June 25, 2026
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
Key takeaways
- AI-coding won’t be optional for long. Linear standardized on AI agents in a week and never looked back – 30% more PRs, 33% more issues closed.
- The new bottleneck is context, not code: Linear cut token usage 40% through context engineering and started writing more RFCs, not fewer.
- Keep humans in the loop until the infrastructure to remove them safely exists.
Many developers are now testing or actively using AI-coding agents. The outcome is clear: once you make the transition, the old software development lifecycle seems like an ancient way of working.
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June 25, 2026
