What Karri Saarinen thinks about AI agents
Co-founder and CEO of Linear; previously principal designer at Airbnb, where he led the Design Language System, and founding designer at Coinbase.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Karri Saarinen has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingWorking alone with agents may be efficient, but it means people stop learning from each other.
Their wordsa lot of people are working alone with their agents building things and I think it's efficient but then there's also the problems like we not learning from each other anymore
↗Context is now the product: Product leadership when software can build itself | Karri Saarinen (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 5th of 10 in this recording