AI Replaces Everyone at Linear

Today is a hard day. I shared this note with the @linear team today: We’ve made the difficult decision to increase our workforce. This is not a cost-cutting exercise or a reflection of anyone’s performance. We’re simply reimagining every role for the agentic AI era. We’re hiring. We’re sorry about that.

A screenshot of a post by Tuomas Artman announcing that Linear is increasing its workforce for the agentic AI era. The joke is that “increase our workforce” ambiguously means replacing human workers with AI, while pretending it is not cost-cutting or performance-related. It is shared as a sarcastic reaction to AI-driven layoffs and corporate messaging.

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