Justin Langley

I build stuff. Flutter for days. TTRPG enthusiast. Gaming life. D&D is my love language. He/Him 💙

[Justin Langley @JayMLang]

Dead Internet theorists were just early.

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. https://t.co/2zX5bHdhsa

[Justin Langley @JayMLang]

@hthieblot And Kongregate!

[Justin Langley @JayMLang]

@hthieblot Xanga

[Justin Langley @JayMLang]

Anyone else completely underwhelmed by this? It’s a good thing the game is fun, because this is the saddest game anniversary celebration event I’ve ever seen.

A few days of a daily grind for a couple skins? Meh.

[Diablo @Diablo]

Let the party begin. The Diablo IV Anniversary Event is Live Now.

[Justin Langley @JayMLang]

Some people go to the movies, flip a switch and turn their brain off to play TikTok videos in their head instead of paying attention.

Of all the valid criticisms of this movie; this ain’t it.

[Blew @PondTalk]

The reason people in droves are hating on Backrooms is because it commits the most sinister of all movie sins: it wastes your time.

There is no build up. There is no development. There is just vibes and sounds. This is what happens when you try and stretch a neat concept into a movie without any more development.

Really talented actors are wasted on flat, single-dimensional characters that, try as they might, remain uninteresting and uninviting.

The audience doesn't get enough information or time with any one person or thing to ever truly care about anything.

[Justin Langley @JayMLang]

@AllyFogg Big brain is putting your wife closest to the door so she’s less likely to wake you as she goes to pee for the 5th time.

[Justin Langley @JayMLang]

It’s insane the dichotomy between posts from the mayor of NY and the president.

One are wholesome and make you feel hope for our country.

The opposite are posted by the commander in chief.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals.

As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them.

Go Knicks.

[Justin Langley @JayMLang]

Steam / PC player counts are the absolutely most unreliable measurement and you should ignore every single person using this measurement for any game to make any sort of conclusion about it.

It’s less than worthless; it’s misleading.

[ARC Raiders Alerts @ArcRaiderAlerts]

50K concurrent players is still solid for an extraction adventure game 7 months after launch, but the game's falloff needs to be studied nonetheless.

Many people believe that TheBurntPeanut leaving this game was the start of the downfall.

[Justin Langley @JayMLang]

It will never cease to amaze me the mental gymnastics some people take.

[I Am Fallout @falloutplays]

All the braindead tourist takes about the end of Destiny 2 are gonna put me in an early grave. Yeah, it didn't end because of poor management, questionable franchise decisions, lack of significant updates etc. It ended because they made a trans pin & a rainbow shader, bro staple ur whole mouth shut fr

[Justin Langley @JayMLang]

Wonderful adaptation and walks the line carefully between staying true to his source material and crafting a very watchable movie.

Definitely had a couple rough areas, but solid 7/10 and probably a bit higher after I watch it again and undoubtedly catch things I missed.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘BACKROOMS’ now could earn $60M+ domestically in its opening weekend.

Would be one of the biggest openings for a horror film ever.

[Justin Langley @JayMLang]

The slopification continues! Can’t wait for Slack to drop down into the Team area of usefulness.

[Slack @SlackHQ]

In 2 years there will be more agents using Slack than people.

That's not a prediction. It's a roadmap.

Q1 FY27:

• Slack MCP: 1 million users in the first 6 weeks
• Slack AWUs: up 350% QoQ
• Slack in nearly half of Salesforce's $1M+ wins this quarter (+80% YoY)

Slackbot is now an MCP client. Create a NetSuite PO. Update a Jira project. Summarize a Salesforce case. No switching tools.

The future of work isn't in a browser tab.

Welcome to Agentic Slack. ⚡

[Justin Langley @JayMLang]

@PrimeVideo Can’t watch any of my prime shows because it’s just a black screen on the player.

Chrome v148.0.7778.179
MacOS 26.3.1

Already cleared caches and cookies and relogged in. I get sound but no video.

[Justin Langley @JayMLang]

Bro never even watched a Bond movie before 🤦‍♂️

[Fandom Pulse @fandompulse]

Video game expert and developer Yorch Torch Games calls the new James Bond 007 First Light "woke trash" and elaborates on his points:

"007 First Light's James Bond is being bossed around by a woman. I've watched the first 13 min. of 'gameplay'. Bond: 'How can I help without knowing what's going on?'

"Woman over comms: 'By doing exactly what I tell you.' This is a disaster."

Meanwhile, the mainstream gaming media is glazing it.

Did feminism destroy this game?

[Justin Langley @JayMLang]

Scratch must have been some weird sync issue. A game restart and I can socket gems in the unmodifiable gear. That was weird for sure.

[Justin Langley @JayMLang]

@Diablo Hey so uh why was I able to remove the gems from an unmodifiable piece of gear if I can’t put them back in?

Really goofy and feels like a trap for players like me who only just started transfiguring stuff and had no idea if I removed the gems I couldn’t put any back.

[Justin Langley @JayMLang]

@rseroter @ASalvadorini @GoogleAIStudio @ASalvadorini It’s always the same.

“This AI thing will revolutionize and allow anyone to build a full stack app!”

“What did you build with it then?”

“Well… nothing yet.”

[Justin Langley @JayMLang]

The world can tell that a bunch of software engineers have stopped writing code.

It’s very very obvious these days.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

I don't write code anymore

I haven't written code in I think 6 months?

I think everyone is like this no?

[Justin Langley @JayMLang]

> These engineers can review their agents code much faster than human written code.

Demonstrably an absolute lie. AI produced code is easily some of the sloppiest, inefficient and spaghetti-fied code I’ve ever seen.

In every instance with every model I’ve used. It’s atrocious.

[Zeb Evans @DJ_CURFEW]

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.

[Justin Langley @JayMLang]

@CFDevelop Gen AI cannot produce art but it absolutely allows people to steal art from artists.

A car by definition cannot commit theft but a person can use it to steal. Does that make sense?

[Justin Langley @JayMLang]

@CFDevelop Tangent arc but okay.

Art is a human applying something intangible like a thought (or something from the unconscious/conscious mind) into something tangible through work and effort.

Gen AI definitionally can do neither so it’s quite literally not art.