Linear CEO: After a Summer Off From AI, Nothing Really Changed
lennysan · x · 2026-10-08
Linear CEO Karri Saarinen says he took a break from AI this summer and expected to feel left behind on return—instead he found nothing fundamentally changed: new models, techniques, and agents keep coming, but building great products and growing revenue is still hard.
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