle Girang: Gotcha. Let me… Just a moment.

81 00:10:37.690 00:10:48.909 Ashwini Sharma: And then ingestion, right, into the warehouse. So it’s not a… like, we do that all the time, but… but we use tools like Polyatomic, or we use tools like, you know, Fivetran to do that.

82 00:10:49.090 00:11:00.420 Ashwini Sharma: Okay. In this particular case, it was a… it was a completely different tool that I was making, and sort of a, you know, kind of urgency in these cases will…

83 00:11:01.400 00:11:05.240 Ashwini Sharma: sometimes lead to… Bad pushes.

84 00:11:05.620 00:11:06.250 Ashwini Sharma: Dots.

85 00:11:06.250 00:11:06.630 Brylle Girang: Awesome.

86 00:11:06.630 00:11:09.780 Ashwini Sharma: In the code, right? Yeah.

87 00:11:09.780 00:11:16.209 Brylle Girang: we’re… where did you feel the urgency? I mean, did the client tag this as urgent, or…

88 00:11:17.640 00:11:27.369 Ashwini Sharma: Probably the client did, right? But yeah, it didn’t come to me directly as a client. Sometimes, yeah, let’s try to do this fast, right? This kind of things that comes up, and…

89 00:11:27.950 00:11:31.160 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, it comes with almost all the clients, right?

90 00:11:31.580 00:11:39.080 Ashwini Sharma: I mean, like, a few days back, there was a really, urgent PR that he sent out, right? And then I gave it, and then it turned out to be…

91 00:11:39.430 00:11:54.439 Ashwini Sharma: not what he was expecting, so it got reverted back. And then right now, yesterday, the requirements were being more clear, right? So I did that PR without even full context of… because there is no context over there at all, right, in the linear ticket.

92 00:11:54.730 00:11:59.120 Ashwini Sharma: And right now, when I’m getting more context, then it makes more sense to…

93 00:11:59.350 00:12:04.649 Ashwini Sharma: you know, create that PR properly, right, make the changes properly, do the data modeling properly, and…

94 00:12:05.620 00:12:07.710 Ashwini Sharma: And, and provide a proper solution.

95 00:12:08.190 00:12:10.599 Brylle Girang: Okay, okay, gotcha.

96 00:12:10.890 00:12:12.030 Brylle Girang: So…

97 00:12:12.300 00:12:27.150 Brylle Girang: I’m just… I’m just trying to absorb that. So you feel that with the urgency, with how fast the clients want… the client wants things to move, the mistakes that we… that we are encountering are a bit inevitable. It’s either, you know, we move fast.

98 00:12:27.270 00:12:30.299 Brylle Girang: Or we make sure that it’s 100% clean.

99 00:12:30.710 00:12:32.770 Brylle Girang: Am I… did I understand it right?

100 00:12:32.770 00:12:37.270 Ashwini Sharma: Okay, can you repeat that once again? Sorry.

101 00:12:37.550 00:12:41.820 Brylle Girang: So, with the urgency of the things that we’re doing.

102 00:12:42.020 00:12:47.379 Brylle Girang: There are mistakes that are maybe being overlooked, because we need to move fast.

103 00:12:47.380 00:12:48.540 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, yeah.

104 00:12:48.890 00:12:49.850 Brylle Girang: Okay.

105 00:12:49.850 00:12:50.590 Ashwini Sharma: Right.

106 00:12:50.590 00:12:51.260 Brylle Girang: Okay.

107 00:12:51.470 00:12:52.770 Brylle Girang: Gotcha.

108 00:12:56.770 00:13:02.440 Brylle Girang: All right, gotcha. And how’s the feedback loop between you and Awish here? So, when Awish gives feedback…

109 00:13:02.440 00:13:06.330 Ashwini Sharma: He is giving feedback, yeah, on and off.

110 00:13:06.850 00:13:07.540 Brylle Girang: Okay.

111 00:13:07.670 00:13:11.199 Brylle Girang: And how… how do you, like, how do you, how do you approach that feedback?

112 00:13:12.350 00:13:14.630 Ashwini Sharma: I think it’s a direct feedback.

113 00:13:14.790 00:13:15.990 Ashwini Sharma: Overall called.

114 00:13:16.820 00:13:17.510 Brylle Girang: Okay.

115 00:13:18.610 00:13:23.169 Brylle Girang: Gotcha. Okay, so I think, what I’m hearing from you is that

116 00:13:23.740 00:13:33.490 Brylle Girang: you will be more involved, or you and Awash will be more involved when it comes to the feedback loop between these PRs. You’ll make sure that before PRs are launched.

117 00:13:33.650 00:13:35.950 Brylle Girang: There’s an actual review process, is that right?

118 00:13:35.950 00:13:37.120 Ashwini Sharma: Right, yeah, yeah.

119 00:13:37.370 00:13:43.049 Brylle Girang: What are your expectations here? Are you expecting that Awash will reach out to you, or will you be reaching out to Awash?

120 00:13:43.270 00:13:43.860 Brylle Girang: proactive.

121 00:13:43.860 00:13:48.340 Ashwini Sharma: No, I generally tag him in a PR and then send it out, right?

122 00:13:48.880 00:13:54.829 Ashwini Sharma: He has asked me to put it in a channel, right, whenever I do something, so I’m putting it in a channel.

123 00:13:55.090 00:13:59.239 Ashwini Sharma: And yeah, but once I do that, I expect…

124 00:13:59.500 00:14:02.589 Ashwini Sharma: Him to, you know, provide review comments on that, right?

125 00:14:02.590 00:14:03.100 Brylle Girang: Yeah.

126 00:14:03.100 00:14:05.689 Ashwini Sharma: That is what I expect.

127 00:14:06.180 00:14:06.840 Brylle Girang: Okay.

128 00:14:06.840 00:14:10.860 Ashwini Sharma: Or they can, you know, call me and then discuss the PR at that point of time.

129 00:14:11.350 00:14:12.560 Brylle Girang: Okay, perfect.

130 00:14:13.770 00:14:19.170 Brylle Girang: Okay, and then I heard… Earlier that you have been using Cursor more.

131 00:14:20.220 00:14:22.369 Brylle Girang: How does it go?

132 00:14:22.530 00:14:26.760 Brylle Girang: Like, do you… do you… how do you make sure that the quality’s still up?

133 00:14:27.480 00:14:28.380 Ashwini Sharma: We’re still a suspect.

134 00:14:28.380 00:14:29.630 Brylle Girang: When you say cursor.

135 00:14:29.630 00:14:33.339 Ashwini Sharma: Right, right. You have to review it again, what the cursor has done.

136 00:14:33.440 00:14:39.869 Ashwini Sharma: Sometimes it does good work, but sometimes it sorts of, you know, puts any crap out there, so…

137 00:14:39.870 00:14:40.420 Brylle Girang: Yeah.

138 00:14:41.210 00:14:44.620 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, that kind of review has to be done.

139 00:14:45.510 00:14:51.829 Ashwini Sharma: But yeah, if you give it a proper context, right, this is what I’m saying, right? When the context is not…

140 00:14:52.220 00:14:56.940 Ashwini Sharma: Not there, it’s going to output anything that it thinks should be done.

141 00:14:57.910 00:14:59.060 Brylle Girang: Yeah, okay.

142 00:14:59.060 00:14:59.440 Ashwini Sharma: So…

143 00:14:59.440 00:15:02.740 Brylle Girang: Are you connected to the BrainForge platform in cursor?

144 00:15:02.740 00:15:04.330 Ashwini Sharma: I am connected, yes.

145 00:15:04.330 00:15:09.629 Brylle Girang: Okay, great. And, have you, have you tried doing, like, the courses that I launch as part of L&D?

146 00:15:10.920 00:15:12.960 Ashwini Sharma: Sorry, sorry, I didn’t get that.

147 00:15:12.960 00:15:20.300 Brylle Girang: I launched… I launched some courses as part of learning and development. Have you had the chance to, like, go through those?

148 00:15:20.680 00:15:26.280 Ashwini Sharma: No, no, I haven’t heard that. I was planning to go through it. In fact, I had started something.

149 00:15:26.870 00:15:27.520 Brylle Girang: Okay.

150 00:15:27.520 00:15:32.820 Ashwini Sharma: But then other things came up, so I could not complete it. I’ll again continue doing it.

151 00:15:32.820 00:15:33.310 Brylle Girang: Okay, yeah.

152 00:15:33.640 00:15:34.240 Brylle Girang: No worries.

153 00:15:34.240 00:15:38.840 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, I’ve seen some of the courses in the platform.

154 00:15:39.060 00:15:53.009 Brylle Girang: I think there is one that’s going to be really helpful for us here. There are two courses that I launched. It’s Quick Start, and then AI Accelerator. The Quick Start are more for, you know, people getting started. I don’t think you need that.

155 00:15:53.100 00:16:00.310 Brylle Girang: The AI Accelerator one, it’s meant to ensure that we use AI to maximize our efficiency and speed.

156 00:16:00.450 00:16:03.549 Brylle Girang: While at the same time, maintaining the quality that we want.

157 00:16:04.010 00:16:04.450 Ashwini Sharma: Okay.

158 00:16:04.450 00:16:10.590 Brylle Girang: If you have time, try checking it out. I would love your feedback, and that’s going to be really helpful. Okay?

159 00:16:10.590 00:16:12.010 Ashwini Sharma: Sure, I’ll do that, yeah.

160 00:16:12.320 00:16:18.460 Brylle Girang: Alright, gotcha. So here’s… I’m going to be really straight here, Ashmini.

161 00:16:18.670 00:16:24.789 Brylle Girang: I think we… One of the main problems that we’re chat- that we’re having right now

162 00:16:25.230 00:16:38.909 Brylle Girang: is, you know, the quality of the work that we’re… that we’re shelling out, that includes the PRs, and I know that we’re trying to mitigate that by ensuring that PRs are reviewed by OAH. Yeah.

163 00:16:39.210 00:16:41.450 Brylle Girang: And that’s… that’s… that’s what you’re doing.

164 00:16:41.590 00:16:54.080 Brylle Girang: On our end, I am also very well aware that we have lots of things to improve on to ensure that you can do more quality work, and you know, that includes the description of the tickets.

165 00:16:54.720 00:17:08.590 Brylle Girang: We’re trying to be better at that, like, if AI creates tickets, it should be 100% clear, should not be ambiguous. Those are the things that we’re trying to improve, just to make sure that you have everything, you have all the ammo that you need.

166 00:17:10.220 00:17:21.019 Brylle Girang: At the same time, I want to make sure that you and Awash has this good relationship when it comes to, like, the feedback loop, making sure that, you know, once he gives feedback.

167 00:17:21.099 00:17:34.670 Brylle Girang: it’s absorbed properly, and I also want to make sure that you understand that you can also give feedback to Oish. Or you can also give feedback to me if something’s not working. If you think that

168 00:17:35.120 00:17:40.470 Brylle Girang: Something’s not working well, there are misunderstandings, there are…

169 00:17:40.630 00:17:45.990 Brylle Girang: miscommunications, please let me know, and I’m more than happy to jump in and help you out there.

170 00:17:46.430 00:17:46.760 Ashwini Sharma: Sure.

171 00:17:46.760 00:17:50.819 Brylle Girang: Also, I was talking with Oish, and…

172 00:17:50.920 00:17:54.989 Brylle Girang: He’s really, really open to working sessions, if you need it.

173 00:17:55.310 00:18:02.060 Brylle Girang: But, with the wish being NSL, and the things that he’s working on right now.

174 00:18:02.230 00:18:07.619 Brylle Girang: I think that you need to be the one to trigger that. So, if you need help.

175 00:18:07.770 00:18:13.599 Brylle Girang: Reach out to OVH, ask for a working session. That should come from you, and that’s my expectation.

176 00:18:13.600 00:18:14.310 Ashwini Sharma: Okay.

177 00:18:14.540 00:18:15.640 Brylle Girang: Does that make sense?

178 00:18:15.640 00:18:16.240 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, yeah.

179 00:18:16.670 00:18:18.279 Brylle Girang: Okay, gotcha.

180 00:18:19.030 00:18:26.180 Brylle Girang: Yeah, so, that’s just it. I wanted to check in on you, I wanted to understand how we can better improve things.

181 00:18:26.700 00:18:31.590 Brylle Girang: We are working… we are working really hard in ensuring that our IACs are

182 00:18:32.060 00:18:34.930 Brylle Girang: Are pushing out really, really good work.

183 00:18:35.050 00:18:43.030 Brylle Girang: You know, I appreciate that you have self-reflected, and we have action plans on the things that we’re missing.

184 00:18:43.140 00:18:49.419 Brylle Girang: validations, approvals, reviews, so I think those are the main things that we need to improve on.

185 00:18:49.950 00:18:50.480 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah.

186 00:18:50.930 00:18:51.490 Brylle Girang: Okay?

187 00:18:52.510 00:18:55.799 Brylle Girang: Yeah, is there anything else that you want to share with me?

188 00:18:55.800 00:18:57.460 Ashwini Sharma: No, I don’t have anything.

189 00:18:57.780 00:19:05.820 Brylle Girang: Okay, great. All right. Yeah, thank you, thank you so much, thank you so much, Ashwini. This has been great. If I need anything, I’m just going to reach out to you again, okay?

190 00:19:05.820 00:19:07.099 Ashwini Sharma: Sure, sure, yeah, definitely.

191 00:19:07.260 00:19:07.880 Brylle Girang: Bye-bye.

192 00:19:07.880 00:19:08.840 Ashwini Sharma: Alright, bye.