> At the same time, companies are desperate for high-leverage hires. ClickUp, let go 22% of their workers, and introduced new $1M salary bands to attract agentic-native humans.
I'm sorry, but what does "agentic-native" even mean? Is the author assuming that for some people the ability to fluently manipulate AI agents is inborn behavior instead of learned. It sounds like a HR person writing a job listing that demands five years of experience with a framework that came out last week.
Furthermore, wouldn't it have been cheaper to retain and retrain existing employees? Laying off people to try to hire people who already learned AI elsewhere throws away existing institutional knowledge, seems like bad PR to me, and is immediately more expensive if you're introducing seven-figure salary bands to attract "fresh" talent instead of keeping the people you already have on the payroll.
Also, why should I even consider working for a company that laid people off to chase a trend. What's to stop them from throwing me under a bus when the next trend comes along?
Oh yeah agree with you on the first comment, it's hard to compete for sure. New frameworks are out by the day. But at this point the "skills" you develop around your work will work with any framework/assistant/platform. That's the goal of the post: to give you a direction on how to build your own AI leverage.
Re "Clickup": I'm not at all trying to say that you should be excited to work there. My point of the post is to say how you can build defensibility against companies like Clickup laying you off and/or how to make yourself a bit more valuable for the market today. It's a game we all play.
someone on twitter just summarized this pretty nicely: The company's race is to replace you before they collapse under their own weight and market pressures.
Your race is to replace them before they finish or the market finishes them.
> At the same time, companies are desperate for high-leverage hires. ClickUp, let go 22% of their workers, and introduced new $1M salary bands to attract agentic-native humans.
I'm sorry, but what does "agentic-native" even mean? Is the author assuming that for some people the ability to fluently manipulate AI agents is inborn behavior instead of learned. It sounds like a HR person writing a job listing that demands five years of experience with a framework that came out last week.
Furthermore, wouldn't it have been cheaper to retain and retrain existing employees? Laying off people to try to hire people who already learned AI elsewhere throws away existing institutional knowledge, seems like bad PR to me, and is immediately more expensive if you're introducing seven-figure salary bands to attract "fresh" talent instead of keeping the people you already have on the payroll.
Also, why should I even consider working for a company that laid people off to chase a trend. What's to stop them from throwing me under a bus when the next trend comes along?
Oh yeah agree with you on the first comment, it's hard to compete for sure. New frameworks are out by the day. But at this point the "skills" you develop around your work will work with any framework/assistant/platform. That's the goal of the post: to give you a direction on how to build your own AI leverage.
Re "Clickup": I'm not at all trying to say that you should be excited to work there. My point of the post is to say how you can build defensibility against companies like Clickup laying you off and/or how to make yourself a bit more valuable for the market today. It's a game we all play.
someone on twitter just summarized this pretty nicely: The company's race is to replace you before they collapse under their own weight and market pressures.
Your race is to replace them before they finish or the market finishes them.