Jamie Philbin

SA turned FINS AE at GitLab | Boston-based | Non-rev maximalist

[Jamie Philbin @backbaytech]

Moving Salesforce writes from Claude to @glean . Claude kept hitting auth issues with the MCP connector. Glean handles it natively. Claude can call Glean, of course, but the permission issues I encountered are an internal company issue rather than an indictment of Claude Cowork in this case.

Also just used Glean’s natural language agent builder to set the whole thing up. Described what I wanted it to do, it built the agent from that. One shotted it, zero debugging, zero errors. I’ve got a technical background from my previous role, but Glean really lowered the barrier to entry with their agent builder.

[Jamie Philbin @backbaytech]

Been building out some automation for the parts of AE life that just eat time.

Put together a Glean agent that reads my open opps, pulls in recent emails, Slack threads, and Gong calls for context on each deal, suggests next steps, and writes them back directly to Salesforce. Same context loop also fills in my current opp’s command plans. Used it to update my whole open pipeline this afternoon.

Claude alone ran into a wall on the Salesforce writes due to some permissions guardrails. Glean handles the connector auth cleanly and has the permissions needed to update Salesforce.

Took less than an hour. Works.

[Jamie Philbin @backbaytech]

@glean Thank you🙏 Filling in command plans via Glean is next for me to tackle. It has all the context needed and even knows our internal policies on which opps actually require them 😎. Whatever I’m missing in terms of info gathered for them becomes a coaching opportunity too.

[Jamie Philbin @backbaytech]

And another scheduled task that runs at the end of each day, labels and sorts everything in my inbox, and gets me to inbox zero without touching it.

[Jamie Philbin @backbaytech]

Also have a Claude Cowork scheduled task that hits my Gmail inbox every morning and writes my to-do list directly into Apple Reminders. Work laptop, personal iPad, my iPhone, it’s all there even if I step away from my desk.

[Jamie Philbin @backbaytech]

@midwit_capital @AnthropicAI Buckle up 🦊🔥

[MidCurveCapital @midwit_capital]

👀“Hear from leaders at @AnthropicAI.” $GTLB 👀

[Peter Dedene @dedene]

POV: you're still using GitHub Copilot after June 1st, 2026

[Jamie Philbin @backbaytech]

Q1 was a statement quarter for $GTLB . 23% growth, margins expanding, agentic AI narrative fully intact. Pipeline is the hottest it's ever been. LFG 🚀

[🦊 GitLab @gitlab]

Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in GitLab Duo Agent Platform. Built for complex multi-step agent work with less mid-run disruption.

More precise execution, stronger reasoning and planning, better performance on professional work beyond coding.

Read more: https://t.co/HTSsZx6OyJ

[Jamie Philbin @backbaytech]

@AntiWuCoalition We have existing laws; why don’t we enforce them 🤣

[Josh Kraft @JoshKraftBoston]

Budgets are value statements, so it’s telling that in her capital budget, Mayor Wu has made $ for White Stadium a priority over $ for Madison Park High School & other new school construction. Funding for White Stadium is the largest item in FY26 BPS capital budget (1/2) #bospoli