- Karri Saarinen, writing for Linear, argues that good products carry the experience, interests, and way of working of the people who made them. This means users can feel that point of view in a product even without knowing its makers.
- The original post says Linear values intuition over data or procedure. Here, intuition is not arbitrary taste but judgment that comes from talking with customers and learning through mistakes.
- According to the original post, a single feature can work well on its own and still make the whole product worse. The author notes an impression that many recent products are shifting toward adding features rather than rethinking core problems.
- The author speculates that a pattern where individuals make their own changes together with agents could fuel this trend. The original post offers no research or figures to support this.
O: When feature requests pile up on the Linear product team, a PM might ask in a meeting whether a change solves the product's core problem or just adds features.
X: The original article is the view of its author, Karri Saarinen, and the first thing to question is that it offers no measurements or comparison cases to support the judgment that adding features makes a product worse.