I've always dreaded these big bang quarterly and annual planning exercises. The larger an organization gets, the more performative and less anchored to reality it becomes.
And the worst thing is that productive work tends to just stop during this period.
The problem with most existing AI solutions is they expect you to micromanage them. This creates tons of new mental burden and overhead and it's a big reason why AI adoption efforts fail.
We're taking a different approach at Linear, which we're sharing today. Our goal is to
I've really been enjoying this workflow lately. Whenever a PM or a designer finds a small change to be made, we just create the issue and assign it to a coding agent.
It would have been much more annoying for us to put it into the work queue, wait for an engineer to take time ht
Talent is still the bottleneck —
Even for a startup with a great reputation like Linear, competing for top talent with all of the mega cap tech companies is *really* hard.
One of the things that AI has been able to do for us is to take all of the ticky-tack stuff off of the
This quote from Teller (of P&T) lives in my head rent-free:
"Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."
Seems like a good time to bring up some previous thoughts I’ve had about remote work.
I love being able to work with colleagues from across the country and the world, without any of us needing to uproot our lives.
Our 3 co-founders Iive in California, New York, and Finland.
I’ve noticed the liberal arts aspect of my education playing an increasingly larger role in my career as time goes on and AI tools have supercharged this.
They are steerable enough at this point that you can be specific and expressive.
Now you have to know what you want!
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Something that we all need to recognize is that engineers end up making 50%+ of the product decisions by volume.
There's no practical way PMs and designers can specify every single edge case, all the subtleties of the loo
If you are an engineer, and you are pretty sure you're a better product person than most or all of the PMs you've worked with, we would like to hire you at Linear.
Apply on the website and mention this tweet and we will make sure we get to your application quickly
People often come to me for advice about product management, and the most consistent thing I say to them is: "You should probably be 10x more specific than you're being right now."
Who is your customer? "IT managers"
No! It's Bob Smith who leads IT at Figma
What's the benefit
Interview design is becoming an interesting game.
It's basically assumed you're going to be using AI to generate answers, so we're actually selecting for your judgement to select the best answers and arguments, and your ability to identify tradeoffs and practical