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

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

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In many cases, sticky notes are more productive.

Where "many cases" all involve a team of 2 to 5 people working together in the same room and never bringing work home.

I'm pretty confident though with no solid evidence if you lower the first number by 1 you are describing the vast majority of employed programmers in the world.

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

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I see. So AI is reducing the number of jobs in the tech sector because fewer people are needed to ship stuff (thanks to AI). And since fewer people are needed across the tech sector then we don't need things like Jira anymore because it can all be done on post-its or Google sheets or something, so there's no need for Atlassian accounts anymore. And Atlassian can now do more with less thanks to AI. I can't wait for At…

In my last jobs Jira was used, and despised by all except product managers. It just becomes a mess. In my startup (now 20 people), we use Trello. Outsiders look at us funny. I respond that its the same company after all...

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

#144

Layoffs because of AI make no sense to me. Imagine you own a company that is paid to deliver packages. You use horses and differentiate by delivering quicker than everyone else. Then cars are invented and everyone starts delivering packages faster. In what world does a healthy growing business react to this by laying off couriers "in a pivot to automotive transportation". Would a healthy business not switch everyone…

It's more about looking good for Wall Street. For example, Block was just rewarded for a similar move: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/block-stock-explodes-jack-dor...

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

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Where are the most popular alternatives to Jira?

Linear is great if you fit into its workflow. It's very dev orientated. I work on Aha! Develop https://www.aha.io/develop/overview which I obviously think is a great tool, especially if you're a team with a product manager.

What do you mean by fit into it's work flow?

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

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post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They just announced GA of agentic assignees. It suggests a year or more of maturation. Rovo Dev has already been a thing. The Java products are almost EOL. They have already been assigning JAC tickets to Rovo and $TEAM is down. What else should be done with the surplus headcount?

Are you making the argument that Atlassian’s products are basically done, no more development needed?

Right! There is more performance to be taken away yet! They're nearly there but plenty is left. Jira can be made "let's go brew coffee and come back" slow if the really tried

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

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post #97

I see. So AI is reducing the number of jobs in the tech sector because fewer people are needed to ship stuff (thanks to AI). And since fewer people are needed across the tech sector then we don't need things like Jira anymore because it can all be done on post-its or Google sheets or something, so there's no need for Atlassian accounts anymore. And Atlassian can now do more with less thanks to AI. I can't wait for At…

In many cases, sticky notes are more productive.

Dragging a card to the "Done" column just doesn't hit as hard as crumpling up a sticky note and yeeting it.

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

#150

If they are paying them 6-month severances like Block did, this means they are effectively saying 1,600 people for 6-months wouldn't have fixed JIRA's usability and performance, which if they could have done like many have been begging, they'd would probably make more money long-term than this firing would save.

I mean probably not. It's not 1,400 hardcore engineers and 200 Jony Ives being let go, it's a mix of everyone including randoms like HR and the person who orders the office coffee. Business is not good.

Okay I just wrote an "it's not, it's..." organically, is this the zeitgeist or what.

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