BAe 146/RJ brakes, which I think were carbon? - long time ago now - didn't do much until they warmed up. I got used to applying gentle braking early in the landing roll to heat them, then just as the braking coefficient rapidly increased, you could reduce the pedal pressure but the braking force would still increase. With practice you could modulate the brakes quite well to give smooth braking and turn off at the exit you wanted.
And as someone has said;
reduce the pedal pressure as the aircraft speed approaches zero, so that by the time you have stopped, you have virtually no brake pressure. Much smoother
