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
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.
@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!
@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?
@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.