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@ssbengale @m6502 Everything has hate in its time. We are looking at things with 20/20 hindsight. XP was awesome and underappreciated for its time. Perfect? No. Very good? Yes.

Somebody does not remember the buddy hell that was XP. It makes me nostalgic as well, but I can't deny that it was a buggy mess. Also, to be fair, the veterans of 95 and 98 called XP the playschool or kindergarten OS because of how its bright theme deviated from the more professional look of 95. It's had its fair share of hate in its time as well. Only 7 and 95 deserve to be that high.

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@azwar_rao_says @m6502 Why can I not right click on an external drive in Windows 11 and find an "eject" button in that menu? I need to click on the option to expand into the real menu in order to get the damn eject button.

@m6502 I don’t get it. Why do people hate win 11? It’s modern UI is probably the best in any OS, no doubt better than MAC. MS is improving it day by day. Modern windows UI with support for modern hardware. I feel like hate for Windows is illogical..

@DJ_CURFEW @x_clown_fiesta We have been in AI-land for a while now and all of these amazing advancements that people are able to produce at supposed 10x, 20x speed and efficiency (apparently justifying layoffs) are always "right around the corner" or "in staging but releasing soon".

@x_clown_fiesta Agree. New unified API shipping soon. We’re using in staging

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.

@LogicalThesis @FrankEdge13 Massive capital expenditure is not captured in operating profit, and can make the business unsustainable. That's the question with these companies, can they train models at extreme expense and still have a sustainable return on invested capital.

@FrankEdge13 "Turn an operating profit" seems pretty straightforward

Anthropic being profitable at this stage already means everything in the AI ecosystem goes WAAAAY higher You are underestimating what this means

Massie supported the things that Trump claimed were his agenda during the campaign but which he completely abandoned as President: - “NO NEW WARS” - Release the Epstein files - Lower the debt Massie had to go because Trump did a 180 and now supports: - Endless foreign wars - Shutting down the Epstein investigation - Exploding the debt to record levels

@JonJonGoods @ggreenwald Massie literally tried to obstruct Trump's agenda. Snake and phony.

If the AIPAC/Adelson crowd wants someone out of Congress for disloyalty to Israel, they will be out of Congress. There are a few exceptions due to unusual districts, but not many. The Israel Lobby has unlimited funding and will spend limitlessly to expunge the blasphemous.

@inferencepoint @jonathanbylos @RachelTobac The relevance of this connector is that it offers ongoing insight into your recent bank transactions. That offers a unique attack vector beyond what is available by someone uploading the occasional aged financial document.

"phishing you about exact charges you just made on vacation, & draining your life savings. *That's not something I want to be able to do!* But for many ChatGPT users, it's something I could currently do easily, and this financial integration just made it even faster and more believable" Her own quoted post. Sure does sound like she's saying she can pivot to hacking my bank account through this connector no? No mention of accessing and using ancillary information. The focus is specifically on the connector

Just worked w/ @CNN on a piece about why I wouldn't upload full financial docs (tax docs, statements, etc) to AI tools due to leakage & hacking risk. I don't recommend connecting bank accounts to AI tools. It becomes a 1 stop shop for attackers looking to drain your accounts🤖💸

She is not claiming that this specific connector allows direct access to a bank account. She is making a broader point that people shouldn't be adding sensitive financial data into their ChatGPT accounts at all. This connector just adds to the financial data available to OpenAI and potentially stored with your account. The difference between ChatGPT and any random budgeting app is that those budgeting apps do not contain any extraordinary context about the rest of your life. A hacker breaching Mint or YNAB is going to get the same data as what OpenAI gets with this connector, but Mint or YNAB does not contain a bunch of private conversations regarding your life and relationships, professional problems, and various other sensitive secrets that people freely upload to OpenAI. The specific threat vector of concern here is that your bank data + all the other information about your life, thoughts, problems, etc. uniquely positions an attacker to leverage that data against you, and do so in ugly ways (blackmail, extortion, etc.) "Send me 1BTC or I will send your wife the conversation you had with ChatGPT about how you are not happy with your sex life." ChatGPT enables that attack uniquely. Other budgeting apps don't. The idea that Anthropic/OpenAI haven't yet been part of a data breach so we should give them unlimited trust to protect our data is actually quite wild from an opsec and infosec perspective. And it's not entirely true: last year OpenAI had to address an issue with shared chats unknowingly being indexed by Google, and there was an issue in 2023 where people were briefly able to see other users' conversation titles in the sidebar. No company is immune from breaches and users should act with the assumption that a breach or leak will occur at some point.

You're proving my point. People are uploading completely unfettered data. Why pearl clutch about support for connecting bank accounts via Plaid and making it sound like you're just ripe for a hack? Lol. I took issue with the original author making it sound like it's any more or less safe than literally what most people are already doing in the chat apps This release by OpenAi changes nothing about your risk tolerance or your exposure. The whole premise is on "you should 2FA your chatgpt account". Doi I'd rather people just think about securing their own account rather than signing up for budgeting apps or Xyz other apps that are probably way more likely to be part of a data breach How many reports of Anthropic/OpenAI being part of a data breach?

@inferencepoint @jonathanbylos @RachelTobac People are uploading comprehensive details of their entire life: financial documents, contracts, secrets and technical data, and also using it as a therapist, filling it with information about their innermost thoughts, relationship issues, etc… it is ABSOLUTELY a unique vector.

Astroturf because I don't agree with someone fear mongering about "hacks" making it sound like Chatgpt is any different a attack vector than anything else? 😂. I hope you have the same energy for literally every budgeting app in the world and are fully off Facebook, Google and TikTok for your data collection fears

@HellofAUte @Vikingvictims @Acyn It's all great if you ignore the fact that Trump ran on "NO NEW WARS" and many people voted for him on that basis. And that he has no coherent reason for starting the war. And that he already claimed he "complete obliterated" (his words) their nuclear program last summer.

@Vikingvictims @Acyn I’ll take high gas prices for a bit, over having Iran launch a nuclear weapon into the USA I don’t get the hate for Trump because of high gas prices, when his focus has always been on eliminating socialism, globalism, and making America great again.

Reporter: What's your message to Americans as the Iran war continues to impact the economy, especially after yesterday's inflation report? Vance: We inherited a very bad inflation crisis.

@ECoastGamingHFX @sarbrajskahlon It's not AI. It's a motion composite feature in some traffic analysis CCTV systems. Also, this intersection has a CCTV camera situated at the exact spot this camera's perspective is from.

@sarbrajskahlon Bullshit. If you're going to try to post AI fucking horseshit, at least make sure it's somewhat real. the fucking bike stays on the road and still seen going up to the light. my fuck.

CCTV footage has emerged from the serious collision on Scott Road in Surrey involving a motorcycle that was left hanging from a traffic light pole. Despite the severity of the crash, the motorcyclist survived and sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

@jmellingson45 @AnnCoulter Didn’t Trump destroy their nuclear program last summer? He claimed at the time that he annihilated their ability to get a nuke for a “long long time”

@AnnCoulter STFU about your pointless war. I guess you would rather Iran had nuclear weapons, and continue to control the flow of oil out of the Strait of Hormuz.

It was high fuel costs that was the final death knell for Spirit -- caused by a pointless war that has left everyone worse off.

@scraigscott67 @ggreenwald Bubble? I’m producing my own milk. You are sucking on the teet of Chinese CAFO owners while pretending animal welfare doesn’t matter

@brandon_bt6 @ggreenwald "Everyone could have one" Their own dairy cow? Seriously? Yikes. Get out of your bubble.

One of the best recent developments is that disgust at the moral atrocities of factory farms has become trans-ideological. Dogs are the gateway for embracing empathy for animals. It's one thing to eat animals. It's another to industrially torture them by the billions.

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Yes, we've seen the results of many of these 'objective investigations', including them setting up photo ops, focusing on one bad actor or disgruntled employee, etc. Once again, have YOU been in one? I guarantee NO ONE in management or ownership abuses their animals or knowingly allows them to be abused. Use some common sense. Animal protein production - meat, eggs, milk - is a business. Abuse hurts the bottom line, individual bad actors or disgruntled employees notwithstanding. I run an enviro engineering firm that has been developing biological waste treatment for CAFOs. For three decades, I've been on hundreds of them for all species. You're flat wrong. Most are as clean and humane as possible. Try to remember it IS a factory - a protein factory. With 340M people to feed in the US alone, there's no other way to do it.

@scraigscott67 @ggreenwald I am part of an animal rights group that routinely sends fake inspectors into CAFO facilities. I know exactly what goes on in them.

@brandon_bt6 @ggreenwald Bullshit. How many have you been to vs reading inflammatory advocacy group rhetoric? They are NOT nightmares as a rule. See above about abused animals not producing or performing. And you haven't tried that math, have you?

@scraigscott67 @ggreenwald CAFO = animal abuse. The first word - "CONCENTRATED" - should be your first clue. These facilities are nightmares. Everyone knows it. Keep your head in the sand though.

@brandon_bt6 @ggreenwald What 'animal abuse'? And really, you know what 'take care of them properly' even means? Have you spent any time around a big farm or livestock facility or just spouting talking points you don't understand from mommy's couch?

@scraigscott67 @ggreenwald So you promote animal abuse because to take care of them properly requires too much land? LOL ... SICK!!!

@brandon_bt6 @ggreenwald Not that simple. First, farm animal abuse is rare. Abused livestock do not 'produce' like happy ones. Second, do you have a clue how big the US beef herd is or how many acres/cow it takes to graze them? Oops! LOL. Do some real research and a little mathing before trolling.

@plyka11 @ggreenwald There's shit in the meat

@brandon_bt6 @ggreenwald Very easy and yummy

@plyka11 @ggreenwald Easy for simple cowards to enjoy steak when they don't have to look the cow in the eye and can eat in blissful ignorance.

@brandon_bt6 @ggreenwald Im going to have a massive steak in your honor tonight

@plyka11 @ggreenwald I agree, seems horrible to depend so heavily on animal protein

@brandon_bt6 @ggreenwald Not everyone wants to live a horrible life