Issue Tracking Is Dead

aurareturn

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.

ezekg

This industry is becoming so boring.

demuis

Yikes. I guess writing your own eulogy isn't just a Stanford MBA exercise anymore.

obiefernandez

At ZAR once we had pervasive ingestion into an organization-wide knowledge graph in place and working well, the next step was to ditch Linear and replace it with a homegrown experiment tracking system that focuses all product engineers on empirical data and scientific method applied to how we prioritize work. It's the only way to actually encourage high-agency, high-ownership behavior. Working from a backlog is actively counterproductive!

steve_adams_86

This feels awkwardly premature and dubious. I think "we're adding features to support better context modelling and execution with LLMs" would have sufficed. 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.

christoff12

Show HN: justanissuetracker.com

sevenseacat

Look, Linear, I like you. I currently use you. You're the best of a shitty bunch. 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.