Linear Founder: Agent Automation Can't Replace Product Soul

Linear founder Karri Saarinen argues in a new essay that as agents make individually reasonable but conflicting changes, products degrade into feature piles; good software carries its makers' judgment and soul, which automation cannot replace.

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