

Tuomas Artman
5.1K posts

@artman
Co-founder @linear, previously senior staff engineer @Uber



AI agents now do the work of entire SaaS apps via natural language prompts—no UIs, no seats, no subscriptions needed. It ate tools like CRMs (Salesforce-style), billing, analytics dashboards, scheduling, support ticketing—anything where humans clicked buttons or entered data. Just prompt Grok/Claude/etc. with your goal + data access, and it executes end-to-end. Software layer became overhead.

Linear Interface Refresh A visual update designed to reduce noise and bring structure back into focus as the Linear product continues to evolve. Rolling out today.

When it comes to AI agents / AI tooling + coding, I hear an awful lot of talk about: Efficiency Iteration speed / PR output rate / lines of codes produced I hear zero mentions about: Quality Customer obsession This will bite back, and it probably already is...




A New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to several licensed professions like medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, and more. The companies would be liable if the chatbots give “substantive responses” in these areas.

PRDs are dead.

Local-First Conf 2026 tickets are now on sale. July 12–14 · Berlin · 350 people · single track This year's theme: user empowerment in an age of fluid software. We're going beyond CRDTs to explore malleable software, peer-to-peer, self-sovereign identity, open-weight models, ATproto, and much more. If you're building for user agency, this is your conference. CFP is open. We want YOUR talk. 👇localfirstconf.com




Linear → Your AI coding tool Open any issue directly in Claude Code, Codex, Conductor, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, Replit, v0, or Zed – preloaded with full context and a custom prompt. Just press ⌘⇧;