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22% Layoff at ClickUp

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As a customer of ClickUp, I have very little confidence in their engineering ability. Leader calls for “100x” development, and I think he’s being more honest than most - they may actually *need* to burn it all down to make it better, and now would be the time to initiate that.

ClickUp achieved "AGI" internally.

only 100x? why not go beyond 1000x?

I swear, the tech world is in the state of some global AI psychosis

First, I made this decision and I own it...

Always reminds me of:

Failure is growth. Failure is learning. But sometimes failure is just failure. I think... I'm sorry. I didn't think it would be this hard. But goodbyes are always hard, especially when I am the one saying goodbye. Today, effective immediately, I, Gavin Belson, founder and CEO of Hooli, am forced to officially say goodbye to the entire Nucleus division. All Nucleus personnel will be given proper notice and terminated. But make no mistake. Though they're the ones leaving, it is I who must remain and bear the heavy burden of their failure.

Ah yes, ClickUp, the issue tracker that was so sloppy there wasn't a single person at my company who was upset about our switching to Linear, and which used several gigabytes of RAM on the main page.

Excited to see 100x of this.

The primary change is that we’re restructuring around what I call 100x org. The goal is 100x output.

what is this? Delusion? Shrooms? Wishful thinking? All of that?

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.

The goal is 100x output BUT NOT 500% more pull requests, folks.

I think he was playing bullshit bingo, and put in 100x for the win.

Before reading this post I made a bet that I will find a word “tokens” inside. I won!

Zeb Evans posts that ClickUp is reducing headcount by 22%.

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