I just tried @linear Diff. Genuinely speechless. The UI is so fucking good. Everything flows, it's beautiful, the AI makes sense, this is ridiculously perfect. I've been staring at it for 10 minutes, just appreciating how well it's designed

Linear Agent can now write code using Claude Code & Codex. Triage, plan, and ship without ever opening a local dev environment. We’re already using it to auto-fix 30% of our own bugs. Try it on Basic, Business & Enterprise plans with free credits this month.

Back in May 2025, I made this simple diagram where @linear becomes our source for all disparate context. Agents then access it to coordinate work. With that anchor in mind, we've been able to orchestrate our harnesses and agentic systems in incredibly effective ways. Docs is yet another unlock to cut out a hop for agents.

The evolution of startup events The 2012 Meetup: Crowd into a cramped, fluorescent-lit startup office for lukewarm free Costco pizza The 2018 Mega-Conference: Pay $1,500 to walk 25,000 steps a day across a massive convention center to find somewhere... anywhere to sit. Lunch consists of questionable catering wraps. The mid 2020s Cafe Takeover: Drink an oat milk latte in a cafe turned networking lounge where you awkwardly glance at others while you attempt to find the card with the code for the free AI credits on it.

Only missed out on these tiny startups: - Anthropic - Cursor - Perplexity - Sierra - Cognition - Mercor - Harvey - Supabase

Normally I wouldn’t share something from a competitor, but this one seemed interesting. Since day one, @linear has been built for the most ambitious teams in Silicon Valley and beyond. That was always intentional, and we're very happy to serve those teams. Teams at OpenAI, Coinbase, Ramp, and frontier companies across fintech, healthcare, aerospace, and more use Linear to build and ship. Even teams building supersonic jets, like Boom Supersonic. We’re now seeing companies switch to Linear every week, and the pace is accelerating. We’ll keep doubling down helping Silicon Valley and other high performing teams on the planet build better software, faster even if our competition decides not to.

Everything above Linear on this list is 5X to 1,290X our size in headcount. If you believe small teams build better software, we're hiring. linear.app/careers

The review is in: the l(a)unch was good, but the Diffs are better. Think diff.

Code review, but faster. Introducing Diffs. A new way to review PRs, directly inside Linear. • Realtime updates • Guided reviews with Al (beta) • Focused notifications • Iterate with coding agents • Threaded comments

1) It is still incredibly difficult to find a company going from $1 to $10B in a year. I’ve joined two companies worth under $1B that are now worth over $10B and neither of them did it in a year. 2) It’s even more difficult to get meaningful liquidity from those valuations so that your gain isn’t just on paper.

Christina Valente, director of product ops at Klaviyo, had used Jira for 20 years. Post their IPO, they needed a system for a new way of building, and switched to Linear. Now with Linear's Triage Intelligence, automations for bug routing enabled them to consistently hit their support SLAs. A customer issue that might’ve sat in a backlog for months now gets fixed and shipped in 3 business days. Agents only work if the underlying system is clean enough for them to understand what’s happening. More on their story here: linear.app/customers/klaviyo

my co is trialing @linear to replace jira and the first thing that hits me is that the team built a user experience not a database wearing a UI as a costume.

📂 Linear Agent use cases └─ product_management.mp4 └─ Initiating projects └─ Synthesizing feedback └─ Understanding code context

Big Almond has been doing this the whole time and we’ve been out here worried about data centers. Unbelievable.

I firmly believe developers don’t want selfie sticks and a “Get Ready With Me” dev edition. Everyone is fighting for attention now, even the giants. But developers are a unique audience: they are discerning with a high bullshit detector. When you replace technical depth with selfie sticks, you very well might get the reach, but you lose the earnestness that developers actually value.

Congrats to @RattrayAlex, @bkrausz, @mmcgrana, @_RussellDavis, @jenanwise and the whole @StainlessAPI team on the acquisition. They transformed the last mile of the developer experience and I can’t wait to see what they build next at @AnthropicAI!

I'll take #8, but still room to grow.

They say the suburbs are better for kids, but I don't see any cul-de-sacs that offer the target-rich environment of Bay to Breakers. 🏃‍♂️💦

After three incredible years, I’m moving on from Linear… to year four. See you Monday.