Cristina Cordova

The new agentic Slackbot has arrived and is directly integrated with Linear. Move seamlessly from signing contracts in DocuSign to reporting bugs in Linear and shipping PRs with Cursor, all without leaving the chat.

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@agarwal @yoda This was my first car! 🥹

I’m selling my 1997 Miata. 130k miles. Well maintained. Drives perfectly. One of the funnest cars ever made. DMs open.

A common mistake leaders make is hiring mercenaries and being surprised when they act like mercenaries. If you recruit by overpaying and selling on hype, you're just outbidding the competition for people who prioritize being outbid. When the tide turns (and it very often does), mercenaries don’t suddenly become missionaries. They just find a new ship that’s still rising. The only real defense is a culture that attracts people who actually want to build the thing, not just own the options.

@razzaghi2012 😂 so you must have picked Harvard because it’s more forgiving in a Spanish accent

@cjc Love this and what you’re saying is so true, it does create a sense of some security. 💙 Funniest part for me was when the Yale acceptance letter came my mom was like, ‘what’s ya-le?’ in a Spanish accent that I still laugh about 😂.

I’ll never pass up an opportunity to watch college acceptance videos. I applied to 17 colleges with no idea what would happen or what we could afford. The first acceptance I received was to Brandeis with a full ride. My mom and I cried on the bathroom floor. Everything after that, even ending up at Stanford for a few thousand dollars a year, was just the cherry on top. For first-gen students, these admissions letters aren't just about prestige. They are the first time you feel a sense of security and a radical shift in what you think you can achieve.

@FrankBoerman It was certainly one of the most stressful periods of my life.

@cjc cant imagine the stress though. I am so happy that in NL you dont need to do this

@Raul_RomeroM Adorable

It was huge for me too. Getting a letter in the mail and a full ride to a school in America completely changed my life. Before I got into Kenyon and Middlebury, I called my mom and told her I had gotten into a 'Waitlist' for another school. She couldn't contain her excitement and thought 'Waitlist' was a school lol

@BehEvans @linear All our startup program discounts should apply to new customers of our Basic and Business plans

@cjc @linear all good just applied to it, not sure if its the right plan though

we're a bootsrapped startup with no VC funding and we can't get into @linear startup program because of that why.....

@BehEvans @linear Great, let me know if you have any trouble

@cjc @linear this is awesome, alright we will join soon 🔥

I completely agree. The agent is a mirror, so the more thoughtful your input and context, the better the result. We don’t believe in outsourcing the thinking, but instead automating the hours of manual organization required across customer requests and internal feedback to actually act on those thoughts.

Folks, please don't forget to think. Also, if it's this easy to scope then you can probably skip to simply giving feedback on a demo the builder can crank out in a day. Lots of scoping on simple features was because development was 10x as expensive as it is not.

Of course AI doesn't magically read minds, but it penalizes hidden requirements by ignoring them. This creates a cultural shift where the team is forced to move internal politics + what's in your mind into a structured format so the agents can function. Coinbase speaks to this well when they made an explicit effort to delete IDEs to force people to change their behavior: linear.app/customers/coin…

Curious where this lands on projects where half the requirements live in someone's head and the other half are political. Scoping speed was never really the bottleneck for most teams, stakeholder alignment was. Does the AI surface those hidden dependencies or just generate a polished plan that misses them?

The era of spending a few days to scope a project is officially over. Watch @TheLenaVu (yes, a human, not AI) use the Linear Agent to crawl your backlog, prioritize, draft your PRD, and assign the work. And then, turn it all into a skill you can use for next time.

Good bye sprint planning, stand-ups, and "can we prioritize this?". Long live getting shit done. We have a custom flow in slack that goes from intent to one-off mobile builds we can test for bug reports, features, and feedback: 1. Every post triggers a @linear ticket, gets auto-triaged and routed to our in-house built background agent which creates a "plan" 2. A PR is triggered that automatically creates a one-off mobile firebase build + QR code to make testing as easy as possible. Time from intent to build went from many many days to ~1 hour.

@mealbaraa Thanks, our docs experience is primarily built for project documentation (not general purpose docs), but we hear you and understand we can make them easier to navigate and update.

I mean, if you add a new button in the sidebar, for example, “Wiki,” for easy documentation. It’s very unfriendly to access the project page, then add a new document by pressing the plus icon in the small bar inside the project details section, which gives me the feeling that docs aren't that important in Linear. The most interesting doc feature I’ve ever seen in app called “Plane” they utilize the Wiki very effectively with a better experience. There is no issue in studying their feature and analysis it and absorb the pros and cons and building something for better wiki-docs with your own style and method.

Please improve the docs, it’s terrible and frustrating

Linear CEO @karrisaarinen says throwing out SaaS entirely can send companies on a "long journey" back to the exact same workflows: "This idea of like, 'let's throw everything out, no SaaS at all'... I think that's an option. But then you start inventing stuff back from first principles, and you maybe end up in the same spot again." "Everyone's running their agent, and now they have 10 agents running. So then they put them on a Kanban board, which Linear has, and then it's like, 'Oh, now I invented agent orchestration.' Like, no, you invented the Kanban board, which has been around for like 30 years." "So, kudos to connecting those two topics. But some things don't need to be reinvented. Some things can still work. But if you just throw everything out, you kind of start from the beginning, and then I think it's a long journey to figure everything out again."

Most companies are just adding AI to their old workflows. Coinbase is actually rebuilding them from the ground up. @chintanturakhia recently asked his entire team to delete their IDEs for two weeks to see how work happens when agents do the heavy lifting. Linear became the structured source of truth for agents to navigate. As Chintan puts it, "I'm not designing things for humans anymore. I'm designing things for agents." Read the full story Chintan leading this transition at Coinbase: linear.app/customers/coin…

@joshm @UCLAHealthJCCC Wishing you and the UCLA team huge success in the fight against cancer!

Some news: I’ve joined the Board of UCLA’s Cancer Center (@UCLAHealthJCCC). My godfather battled cancer for decades. My mom beat it and my dad is going through it too. It’s a vicious disease… but I truly believe we can beat it in our lifetime. UCLA has long been at the forefront. It’s a public hospital that serves the most diverse, populous county in all of America. UCLA’s Cancer Center discovered the first targeted therapy for breast cancer (impacting millions of women). And it has had 27 FDA approvals since 2017. The Jonsson Center is elite. What gets me so excited is how much more is newly possible thanks to AI. It’s mind-bending to hear Dr. Teitell speak about what we might be able to do… if we collectively care enough! Beating cancer will take human will. That’s why I’m so inspired to put my money and time where my mouth is, and try to contribute whatever I can to bring a cancer-free future forward. AI is going to rock our world, in all sorts of ways… we owe it to ourselves to wield it for the public good too. Please reach out if you’d like to learn how you can get involved. I’d love to help bring the best and brightest together — in sunny Los Angeles — to help the scientists, engineers, doctors, and more at UCLA do the work that might save your loved ones’ lives in the future. DMs open!