SiliconANGLE: With Agentic Studio, LinearB provides the critical context needed to accelerate software delivery
Application development intelligence startup LinearB Inc. said today it’s trying to ease the growing congestion in organization’s software delivery pipelines that has arisen with the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence coding tools. It’s doing so with Agentic Studio, a new offering announced today that’s focused on providing more actionable context for human engineers and autonomous […] The post With Agentic Studio, LinearB provides the critical context needed to accelerate soft
Application development intelligence startup LinearB has launched Agentic Studio, a tool designed to address bottlenecks in software delivery pipelines that have emerged as AI coding tools become widespread. The problem stems from generative AI coding tools making code writing easier but creating massive backlogs, since AI-generated pull requests are much larger than human-written ones and take significantly longer to review. Agentic Studio works by consolidating data from Git repositories and project tracking tools into a unified layer that provides context to both human engineers and autonomous coding agents, allowing them to understand root causes of delays rather than just viewing metrics on traditional dashboards. The tool also includes agent skills that help AI systems calibrate their computational effort based on pull request complexity and risk, with additional skills for code review, merge governance, and cost optimization planned for future release.
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