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title: zero-bugs policy
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  A **zero-bugs policy** is a software-development practice in which a team
  commits to fixing bugs as they are found rather than letting them accumulate
  in a backlog, keeping the product free of known defects before or alongside
  new work. In the channel’s captured material, the term is used by Linear’s
  cofounder and CEO Karri Saarinen in discussing how the company maintains
  product quality and judgment while rebuilding itself as an agent-native
  platform.
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# zero-bugs policy

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Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

A **zero-bugs policy** is a software-development practice in which a team commits to fixing bugs as they are found rather than letting them accumulate in a backlog, keeping the product free of known defects before or alongside new work. In the channel’s captured material, the term is used by Linear’s cofounder and CEO Karri Saarinen in discussing how the company maintains product quality and judgment while rebuilding itself as an agent-native platform.

In the channel’s interview with **Karri Saarinen**, cofounder and CEO of Linear, the **zero-bugs policy** comes up as part of a broader conversation about product quality, measuring work, and the enduring role of human judgment as Linear rebuilt itself as an agent-native platform [^c21e925e-a374-5583-a551-628601b7d1b9].nnA zero-bugs policy is a strong commitment: quality is treated as a precondition for moving forward, not a cleanup task left for later. In the context of the interview, it helps explain how a pre-AI-era SaaS company kept its product standards high while rethinking its strategy for the AI era.nnn- A **zero-bugs policy** means treating bugs as blockers to be resolved rather than tolerated backlog.n- In this channel, the term appears in the Linear interview as a lens on **quality and human judgment** [^c21e925e-a374-5583-a551-628601b7d1b9].n