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Brainstorm the funnel with the codebase as ground truth
Put this idea into your own words: "The codebase tells you what is, not what users want."
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Brainstorm the funnel with the codebase as ground truththe code is the most honest source
Before you go ask a customer or a data scientist anything, ask the product. When you're reasoning about a funnel - say BugbotCursor's automated PR reviewer that posts inline findings and can push fix commits from isolated VMs. Press Enter for the full definition. onboarding and activation - Cursor can describe the status quo exhaustively: every feature-flag nuance, the data states a user can fall into, whether an analytics event is even instrumented the way you assumed and why an inconsistency exists in the numbers. That used to mean pulling an engineer or staring at code for hours. Now it's a near-instant, grounded answer you feed straight into the product decision.
“I'm actually just like brainstorming with Cursor on that because it can basically just tell me what is the status quo very exhaustively much more than I could.”
The codebase tells you what is, not what users want. Brainstorming with Cursor replaces the hours of code-archaeology and the "is this event even firing?" round-trips, not the customer conversation. Use it to walk into discovery already knowing how the funnel actually behaves, so your questions get sharper instead of basic.