@artman: Today is a hard day. I shared this note with the @linear team today: We’ve made the difficult decision to increase our …
Summary
Linear has announced a workforce reduction driven by the adoption of agentic AI, clarifying that the cuts are due to role reimagining rather than performance issues.
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