Recently the CEO of ClickUp announced a layoff of twenty-two percent, and that was also bundled with a lot of ideas for the future, about restructuring, and about what it means for now.
Here are my takeaways.
1 – AI is shifting everything
Nobody knows what the future will look like. Don’t trust who says otherwise, because we’re still in a moment in time where little do we know how AI will shape the world and how we will adapt to it.
We’re currently doing our best, as usual, but the world five years from now will probably be quite different from what we have today.
2 – Tokens are a limiting factor
Tokens are a limiting factor, and inefficient tokens are a hurdle and a cost.
This is not fully shared by the CEO. He mostly talked about letting people use unlimited tokens, and I agree with the direction. Token usage can absolutely be a limiting factor.
Right now you want to leverage as much power as possible that AI can give you, because you can expect some of the services will bump the prices up, and we’re already seeing this.
3 – Critical thinking matters even more now
This is my take, but you want to build even more critical thinking as you hand off more work to AI.
If you didn’t have enough critical thinking before, now is the time.
If you had it before, be aware that you’re trusting AI more than you would trust a human. You need to address that.
4 – Bottlenecks will define the future
Everything that slows AI adoption or AI distribution is currently a bottleneck.
It’s not about “AI can code.”
The question is: assume that everything is done by AI, what can’t AI do currently?
Those are the bottlenecks you need to figure out.
Again, this is mostly a vision for the future, so it might be wrong.
5 – Deprecating old systems
If you want to shift the mindset entirely, adapting might take longer. You want to reinvent because adapting them might require so many different changes and what you want is speed.
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