Our product is being used for real production large codebases, not just toy apps, and many users have never opened the code editor.

We chose to build an editor instead of a browser extension for our product, which was a non-obvious decision at the time but aligned with our vision for a more radical future in coding. In the future, programming will look very different, requiring a control UI to adapt to new models.

Building a tool like GitHub Copilot required significant changes to the editor, which was organizationally challenging.

We initially built Linear for ourselves, focusing on creating a tool that we would want to use daily, which helped us define our product's features.

We're a dramatically faster way to build custom internal tools, allowing companies to create tools without starting from scratch every time.

We believe that the software will get easier to build over time, and we invested in capabilities to deeply understand the codebase and the intent of developers.

Switching to VS Code was a decision based on the expectation of accelerated feature development compared to NeoVim or Emacs.

In my startup, we built a drag-and-drop visual editor to help non-technical users create surveys easily, solving a common problem for website owners.

We've invested heavily in understanding large codebases, which is crucial for making significant changes quickly.