Cristina Cordova

Paper’s CAC must be $0 with folks like TK cooking up entire guides for them.

@zeeg I think rate limits and enforcement of rules + good behavior to prevent abuse have always made sense. But of course there is a big spectrum here

@cjc i fear this will be most platforms. salesforce at least was up front about hating everyone. theres some justification to locking things down at this point (agents are hammering shit, for example), but a lot of these companies have never understood the ecosystem.

Most SaaS companies are obsessed with “engagement” (getting you to stare at their UI). The really important ones do the opposite: they become infrastructure that other tools can call. Flint moving from a destination app to an API layer for growth is exactly the right direction.

The only reason I’m even sharing this Stripe comms job is because we aren’t hiring for comms over at Linear... yet. 😉 But seriously, this is a very cool, "choose-your-own-adventure" style hiring approach for some of the best storytellers in the game.

@RheaPurohit1 @linear Welcome, Rhea! 🎉

Two weeks in and it's starting to feel real -- excited to be @linear as a Writer:)

@milichab @SpaceX @xai @JasonBud Congrats, Andrew!

I’m joining @SpaceX and @xai with @JasonBud. X is the company realizing science fiction - reusable rockets, humanoid robots, data centers in space, and more. Almost 10 years ago, I joined SpaceX as an intern on Dragon 2 crew displays. This was in the era of the first rocket landings on barges, long before the Dragon 2 restored human spaceflight to America or Starlink delivered internet from space. Every day since then, I’ve thought about the next steps to land on the Moon - and to build a city on Mars, data centers in space, the brains behind robots, and beyond. There is no better place to build teams and products from the ground up with planetary scale resources. If you’re looking to work on the hardest problems that lay a foundation for humanity’s future to the Moon, Mars, and beyond - DM me.

Congrats to @MaxBrodeurUrbas and @Gumloop on the $50M Series B! But the money is less interesting than the scale: 800 million tasks represents a staggering amount of friction removed from the world. Most of what we call "work" is just the tax we pay for not having better tools.

@ChaseMcDou @linear It's coming soon!

.@linear love the natural language slack app, but why is this feature not in linear itself? Would love to just dictate these things into the linear app on to go rather than having to do it in Slack

@CurrySalsicha Of course — any particular parts of the workflow you’d like to learn about?

@cjc I have 😃 It’s really good. I meant some newer material with AI flows end to end. It would actually be nice to understand better how you guys even do it internally and best practices there. Thanks a lot for replying.

Going from raw customer feedback to a PRD, to your coding agent, and then straight into code diffs ... all in one place.

@CurrySalsicha Check out our playlists on YouTube for more AI workflows and general education on Linear: @linear?si=hqFVSZRwQbq6FC2L" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@linear?si=hqF…

@cjc @cjc we need some more videos showcasing these types of workflow end to end. I’m missing something a bit deeper that covers some of these flows with linear :)

@anuraggoel 😂 as long as you win more than you lose, you’ll be just fine

@cjc Thanks for this depressing Friday note, Cristina.

Yesterday, a founder told me he was surprised his team was losing deals for "political reasons". A competitor sat on the prospect’s board. An exec killed a deal with no rationale. Enterprise sales can feel irrational when you’re used to product merit deciding everything. Enterprise sales isn't political. It IS politics. Unfortunately, while he thought it was a broken process — that's the game. Your job isn't to sell a product. It's to make saying yes the easiest political move an exec can make.

@karrisaarinen I was not expecting the AI generated Fraser episodes.

It’s 2028. Welcome to the token economy. We realized that all software and activities can be shaped to spend tokens, which is good, because more tokens we spend, the more productive and happier we are as a society. My Openclaw agent goes to wake up the alarm agent, which then after running for 5 minutes in a new sandbox and burning 500 tokens, plays a sound to wake me up. My news agent reads all my email, including spam, crawls the web, and gives me a 5-line summary of the world. Very efficient. I get to my desk. 100 agents have been chatting all night. 10k LOC ready to merge. I tell my merge agent to press the merge button. Check my company token leaderboard. 15,000 tokens burned and I haven’t even done anything yet. I tell my manager agent to boot up my other agents. First thing they do is vibe code a Slack clone so they can post progress updates to each other. I tell them to find something to do and go to lunch. Back from lunch: Company leaderboard says 25,000 tokens burned. More than Chad. Very nice. At 80,000 tokens a day you unlock Platinum tier, which gives access to faster models that can burn tokens even faster. Agents built another 10k LOC while I was out. I don't know what it does so I tell my review agents to tear it apart, rebuild it, and merge it again. Excellent token utilization. Then I ask my social media agent to post that software engineering is dead because agents do it now. More tokens. I get hungry, so I tell Openclaw to vibe code DoorDash. We call it ClawDash. Iterate on the logo for about 5mins with my designer agent. We make the red with some lobster claws. Very appropriate. It takes 5 hours, several new agents to ping the status, and one human recruiter signing up a Mexican restaurant, but eventually my food arrives. I heat it in the microwave with a dedicated heating agent program I built for this purpose. Before bed I check the my dishwasher dashboard. My agents run through the log history since dawn of time, and tells me that it says it ran 23 hours ago, and was opened shortly after so it’s probably clean. Final leaderboard check: 81,239 tokens burned. Platinum achieved. I now have access to new models faster, which burn tokens faster, and will receive Platinium plaque in the mail. Time to wind down with some generated Fraser episodes which I tell my entertainment product agent to script, review, and finally generate. Important thing is the token burn never stops.

@karrisaarinen @linear a multi-tease tweet

@davidhoang @daniel_levine You must not know Dan's dealflow ;)

@cjc @daniel_levine I think you have better deal flow than Dan.

Paper is fast becoming the perfect design complement to agentic coding. Claude Code + Paper is quite the stack

@stephenhaney you’re in good company 😆

Paper with back-to-back breakout months!