Posted by giuliomagnifico 14 hours ago
If it's an attempt at rebutting their claims etc, it'd be easier to interact if you provided some data, or concrete observations :)
It will save people time reading the 5-10 other identical vacuous comments
It sucks at generating code and AI true believers have made my job hell.
What am I going to say to that? Obviously it can’t suck that badly or there wouldn’t be a large majority of programmers using it, plenty of famous programmers and developers of languages praising it, millions of people paying for $200 plans. It doesn’t need to be Carmack-level to get a massive amount of use out of it when you can just say “implement this chart here, give me some ideas on speeding up this algorithm, write a function that converts this heightmap to a .fbx” and it writes it.
I think the measurement for this may be flawed. We do mostly use AI to decide how to build. But what we build is influenced by AI-driven research into a problem or task. That's largely done in coding and desktop AI tools, not Linear Asks/AI.
I'm working on accelerating my team's work by implementing AI-driven code pipelines with guardrails to eliminate as much unnecessary review time as possible. Also making a chatbot for turning repetitive tasks & PRs into buttons, and an "architectural guidance" chatbot that gives advice tailored to our business, software/system architecture, cloud, standards, etc. This puts AI and automated jobs in the center of both how (automated task) and what (architecture guidance).
But this has a not-so-great implication for Linear. With my tools, a human never has to touch a ticket, so we could use any ticketing system with an API or CLI. Linear is a great product because they made a great interface. What happens when I replace their interface with a chat bot?