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When everyone ships with their own agents, products lose a point of view. Builders say someone must own the whole
Product LeadershipUI/UX Design
- Linear's CEO says products built by people each running their own agents become an average of many outputs with no shared point of view.
- Ryan Singer says a tightly integrated product is like a bonsai, where parallel changes collide even when the code merges cleanly.
- Peter Merholz argues design should own coherence, and Jordan Singer says he wants to feel the creator behind software, not the factory.
- Only four voices say it so far, all product and design leaders arguing from experience rather than data.
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First seen 22 Sep 2026
If you are a PM
BeforeNow
The point of view is unwrittenWrite it down, check each change
A working change gets shippedSomeone checks it fits the rest of the product
Success is features addedCount core problems made simpler
BeforeNow
Nobody owns how the parts fit
Who said it
r/UXDesignreddit.com · 31 October 2026
No Figma workflow for web product recommendations…Upon joining there was no Figma, PM and engineers just vibe coded the React front end. It gets the job done but there are lots of UI inconsistencies and unnecessary UI variants. …Karri Saarinen, Linear CEOx.com · 16 October 2026
…Each change might make sense on its own, but together they start to resemble Frankenstein’s monster rather than a carefully shaped sculpture. Without the shared perspective, soul, or thought, the product becomes an average of all those outputs. …