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@JeremiahDJohns I’m still waiting for the other shoe to drop on long term effects. The upside is that so many are taking them the signal should be large as long as they aren’t actively ignoring it. (As has been done in the recent past)

I find the small segment of people who are anti GLP-1 (at least, I think it's small for now) fascinating. There are some people who find themselves anti GLP-1 because they view it as cheating. Typically conservative coded, natural=good crunchy vibes. Losing weight only counts if it's hard, etc. But there's a mirror image (typically left-coded) where they've taken the defect of being overweight and made it somehow a noble part of identity. And doctors are villains if they try to fix the defect with a tool instead of sympathizing and understanding. Both are crunchy-leaning, both have elements of anti-modernity. But what unites them in a horseshoe-esque way is the instinct that anything new is suspect, that elite institutions are more likely to try to cheat and poison you than actually help you. You don't trust them, they're just trying to make money off you. It's a sort of ur-populist mindset that extends beyond politics and hits people all over the political spectrum.

@trikcode Moving so fast you can’t see them.

I haven't seen a C++ vibecoder yet. I wonder why?

@zetalyrae The rocket she tells you not to worry about.

I never realized how tiny the Rocket Lab Electron is. 18m tall, 13t GTOW. So tiny!!!

you will have free reign btw

@deaflibertarian Hah… crazy coincidence I picked that one. Coincidence right??

@deaflibertarian @multiplanet1

@multiplanet1 It's an INTJ thing you wouldn't understand, unless you're an INTJ

Elon Musk's first wife once described what it's like to watch him fail. She said he doesn't react the way normal people react. When a rocket explodes, most people in the room go silent. Some cry. Some start calculating the financial damage. Musk pulls out his phone and starts making calls. Not emotional calls. Engineering calls. "What failed. When can we fix it. When's the next launch." His voice doesn't change. His face doesn't change. The rocket that just cost $60 million is already in the past. The next one is all that exists. She said it was the most unsettling thing she'd ever witnessed. Not because he was cold. Because he genuinely wasn't affected. The failure didn't register as failure. It registered as data. An experiment that produced results. Results that inform the next experiment. This is why he wins. Not because he doesn't fail. He fails more spectacularly than anyone in history. He wins because failure occupies zero psychological space. It enters as data and exits as action. Most people lose not because they fail but because they spend weeks processing the failure before acting again. Musk spends zero seconds. The gap between failure and next attempt is a phone call.

@EddieAnastasia @TRHLofficial I’ve started watching all the V series starting back in the 90s… got to study up.

Is the mask literally slipping?

@AlfredAlfer77 Ever see Requium for a Dream? I’m getting a similar vibe here.

"BRO I've been CODING with Claude nonstop with no sleep for the past 2356 hours I am so productive, I'm getting HUNDREDS of projects done!" Ok but what are the projects? They never say what they are, just that they are making them really fast. What are these people even making?

@DJ_CURFEW @shaolin_flow Drink more coffee.. you should be doing 400x to keep up with the tools that never sleep.

@shaolin_flow We're able to do about 40x the research we did in the past, the goal is certainly hearing the customer more than was possible before. We do have people managing the systems and reviewing to ensure it's accurate.

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.

@pnwguerrilla Luckily had that racial caller id I’ve read so much about. Popular with call-in shows.

Today we scouted for our upcoming bushcrafting event. Upon leaving the forest we spotted a Garmin in the middle of the road. Picked it up, it was activated with a return #. Called the number, White dude who was visiting his brother from Spokane, fell off his bike while him and his brother were up in the hills. He asked if we would just ship it to him and he would Venmo us money for beer and thanked us over and over and said how rare it is that anyone would go through the effort to return something lost. White people shit. WAGMI ATS

@TheDavidPiv @Cernovich How would one gather proof of such activity… theoretically?

My law firm is actively investigating several Fortune 500 companies for discriminating against American workers in favor of foreign nationals. Always happy to hear from whistleblowers or rejected applicants.

@harukaawake I don’t want them in jail.

🇯🇵⛩️ If it turns out that temple/shrine fires in Japan were caused by foreign nationals, what should be the punishment?

@chamath How screwed is the country if so many people can continue to vote themselves free money with no consequences?

this is a simple, elegant and very effective idea. take the taxes of the bottom 50% to zero.

@esrtweet Only net tax payers get a vote. It’s not a new idea but it’s still a good idea.

Jeff, this is another terrible idea that won't die, like UBI. The problem with it is that it creates the wrong political incentives. The higher the "no-taxes" floor goes (and we already have a pretty high one due to the net effect of government transfer payments) the larger the constituency constantly clamoring for more gibs is, and the more difficult it gets to build a political bloc against taxes going even higher on an ever narrower segment of the population. It's a very slippery slope, and the logical outcome is visible in places like California where states are absurdly dependent on tax revenue from a handful of very high earners. Who then respond to incentives and bail out. Goodbye revenue base, hello debt death spiral. This is why a flat tax - no income brackets at all - is the best policy and in the long term they only stable one.

@elonmusk @MarioNawfal My focus areas going forward… - RetardMaxxing - ImposterSyndromeMaxxing - Thriving in this anti-human hellscape.

SpaceX is actively hiring world-class engineers/physicists for SpaceXAI, even if you have zero prior experience in AI. Smart humans figure it out fast. Please send an email with ~3 bullet points demonstrating evidence of exceptional ability to ai_eng@spacex.com.

You're thinking about the Roman empire aren't you?

@zacharyebell Soon

No.

@LizzyStarrrdust Wake me up when you are The menace.

What do I win?

@CCPISASSH0E Their other car is a beemer.

This fills me with murderous rage

@SomeBitchIIKnow @veryvirology Unless their name ends with Clinton someone could be going to prison.

Omg dumpster fire lmao