Linear CEO Karri Saarinen: time to retire the word "context" in AI
round · x · 2026-11-05
Linear CEO Karri Saarinen published an article arguing the AI industry should retire the word "context." In his view, the term now "means everything and nothing": documents, call transcripts, Slack threads, log events, traces, and evals are all labeled context, diluting the word until it carries no precise meaning.
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