Someone behind the software(karrisaarinen.com)
542 points by tosh 7 days ago | 195 comments
tl;dr: Linear's author argues that great products reflect the taste, intuition, and unified perspective of their makers—qualities developed through experience and customer contact, not process or data. He worries that modern software, especially as AI agents enable parallel feature-factory workflows, is becoming additive and incoherent: collections of capabilities without a point of view. He hopes easier software creation lets builders go deeper on perspective rather than diluting it.
HN Discussion:
  • ~Linear benefits from being its own customer, which simplifies their taste-driven approach
  • ↑Agrees that the value of software creation lies in vision and taste, not code
  • ↑Confirms that products are becoming incoherent collections of features without unified vision
  • ↑AI will highlight the difference between technical completion and creating genuine human value
  • ↓Intuition vs data is a false dichotomy; both are complementary tools