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@ryxcommar @DJ_CURFEW I will simply 1000x output

@DJ_CURFEW 100x output means you want your employees to produce in about 2 and a half days what they would have produced in a normal calendar year. If you're actually able to 100x productivity then it really begs the question of what the hell you were doing before.

Today we reduced headcount by 22%. The business is the strongest it's ever been. So I think it's important to be direct about what I'm seeing and why. First, I made this decision and I own it. I did it because the way to operate at the highest level of productivity is changing, and to win the future, ClickUp needs to change with it. Second, this wasn't about cutting costs. Most savings from this change will flow directly back into the people who stay. We'll be introducing million-dollar salary bands. If you create outsized impact using AI, you'll be paid outside of traditional bands. Most importantly, I have the deepest gratitude for those affected. We're doing this from a position of strength specifically so we can take care of people properly. Everyone affected receives a package aimed at honoring their contributions and easing the transition. I only see two options: wait for this to play out gradually in the market or be honest about what I'm seeing and act proactively. THE 100X ORGANIZATION The primary change is that we're restructuring around what I call 100x org. The goal is 100x output. The roles required to build at the highest level are fundamentally different than they were a year ago. Incremental improvements to existing systems won't get us there. We need new ones. That means creating enough disruption to rebuild rather than iterate on what's already broken. The common narrative is that AI makes everyone more productive. It doesn't. Many of the workflows of today, if left unchanged, create bottlenecks in AI systems. These roles will evolve. But waiting for that to happen naturally means falling behind now. The 100x org is actually heavily dependent on people - infinitely more than today. This is only possible with 10x people that have embraced and adopted new ways of working. THE BUILDERS, AGENT MANAGERS, AND FRONT-LINERS — THE BUILDERS: 10X ENGINEERS I don't think most companies have internalized what's actually happening with AI in engineering. The common narrative is that AI makes all engineers more productive. That may be true in isolation, but at an organization level - that is the farthest thing from reality. Here's what we've validated recently at ClickUp: the great engineers, the ones who can orchestrate, architect, and review, are becoming 100x engineers. They're not writing code. They're directing agents that write code. The skill is judgment. AI makes the best engineers wildly more productive, and everyone else using AI slows these engineers down. Think about it - the bottlenecks are (1) orchestration - telling AI what to do, and (2) reviewing - what AI did. Everything is leapfrogged and no longer needed. So who do you want orchestrating and reviewing code? And how do you want your best engineers to spend their time? If your best engineers are spending time reviewing other people's code, then this is inherently an inefficient bottleneck. These engineers can review their agent's code much faster than reviewing human code. The new world is about enabling your 10x engineers to become 100x. The wrong strategy is to push every engineer to use infinite tokens. Companies doing this are celebrating 500% more pull requests. But customer outcomes don't match the volume of code being generated. I call this the great reckoning of AI coding, and every company will face this soon if not already. More code is just another bottleneck to the best engineers, and ultimately to your company's impact as well. — THE BUILDERS: 10X PRODUCT MANAGERS Product management and design roles are merging. Designers that have customer focus, become more like product managers. And product managers that have intuition for UX become more like designers. The bottleneck of user research is gone. It takes us just one mention of an agent to kickoff research and analyze results. The bottleneck of product <> design iteration is also gone. The product builder iterates on their own, along with agents and skills that ensure alignment with quality and strategy. Also controversial today - I believe that the wrong strategy is to have your PMs shipping code - that just introduces another bottleneck that the best engineers will waste their time on. To be clear, PMs should be coding but they should do this in a playground to iterate, validate, and scope. That code should not go to production. Everything outside of managing systems, orchestrating AI, and reviewing output becomes a bottleneck. That's why the other roles that are critical along with these are the systems managers (to reduce bottlenecks) along with a bottleneck you can't replace - customer meeting time. — THE SYSTEM MANAGERS Ironically, the people that automate their jobs with AI will always have a job. They become owners of the AI systems - agent managers. We have many examples of these people at ClickUp. The underlying systems in which we operate are absolutely critical to get right. I think most companies are delusional to think they can iterate on existing systems and compete in this new world. You must create enough disruption so that old systems are deprecated entirely. If there's any definition for 'AI native' that's what it is. — THE FRONT-LINERS In a world that will become saturated with AI communication, the human touch will matter more than anything to customers. This is a bottleneck that you shouldn't replace - even when agents are high enough quality to do video meetings. One-on-one meeting time with customers is something that shouldn't be automated. The systems around the meetings should be - so that front-liners spend nearly 100% of their time with customers. REWARDING 100X IMPACT In a world where companies are able to do so much more with less, where does that excess money go? In our case, much of the savings in this new operating model will flow directly back to those that enabled it. We must reward people that create productivity accordingly. This aligns incentives on both sides. Plus, in a world where your best people create 100x impact, you can't afford to lose them. You should aim to retain these employees for decades. The context they have and their ability to efficiently orchestrate and review will be nearly impossible to replace. Compensation bands of today should be thrown out the door. We're introducing $1 million cash/year salary bands with a path available to nearly everyone in the company if they produce 100x impact by creating or managing AI systems. THE FUTURE Nearly every company will make changes like these. The ones that do it proactively will define what comes next. The future is not fewer people. It's different work, new roles, and better rewards for those who embrace it. We're already seeing entirely new roles emerge, like Agent Managers, that didn't exist a year ago. ClickUp is positioning to lead this shift, not just internally, but for our customers too. I've never been more certain about where we're headed.

@cay_tega @mattyglesias @jbarro Times have changed

@mattyglesias @jbarro I played D1 football in college. I didn't play until I was in 7th grade. A high school classmate of mine, the same track, played in the NFL for a year. Puberty does something to muscle memory. There is nothing these kids learn pre seventh grade that makes a difference.

I have never heard any parent speak positively about this travel-team private-league sports stuff. So why do they have their kids participate in it? (The answer is rarely "my kid is headed for D1") Don't schools have teams anymore? theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/…

@Willenation @TheStalwart Why would labs keep the cheaper models hosted and available? They will be rapidly decommissioned

The important thing to remember is that the trend of constantly moving to new models will stop soon. Frontier models are getting good enough for most white collar tasks, so with each new generation there are fewer use cases that benefit from upgrading. Eventually SOTA models will only be used for cutting edge research, while the AI agent handling your AR process or whatever will still be on Haiku 5.

So is the correct read on this chart that individual tokens (same model etc) are still getting cheaper. But that as models improve, users are buying COSTLIER tokens in HIGHER volume. And that this latter effect is moving the PPT needle more than longterm token disinflation?

@DeepDishEnjoyer Worth it just to be on the safe side

the people to my left used a phone calculator to multiply 7 by 2.

@theoluminati Trump strat doesn’t work for Dems, they’ll eat you alive

what hit pieces could they even pull if the worst of it’s all public, when you think about it. the Trump strat

should I run for office on Long Island and convert my twitter account into my official candidate page and not delete anything? just leave my liberal socialist groyperous shitposts up in full view of God and everyone. aura I think

@pitdesi Hopefully they realized the need for a phat $2k sign on bonus for me to harvest and cancel

Robinhood announced a platinum card that we thought was too much of a coupon book. They took the feedback and are retooling!

@JeremiahDJohns Seems totally ordinary for the guy

It feels like cheating to put Bryan in the bad takes bracket, but how can we possibly exclude "here is my wife's vaginal microbiome report card"

@pitdesi So just send him an INR stablecoin

How can stablecoins reduce remittance fees to zero? makes no sense to me whatsoever. The bulk of remittances $ is migrant workers sending money to family, from US->Mexico, US->India, Gulf->India Stablecoins can make the money-movement leg much cheaper/near-zero but that isn't the bulk of the cost! You still need cash-out, FX, compliance/KYC, fraud controls, customer support, and distribution. When I send money to my cousin in a village in India, there is nothing he can do with USDC. He needs to get the money out into INR and that last mile is where most of the cost lies. Stablecoins can make remittances much cheaper but nowhere near zero.

@BucknSF I like starting off a notion agent and watching the whole window crash out 30 seconds later

the number of live enterprise agents doing anything complex outside of Claude code/codex is virtually zero. big theme of next year.

@dylan522p Damn you’re paying full price??

How close are models to building a perfect Slack clone with less than $50,000 of tokens? I feel like not that far...

@BucknSF In house model better get a whole lot better first

the immediate effect fwiw will be a major step up in revs...just question of curve after that

cursor is subsidizing tokens for customers and will stop doing that this summer, because they make no money. will be interesting to see what happens to growth at that point. bull case is it drives demand for their in-house model.

@quantian1 Pat is insufferable

Calling Boom an airplane company is marginally more optimistic than calling me the greatest living American novelist, but only just.

@SecWar Moron

The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.

@justalexoki Terrifying

extroverts are fucking insane man

@theoluminati wsj is boomer slop

‘a darling of the anti-Trump movement’. Eric Swalwell. thank god I’m autistic about politics, I don’t even want to know the kind of bullshit I’d believe just from reading relatively reputable news sources otherwise

@justalexoki Computer parts

what are some good purchases for someone just getting into purchasing things

@where_is_hardo Any entity that can guarantee safe passage through such a critical waterway is providing enormous economic value. Rewarding that service is peak capitalism

I’ll keep it Strait with you: In a waterway so key for commodities, a tolling agreement only makes sense…

@DeepDishEnjoyer not me

the dumbest, most-entrenched in the dunning-kruger-swamp person you will ever talk to on this site

@tenobrus It’s March, holidays are over and budgets approved (lots of cos have Feb 1 start of year)

job market narrative violation: my weekly inbound from tech recruiters has ~doubled over the last 2 months

@metzgov You’re making the mistake of assuming it would be enforced equally in all localities

has anybody attempted an analysis of which party would benefit from the SAVE Act passing? because it is not clear to me that it would be the GOP