{"date":"2026-05-22","generatedAt":"2026-05-22T17:33:18.762Z","title":"scrollback — friday may 22","subtitle":"10 new bookmarks in the last 24 hours","entries":[{"id":"2057557473993597122","url":"https://x.com/NickMinock/status/2057557473993597122","text":"🚨New: Violent crime has increased by 92% under Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano’s watch, according to the MCCA. \nhttps://t.co/JbzDzZKUZe","author":{"username":"NickMinock","name":"Nick Minock","avatar":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1994142172304621568/_scxrpKO_normal.jpg"},"createdAt":"2026-05-21T20:21:44.000Z","firstSeenAt":"2026-05-22T09:31:36.244Z","links":[{"url":"https://wjla.com/news/local/fairfax-county-attorney-steve-descano-virginia-commonwealth-major-cities-chiefs-association-violent-crime-increase-jurisdiction-capitol-hill","og":{"title":"Taking a closer look at Fairfax County crime data under Steve Descano’s watch","description":"Public safety advocates are calling out Fairfax County officials for the increase in violent crime in the county.This comes after a high-profile congressional h","image":"https://wjla.com/resources/media/7068f197-ffff-4db5-a00e-4d618edf3594-jumbo16x9_DESCANOFOLOPKG.transfer_frame_6880.jpeg?1675853101127"}}]},{"id":"2057411932710166657","url":"https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/2057411932710166657","text":"You asked for it, so here it is: a deep-dive on my new /handoff skill.\n\nIt's an alternative to /compact that gives you WAY more flexibility with your context window.\n\n- Think of an idea, handoff to another agent to implement\n- Grill, handoff to prototype, handoff BACK\n\nEnjoy: https://t.co/V5oVe4QjiK","author":{"username":"mattpocockuk","name":"Matt Pocock","avatar":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1666460461884211204/SmBm505D_normal.jpg"},"folder":"AI","createdAt":"2026-05-21T10:43:24.000Z","firstSeenAt":"2026-05-22T09:31:36.244Z","links":[],"media":[{"type":"video","url":"https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2057408554462584832/vid/avc1/1920x1080/03qz7AKx5jG27E5H.mp4?tag=27","thumbnail":"https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2057408554462584832/img/rbJDtsS4jhbVZLFM.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080,"durationMs":743700}]},{"id":"2057389140623208493","url":"https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/2057389140623208493","text":"Adding a tweak to the /tdd skill:\n\n\"Do not add tests which simply restate the implementation. These provide zero confidence.\"\n\nGetting sick of shit tests just to provide evidence of RGR.","author":{"username":"mattpocockuk","name":"Matt Pocock","avatar":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1666460461884211204/SmBm505D_normal.jpg"},"folder":"AI","createdAt":"2026-05-21T09:12:50.000Z","firstSeenAt":"2026-05-22T09:31:36.244Z","links":[]},{"id":"2057121845699354629","url":"https://x.com/brotzky/status/2057121845699354629","text":"Introducing https://t.co/ycxJEf1z7w!\n\nA new space where I explore how the best apps in the world are built.\n\nFirst piece:\nHow's Linear is so fast? a technical breakdown.\n\nhttps://t.co/9Vu1syrn1i https://t.co/3rf8Y4ESpw","author":{"username":"brotzky","name":"Brotzky","avatar":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2056898817916854272/dq883mHC_normal.jpg"},"folder":"Software","createdAt":"2026-05-20T15:30:42.000Z","firstSeenAt":"2026-05-22T09:31:36.244Z","links":[{"url":"http://performance.dev","og":{"title":"Performance","description":"Essays on building fast, beautiful web apps and the craft behind them.","image":"https://performance.dev/og-default.e905420a.png"}},{"url":"https://performance.dev/how-is-linear-so-fast-a-technical-breakdown","og":{"title":"How's Linear so fast? 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Local models can handle complex interactions and software navigation autonomously. https://t.co/xuXqx3flOD","author":{"username":"googlegemma","name":"Google Gemma","avatar":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2038662245631320064/uWfEb6yw_normal.png"},"folder":"AI","createdAt":"2026-05-21T21:11:57.000Z","firstSeenAt":"2026-05-22T05:31:34.515Z","links":[],"media":[{"type":"video","url":"https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2057570043102449664/vid/avc1/1744x1080/x9qzzn7kJM62xG3W.mp4?tag=27","thumbnail":"https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2057570043102449664/img/gO3ksdbM0EeJJ-h8.jpg","width":1744,"height":1080,"durationMs":17666}]},{"id":"2057568985437094391","url":"https://x.com/VictorTaelin/status/2057568985437094391","text":"I discovered a new joy in life. Don't ask Codex to do stuff. Ask Codex to ask Codex to do stuff. Rejoice as you watch it handling and correcting all the dumb shit that it does and that you'd be dealing with otherwise","author":{"username":"VictorTaelin","name":"Taelin","avatar":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1757844208591704065/HOiAtIbv_normal.jpg"},"createdAt":"2026-05-21T21:07:28.000Z","firstSeenAt":"2026-05-22T05:31:34.515Z","links":[]},{"id":"2057522382315929802","url":"https://x.com/DJ_CURFEW/status/2057522382315929802","text":"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.\n\nFirst, 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.\n\nSecond, 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.\n\nMost 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.\n\nI 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.\n\nTHE 100X ORGANIZATION\nThe 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.\n\nIncremental 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nThese roles will evolve. But waiting for that to happen naturally means falling behind now.\n\nThe 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.\n\nTHE BUILDERS, AGENT MANAGERS, AND FRONT-LINERS\n\n— THE BUILDERS: 10X ENGINEERS\nI 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.\n\nHere'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.\n\nAI makes the best engineers wildly more productive, and everyone else using AI slows these engineers down.\nThink 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.\nSo who do you want orchestrating and reviewing code?\n\nAnd how do you want your best engineers to spend their time?\n\nIf 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.\n\nThe new world is about enabling your 10x engineers to become 100x.\n\nThe 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.\n\nI call this the great reckoning of AI coding, and every company will face this soon if not already.\n\nMore code is just another bottleneck to the best engineers, and ultimately to your company's impact as well.\n\n— THE BUILDERS: 10X PRODUCT MANAGERS\nProduct management and design roles are merging.\n\nDesigners that have customer focus, become more like product managers.\n\nAnd product managers that have intuition for UX become more like designers.\n\nThe bottleneck of user research is gone. It takes us just one mention of an agent to kickoff research and analyze results.\n\nThe 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.\n\nAlso 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.\n\nTo 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.\n\nEverything outside of managing systems, orchestrating AI, and reviewing output becomes a bottleneck.\nThat'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.\n\n— THE SYSTEM MANAGERS\nIronically, 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nYou must create enough disruption so that old systems are deprecated entirely. If there's any definition for 'AI native' that's what it is.\n\n— THE FRONT-LINERS\nIn a world that will become saturated with AI communication, the human touch will matter more than anything to customers.\n\nThis is a bottleneck that you shouldn't replace - even when agents are high enough quality to do video meetings.\n\nOne-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.\n\nREWARDING 100X IMPACT\nIn a world where companies are able to do so much more with less, where does that excess money go?\nIn our case, much of the savings in this new operating model will flow directly back to those that enabled it.\n\nWe 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.\n\nYou 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.\n\nCompensation 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.\n\nTHE FUTURE\nNearly every company will make changes like these. The ones that do it proactively will define what comes next.\n\nThe 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.\n\nClickUp 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.","author":{"username":"DJ_CURFEW","name":"Zeb Evans","avatar":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1532757345339486208/-RiJxKP__normal.jpg"},"createdAt":"2026-05-21T18:02:17.000Z","firstSeenAt":"2026-05-22T01:31:31.427Z","links":[]},{"id":"2057514494960513272","url":"https://x.com/danshipper/status/2057514494960513272","text":"We’ve automated every single thing we can @every with AI agents.\n\nAnd yet there’s way more human work to do than ever. We’ve gone from 4 -> 30 human employees since GPT-3.\n\nI wrote a report on the structural reasons: how AI makes expert competence cheap, why that drives up demand for experts, and why the dynamic only intensifies as we approach AGI.\n\nAfter Automation: https://t.co/Lb7SUCduAg","author":{"username":"danshipper","name":"Dan Shipper 📧","avatar":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1946219091305340928/_Ef-eDlc_normal.jpg"},"folder":"AI","createdAt":"2026-05-21T17:30:57.000Z","firstSeenAt":"2026-05-22T01:31:31.427Z","links":[],"media":[{"type":"photo","url":"https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HI3CV4KWoAAzrJF.jpg","width":2102,"height":1548}]},{"id":"2057503935402033396","url":"https://x.com/xuezhao/status/2057503935402033396","text":"love my Hermes agent +codex+ gbrain + last30days/pp press setup. \n\ni have a new cron job and the primary goal is to cut the self-promotional bs from podcasts and actually help me learn.\n\nmost podcasts are made for the speakers' self-promotional needs, not for the listeners. but there are these very well-researched 4-hour-long podcasts like acquired, dwarkesh that take time to listen to! so i made a daily cron job looking for insights and cross-episode learnings to help me prioritize. also! some of the more interesting guests are less known from podcasts few listen to, my agents create profiles for them and tell me who i should pay attention to. \n\n@NousResearch @garrytan @mvanhorn @OpenAIDevs","author":{"username":"xuezhao","name":"Lan Xuezhao","avatar":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1477722298538995722/TsAVNL1M_normal.jpg"},"folder":"AI","createdAt":"2026-05-21T16:48:59.000Z","firstSeenAt":"2026-05-22T01:31:31.427Z","links":[],"media":[{"type":"photo","url":"https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HI2vTYfaoAEg70E.jpg","width":1024,"height":1458}]},{"id":"2057094527236665598","url":"https://x.com/WillManidis/status/2057094527236665598","text":"https://t.co/aHOHtb1rcW","author":{"username":"WillManidis","name":"Will Manidis","avatar":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2001174780461060096/s9GkgDaG_normal.jpg"},"folder":"AI","createdAt":"2026-05-20T13:42:08.000Z","firstSeenAt":"2026-05-22T01:31:31.427Z","links":[],"article":{"url":"http://x.com/i/article/2056874933704118275","title":"On Grindslop","excerpt":"A podcaster recently posted about a founder that he had just interviewed. The founder was the most hardcore founder he's ever encountered after decades of chronicling the most hardcore founders. \nEach","coverImage":"https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HIt-LPlXcAA4UJD.jpg"}}]}