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Craft and quality beat speed and scale, with or without agents
Ryan welcomes Tom Moor, head of engineering at Linear, to discuss AI agents’ mixed results for productivity in the development lifecycle, the importance of context for maximizing agents’ effectiveness, and the role that junior developers need to take in a world increasingly driven by AI.
Episode notes:
Linear is a tool for planning and building products that streamline issues, projects, and product roadmaps.
Connect with Tom on Twitter.
This episode’s shoutout goes to user ozz, who won a Populist badge for their answer to Column width not working in DataTables bootstrap.
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