Linear CEO on agents: give a man a way to build his own tools, and building tools becomes his work
jiayuan_jy · x · 2026-11-12
Linear CEO Karri Saarinen shared a widely shared aphorism capturing the agent-era shift: give someone a tool and they'll get to work; give them a way to build their own tools, and building tools becomes their work. As models increasingly write their own tools and assemble workflows, using tools is giving way to producing them.
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