Linear’s Secret to Building Powerful AI Products | Nan Yu, VP of Product (Linear)

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Today, we’re joined again by Nan Yu, Head of Product at Linear. In this episode, Nan shares: Why you’re wrong to think of AI as a way to reduce costs - and why the real value is in enabling new work that was previously impossible The 3 must-haves he’s deduced from across the most successful AI products to produce consistently great outcomes for users The behind-the-scenes details of Linear’s new Agent Interaction Guidelines Links Nan's LinkedIn: Nan's X: Linear: Linear's previous episode of LaunchPod: Resources Linear's Agent Interaction Guidelines: Granola.ai: Cursor: Chapters 00:00: Intro 03:24: Using AI as a harness, the systems and context layers that make AI tools repeatable and useful at scale 07:54: Scaling AI tools to ensure consistency and quality 14:14: Analyzing user interaction, tweak time, and feedback 18:29: Linear's new Agent Interaction Guidelines 22:14: How AI is changing the role of engineers 27:42: AI's impact on junior roles 30:10: Conclusion Follow LaunchPod on YouTube We have a new YouTube page ! Watch full episodes of our interviews with PM leaders and subscribe! What does LogRocket do?

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