241–250 of 320 posts
[flagged]
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Jira is, uh, not my favorite software (ask my manager), but "AI-based replacement Jira" is the worst AI thing I've heard, and that's saying _a lot_.
If you want to fall in love with Jira, try ServiceNow Agile Development (flick through some screenshots on Google Image Search to feel the pain).
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.
A lot of problems (I’d say the majority in tech) can be solved faster and better by 100 people than 1600.
I don't get the atlassian backlash on HN JIRA is just fine, gets the job done. Its not slow like the on-prem. Jira cloud version is fine.
Where are the most popular alternatives to Jira?
I do not understand why Jetbrains Youtrack is not more widely used. It's affordable, supports markdown, has a better vcs integration, fast & easy API...
Smart move from JetBrains - many companies will already be paying them for their IDEs.
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…
So 80 horse riders are out. You can't scale linearly, market is not supply bound usually, it's demand bound.
I mean, they save money and Jira is already a slow buggy and insecure pile of sloppy code so there is no real downside.
A company that prizes actually making customer lives better (i.e. "innovation") will salivate at the prospect of having ten of ten people, each using the Drudgery Automator, being creative using all that drugery-free time to actually touch grass with their customers and ship overnight value (i.e. actually, progressively, make things better for customers) and then improve it at a pace that blows minds (i.e. actually happy customers).
An company who's business is in fact about drudgery automation will kneecap itself by letting go nine of the ten.
Long/Short stocks accordingly.