Taste & Craft: A Conversation with Tuomas Artman, CTO Linear & Gergely Orosz, @pragmaticengineer

AI Engineer · Beginner ·🧠 Large Language Models ·2w ago
Tuomas Artman is Cofounder and CTO of Linear. - https://x.com/artman - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tuomasartman/ Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 0:36 The danger of shipping features too quickly with AI 3:52 How Linear approaches feature requests and development 6:43 Thoughts on Anthropic's Claude Code 7:59 The challenge of measuring software quality 11:57 Quality Wednesdays at Linear 16:24 The zero bug policy explained 19:44 AI agents and the lack of human "taste" in design 22:21 Building a culture of product-focused engineering 26:23 The future role of software engineers as "product engineers" 27:56 Closing advice for aspiring product engineers
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Chapters (11)

Introduction
0:36 The danger of shipping features too quickly with AI
3:52 How Linear approaches feature requests and development
6:43 Thoughts on Anthropic's Claude Code
7:59 The challenge of measuring software quality
11:57 Quality Wednesdays at Linear
16:24 The zero bug policy explained
19:44 AI agents and the lack of human "taste" in design
22:21 Building a culture of product-focused engineering
26:23 The future role of software engineers as "product engineers"
27:56 Closing advice for aspiring product engineers
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