AI now authors nearly half of all issues in Linear
AI usage patterns in software teams
Linear's data from tens of thousands of teams reveals AI adoption has tripled across all functions and company sizes in six months, with executives leading the charge. AI now creates nearly half of all issues, up from virtually zero two years ago, while teams spend more time on coordination tasks like commenting and triaging.
Two years ago, fewer than one issue in a thousand was created by AI.
- cmiles8
Usage does not correlate with valued output or ROI. This article smells like a bad attempt to say hey guys our customers see ROI without any actual evidence that they do.
Also, somewhat amusingly, the “founder” consistently being at the top of the use curve might just have something to do with everyone else also using it, but that more implies people are using it because the chief at the top wants them to use it… not because it’s actually useful. A pattern that’s typical of bad AI deployments.
- gkamal
This looks like measuring what is easy to do, rather than what really matters.
PR open counts, issues created , ceos/founders spending more time on linear don't automatically lead to better outcomes (in my experience they are often negatively correlated:-) )
- AlexKalWork
This looks like a "We are so AI native and efficient!!" article. At least, they could delve deeper into how they define the metrics and how they collected the data.
- sebiandev
this seems inappropriate. I think its a bad paradigm that just because you use a platform's service, they get intimate details about your usage. And for them to be so bold about publishing the statistics they've stolen from their customers data? Gives me a reason to never recommend my org use this platform.
- jmtulloss
This is pretty interesting but I wish it would have been refined in two ways:
- The prose before the data appears to be AI generated. Not a big deal but it makes the reader work harder to figure out what's actually being said.
- Linear didn't control for their platforms AI changes over the past year. The platform has become much more AI integrated, so a lot of numbers will move. I'm not sure how you do it but this is only useful signal with a control.
- jdw64
These days, my work has become: generate code for 20 minutes, then spend an hour reading it.
- hobofan
I think it's worth noting that headlines like "AI adoption has spread to every function" is only limited to roles covered/tracked by Linear.
Recent studies by e.g. Google show a much broader range of adoption.
- cadamsdotcom
Nice data!
Tim (author) if you're there: it'd be amazing to see the split of which agents people are using, if you have that data.