why buy? mythos can find some exploits and exfiltrate all the customer data for free.
Rumor: Anthropic is going to buy Atlassian?
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Re: Rumor: Anthropic is going to buy Atlassian?
#12Anthropic's current valuation is $800 billion.
Atlassian's is $19 billion.
Is Anthropic really worth 40x Atlassian? If so, is it worth them spending just 2.5% of their valuation to acquire Atlassian's 300,000 enterprise customers?
I would be very bullish if this were to happen.
Re: Rumor: Anthropic is going to buy Atlassian?
#13Related front page discussion about Atlassian changing their data policies to train on customers’ data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833247
There have been rumors all over social media that the exits from Atlassian’s C suite (allegedly firings) and this aggressive privacy violating change are all because their stock is down 80% and they’re trying to find the most valuable path to selling the company.
Re: Rumor: Anthropic is going to buy Atlassian?
#14I can’t even imagine why Anthropic would need Atlassian. Atlassian doesn’t even have an MCP server built in—you have to set up an external one. And Anthropic could build something just as good using its own tool with blackjack and hookers. (In fact, forget the park!(с))
It does have one, we use it at work.
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/remote-mcp-serv...
Re: Rumor: Anthropic is going to buy Atlassian?
#15I can’t even imagine why Anthropic would need Atlassian. Atlassian doesn’t even have an MCP server built in—you have to set up an external one. And Anthropic could build something just as good using its own tool with blackjack and hookers. (In fact, forget the park!(с))
They get to skip 20 years of figuring out how work gets done in different industries if they can train on the information from everyone’s Jira and Confluence and whatever else Atlassian sells. That data makes Cowork and Claude better. And then you have an advantage that is more than just having the best model (which others are catching up on). It’s harder to catch up on this data moat.
Re: Rumor: Anthropic is going to buy Atlassian?
#16Assuming this isn't just trolling what is the value? Atlassian's codebase is full of security and performance bugs, and I don't think anyone could make the argument with a straight face that JIRA is a source of high quality training data.
The only thing I could think of is getting a sales foothold into Fortune 500 companies. "We see you have 1,744 man-years of outstanding bugs, want us to just boil a small lake and replace your dev team?"
Re: Rumor: Anthropic is going to buy Atlassian?
#17Jira/Confluence with Claude would actually be pretty nice. Jira’s current AI tool has not once done what I asked, and it usually does it wrong in soul-crushing ways. “Oh, no, I’ve decided I can’t create new tickets. Better change the titles of most recent existing tickets and call it a day.”
Re: Rumor: Anthropic is going to buy Atlassian?
#18My pet theory here is that Anthropic wants to be the end-to-end system for all software delivery on the web, with its model firmly at the centre of that universe. I have seen posts (but not confirmed) that as part of their recent breach was part of a Vercel-like clone. From that POV, Atlassian could be useful for a few reasons:
1. Data, forget Jira tickets, but Confluence and Service Desk could be valuable for requirements shaping on the model. 2. Customers, as it's easy NRR to include on their balance sheet and would help with an IPO. 3. Infra, Atlassian has been remarkably stable for the last few years (in my region at least) while Anthropic have been suffering, maybe there's some ops acquihire advantage.
For the love of god, don't be true, though.
Re: Rumor: Anthropic is going to buy Atlassian?
#19At a previous job I had a hiccup onboarding to Atlassian. The startup founder sent initial invite to college email address, and then when we got our own domain and corporate email addresses everyone migrated their accounts over. Except me. Whenever I would try the process would fail. Eventually a human at Atlassian manually migrated me and lamented that their codebase was so labyrinthine and crusty that the bug would never be fixed.
Initially I wanted to write this comment saying buying them would be a bad idea just for the technical debt... But maybe they have the perfect "already vibe coded by humans" software to have an AI company take over.
Re: Rumor: Anthropic is going to buy Atlassian?
#20why buy? mythos can find some exploits and exfiltrate all the customer data for free.
In your frame, why would you be so quick to cut theatrics? Or is this what the kids are calling "jester-maxxing"