Maciek Pekala

closing issues @linear, prev @pleo

[Maciek Pekala @penzington]

State of the art for rapid software product iteration

[Adrien Griveau @Griveau]

How we improved the product experience using @linear Agent in Slack, Coding Agent, and Diffs.

A story in three acts 🧵

[Maciek Pekala @penzington]

@byronrode @linear We'll probably add this, but PR creation these days is mostly offloaded to agents anyway.

[Maciek Pekala @penzington]

@andrewingram @github @graphite @linear

[Maciek Pekala @penzington]

@ewhauser @karrisaarinen @linear You can press Z to review without distractions

[Maciek Pekala @penzington]

@dcasn Thanks Dany, really appreciate your feedback from the *very* beginning 🫡

[Maciek Pekala @penzington]

@yannglt @pdotcv would

[Maciek Pekala @penzington]

If you're a frontend dev and you're not actively converting to a fullstack product engineer this graph is the last thing you see before that "difficult decision" email hits

[Adrien Griveau @Griveau]

I've been working on @linear for almost 6 years now. Since last June we refocused the company on improving AI workflows, allowing people to create and review code in Linear.

We had a big redesign to incorporate those new surfaces into the product, making IC work more efficient and collaborative.

In the last 6 months my usage of Linear is up from ~1 hour a day to at least 5 hours. My productivity has been multiplied by 4. My average time to close an issue was around 1 month; now I'm below 1 week.

How can I explain this? Most of my designs were waiting for engineers’ bandwidth to be shipped. Since I can now run agents from Linear, I apply a new philosophy: see it, say it, sort it. Fix things you’ve wanted to happen as a designer for a long time—fix them from Linear with agents, then get feedback from the team on issues or reviews directly in @linear. Nothing is lost, and you can really test your new concepts and share them with your team.

I’ve never experienced anything like this as a designer. It makes you focus more on what’s important, and getting feedback on your work has never been that easy. Try it if you can.

This graph shows my average time for issues to be completed after they are created.

[Maciek Pekala @penzington]

@thekitze this could be us but you playin

[Maciek Pekala @penzington]

we dun diffed

[Jori Lallo @jorilallo]

Don't tell anyone (to enable, reconnect GitHub integration with new permissions).

Agents which output draft PRs also get code diffs inside Linear now

[Maciek Pekala @penzington]

@emil_priver @kpmdev @linear We'll be improving rapidly based on feedback like yours. Already decided to expose those status checks / review status more when looking at the diffs, will work on this soon.
Let me know if anything else feels off!

[Maciek Pekala @penzington]

@kpmdev @emil_priver @linear Would love to understand how we can adjust here. You should not be able to merge from Linear, if the lint checks block merge on GH side. Or are you not preventing merging when those lint checks fail?

[Maciek Pekala @penzington]

@emil_priver @kpmdev @linear Can you give a bit more context? We do list the check results on Linear side. Happy to move to DMs to if you want to share screenshots etc.

[Maciek Pekala @penzington]

@ArvindNedumaran @karrisaarinen @linear @thenanyu Can you describe the scenario where the Esc doesn't work?

[Maciek Pekala @penzington]

@branmcconnell The following is fixed, and I filed the bug report. Someone running Tahoe will have a look ;)

[Maciek Pekala @penzington]

@branmcconnell @linear Happy to have a look! I never got that DM, was it here on Twitter?

[Maciek Pekala @penzington]

@cyburns88 There is a setting in Preferences that you should help!

[Maciek Pekala @penzington]

@tommoor Tears in my eyes

[Maciek Pekala @penzington]

@schrockn @karrisaarinen @linear The graph could be better! Would be nice if GH showed pairs of human+agent as separate entries here

[Maciek Pekala @penzington]

@schrockn @karrisaarinen @linear These are all annotated as co-authored by the agent and human, so there is attribution to the accountable person

[Maciek Pekala @penzington]

@ijakubh @linear Not in the initial release, but plan to add it in the future