Joe Pellegrino

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Never has there been a better time to learn how to be a software developer than by the very thing you fear will replace you. Claude teaches you the best ways to do everything right.

@estate_couple @DJ_CURFEW Oh I did, that’s what I have for all of our integrations, I just couldn’t dedicate time to perfecting it, and with the webhooks not being abundantly clear that they were doable I just threw in the towel. Got notion working for both issues in less than an hour.

@its_joeyp @DJ_CURFEW Why didn't you have Openclaw build the MCP? This was the first thing I did when it launched and it works smoothly (even though there is official MCP now)👌

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.

@johnsontoddr4 @DJ_CURFEW You are absolutely right to raise concerns, it helps being a developer and spending over 20 years in corporate IT so you definitely need to keep a close eye on security. I'm a big fan of managed agents I just feel like the API costs aren't sustainable.

@its_joeyp @DJ_CURFEW How are you managing security with all those agents? NemoClaw and OpenShell? Those are in alpha, so not good for production. Cloudflare and Anthropic Managed Agents sound like a possibility for me.

@johnsontoddr4 @DJ_CURFEW Hope this helps. If your a game of thrones fan you’ll appreciate the names open.substack.com/pub/digitaljoe…

@its_joeyp @DJ_CURFEW Curious to learn what businesses are using OpenClaw for and how you are securing it.

@kierzio @DJ_CURFEW Lmao

@its_joeyp @DJ_CURFEW What an embarrassment

@Evan_Oman @DJ_CURFEW Yup did that actually but it was brittle and I didn’t want to dedicate more time to it, plus everything went into the system as me and not my agent. Probably a neat feature that could drive revenue is cheap agent seats so that you can distinguish between comments from them etc.

@its_joeyp @DJ_CURFEW Just gotta build a CLI for agents around their API :D github.com/EvanOman/click…

@0xMarcB @DJ_CURFEW In my case the issue was between the seat and the keyboard. Good to know it doesn’t have issues I will try it.

@DJ_CURFEW @its_joeyp The MCP works well. Never have issues with it.

@DJ_CURFEW Wow, I didn’t see this in the integrations inside of Clickup when I checked last. For webhooks outgoing so that if we move things around to different statuses and such it can trigger the internal agents.

@its_joeyp We have MCP, was there an issue with allowlist in openclaw? developer.clickup.com/docs/connect-a… Webhooks - are you looking for incoming/outgoing or both?

Everyone in trouble now. Can’t wait to see what comes out of Anthropic.

Notion gets it. We currently have our OC team triggered via a webhook on comments left in pages so can’t wait to switch over to something more robust. Glad you guys are supporting companies that use their own agents instead of forcing it. Just goes to show that you believe in your core product.

BIG one for devs today. Introducing the Notion Developer Platform: - Notion CLI, ntn (Notion in your terminal) - Workers (run code on Notion's infra) - Database sync (any data source into Notion) - Agent tools (build any workflow) - Webhook triggers (trigger Notion from any app) - External Agents API (bring any agent into Notion) - Notion Agents SDK (use Notion Agents anywhere) - …and a bunch more API improvements And soon, you won't need to be a developer to build on Notion. Your agent will be one for you.

@hnshah *fear

@hnshah I tell my employees all the time watch what I do in Slack, how I talk to the agent, how I steer it. Takes away the feer of using AI, “embarrassment” of relying on it. All gone.

Shopify has figured out what makes AI work inside of companies. This is exactly what I've been doing at my companies since OpenClaw came out. Get a bot in Slack for team usage in public channels and it'll feel like the future.

@mcuban I agree but if humans can’t do that anyway what’s the difference? How many times do you ask different levels of c suite the same question and depending on their agenda it’s a different answer.

I’m coming to the conclusion that the biggest challenge for Enterprise AI, and AI in general , as of now, is that it’s still impossible to make sure that everyone gets the same answer to the same question, every time. Which is a great response to the doomers. AI doesn’t know the consequences of its output. Judgement and the ability to challenge AI output is becoming increasingly necessary, and valuable. Which makes domain knowledge more valuable by the second. Am I wrong ?

@levelsio If Anthropic was smart they’d have groups for Claude, once you do that there’s no incentive to use OpenClaw as a company or personal use except owning your data outright.

Update after 2 months, I think Anthropic succesfully killed OpenClaw Back then I said: "The real power user for OpenClaw has become my gf who I put it in a group chat with me, her and OpenClaw, she's mostly stopped using ChatGPT etc and now only uses AI over Telegram with OpenClaw, it's much more user friendly for her in Telegram iOS than ChatGPT's own app" Since I switched it to OpenAI API my gf has since slowly stopped using it and switched back to the Claude app and now uses Projects she says So from my n=1, Anthropic successfully killed OpenClaw

Love this feature apps.apple.com/us/app/my-life…

Any company that’s using OpenClaw correctly has already solved for this. It allows the freedom to be able to choose whatever works for your company without locking you into another product. All the way down to a pure SQLite database, and if you decide you want to expose it to a UI, an agent will do that for you.

Company Brain @t_blom Every company has critical know-how scattered across people's heads, old Slack threads, support tickets, and databases, and AI agents can't operate like that. We think every company in the world is going to need a new primitive: a living map of how the company works that turns its own artifacts into an executable skills file for AI.

AI has stopped being a feature and started being the foundation. We're excited about a new wave of startups rebuilding software, services, and silicon— and pushing AI into the physical world. ycombinator.com/rfs

If you’re looking for GPT 5.5 on OpenClaw just update to the beta if you can. openclaw update —channel beta Confirmed working

It’s time to start tracking calories by talking like a human apps.apple.com/us/app/my-life…

Why am I still waiting days for a response from a team after uploading a receipt to file a simple windshield replacement reimbursement claim for my auto insurance for a company that has had a Super Bowl commercial for the past 5 years. Somebody tell me who's missing the memo about AI Agents.