AI agents are about to route around every tool that can't pass 5 structural tests. Here's the diagnostic.
Karri Saarinen, the CEO of Linear, declared issue tracking dead in March. His argument was reasonable. Issue trackers were built for a world where coordination between humans was the bottleneck, and when agents can interpret context directly, that translation step is friction. It was a clean thesis from a designer who had spent his career making the category better.
