Story · Will Larson
Trying the Software factory pattern. (Will Larson)
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Imprint's year of agent adoption reads as workflow changes, not model changes: about ten local workspaces, each with an independent checkout of every repository, so agents can generate pull requests across frontend, backend, infrastructure and data. Then the company left Jira for Linear over task visibility and permissions.
In plain words
- Imprint changed how its staff organize software work as they began using artificial intelligence (AI) more widely.
- Separate computer workspaces each contain all its software projects, so AI can prepare connected changes across those projects.
- The company moved everyone's tasks to Linear to make work easier to see and access rules less complicated.
- For Imprint's staff, these changes address the difficulty of coordinating AI work across software projects.
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Sep 21, 2026 · in the sections
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