Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI

I don't understand the AI layoffs; there's always an infinite supply of new work that could be done. Instead of firing 1600 people, why not have all of them use AI to produce more stuff and outrun their competitors.

Presumably all their competitors also know about Claude as well, and a lot of these 1600 people will go work for them and use Claude.

Unless this is just regular layoffs, but they know if they brand it as "AI" their investors will eat it up.

Re: Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI

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Post by stego-tech » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 10:56 PM UTC

Welp. Fuck Atlassian. Their resistance towards arbitrary RTO mandates and a people-first culture had me tolerate the weirdness of JIRA and Confluence, but now?

Fuck ‘em. Rolling my own using shelfware, kthxbai.

Re: Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI

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Post by hlpn » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 10:56 PM UTC

TutleCpt wrote: post #5

Where are the most popular alternatives to Jira?

Linear is great

Re: Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI

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Post by tombert » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 10:56 PM UTC

TutleCpt wrote: post #5

Where are the most popular alternatives to Jira?

I don't know if it's "popular", but I use Clickup at work and I think it's generally fine. At least when I have used it it's less laggy and horrible than Jira.