Building Production AI Agents: Linear Team Shares Core Lessons
petergyang · x · 2026-08-09
Peter Yang hosts Linear's Nan Yu and Jacob Shumaway to discuss practical lessons for building production-grade AI agents end-to-end.
Key takeaways include:
- Tools over instructions: Instead of writing massive prompts, give agents tools to autonomously load and find the context they need.
- Focus: Nail one or two core use cases first before expanding based on actual user behavior.
- Optimize later: Prove the core workflow using the most powerful model available, and only then optimize for cost.
Related event: Linear Shares Best Practices for Building Production-Grade AI Agents(2 posts)→
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