| I have to say the new model is quite good at the basics, I've been handing over more and more tasks from Linear straight to it instead of the copy-paste into Claude dance lately. At this point, more of my complaints are on the harness side, which is odd since originally they were by far the best harness out there. Support - This is pretty much non-existant, it's community support or sales support. Interacting with GitHub - this should work and be awesome, Claude code does this well (responding to lint errors and comments). Cursor you have to poke the agent to look at the comments or lint errors, and even then it's about 10% good. Even GitHub Copilot is better here. Bugbot - I have it setup to trigger manually, but it still seems to wake up and burn 80-120k tokens just to notice it's configured to be manually invoked. When it does run, it tells me there's no issues (but claude or copilot both find real things) App - When you have both agent window and the ide windows, it's hard to open up the code in the right directory. A simple "cursor ." from the terminal used to do it, now it'll often open the agent window, you have to try a few times for it to work. I love that they are running super fast, it's just hard when many of the basics break or don't work. |
Tangent: we've been using Linear at work and I still don't understand why it claims to be "task tracking for agents". Is there anything at all that lends itself better to agentic workflows compared to JIRA or gitlab/github issues or whatever else?
Seems like Linear just hopped on the buzzword hype train at the exact right moment...