I've thought of Linear as a careful, measured, thoughtful company in the past so this seems out of the blue, like there's some kind of existential crisis occurring over there.
It's the only way to actually encourage high-agency, high-ownership behavior. Working from a backlog is actively counterproductive!
Code Intelligence. Linear can understand, answer questions about, and debug your codebase.
Code Diffs. Review code within a fast, modern interface built for both humans and agents to iterate together.
Linear Coding Agent. Linear writes code and automatically fixes bugs. Powered by frontier models, enhanced with native Linear context and tools
So another wrapper around Claude/OpenAI but with issue tracking integrated. Agents are not mind readers. They become useful through context. Customer feedback, internal ideas, strategic direction, decisions, and code all need to be captured in a system that humans and agents can work from together.
Customer feedback can come from anywhere, phone calls, website forms, sales people, customer meetings, online discussions, Twitter, etc. How do you capture all of that in Linear? Doesn't make sense.Internal ideas and strategic direction are usually discussed on Slack/Teams/meetings. Not on Linear.
Decisions can indeed be tracked on Linear, as an issue.
I think a true AI agent would simply sidestep tools like Linear. Tools like Linear won't be needed.
I think a true AI agent will simply be another employee. It gets added to Slack channels. It joins Zoom meetings. It gets access to company files. It gets access to feedback forms. It scours the internet for feedback on the company.
If you keep going down this track, you will enshittify your product and make those of us who just want a goddamn issue tracker, to start looking elsewhere for what feels like the millionth time.