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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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Post by tombert »

Sol- wrote: post #19
tombert wrote: post #7

Please don't tell me that Jira is about to get even worse... 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 th…

> there's always an infinite supply of new work that could be done I definitely buy this for the software sector or the economy as a whole, but for an individual company? Seems one would be bottlenecked by various factors quickly. Perhaps better to let people go so that they can be productive elsewhere?

There's always bugs that can be fixed, there's always optimizations that can be done, there's always a feature that someone wants to build but hasn't had budget to do. There's always improvements that can be done for deployment. There's always ways of reducing memory. There's always ways of reducing ongoing expenses etc.

I have worked for a bunch of companies, and even relatively new and young companies have all these things pile up pretty quickly.

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

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Post by bombcar »

heohk wrote: post #16

What does the "incur $230 million in charges" mean? Why would it cost them money to lay people off and have less office space? Possibly a bad LLM edit; maybe they meant to say would save $230 million through reduced headcount and less office space?

Usually layoffs have a one-time charge associated with closures and severance and other such payments (COBRA?).

But $230 million over 1,600 is $145k per person.

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

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Post by alexpotato »

Chartr Daily had this chart [0] back in 2023 and it shows how much the big tech firms grew from 2016 to 2022.

Some of the firms, Apple being the exception, doubled or even almost tripled in size.

I'm sure AI is partly to blame here but I think a lot of it is over hiring and firms just getting bogged down in bureaucracy and trying to clear things out.

0 - https://www.instagram.com/p/CnxN-Mayo3N/

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

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Post by mjfisher »

Can anyone recommend good alternatives to Jira? Things that keep me defaulting to it:

- Scales well from simple configuration and workflows to more complex multiboard views/custom fields/layouts per issue type etc

- Good OOTB integration with common CI/CD - see PRs, deploys etc from each ticket

- Good (adequate?) integration with their wiki in Confluence

- JQL for being able to do custom reporting tooling (get me all issues transitioned to X status in this time period)

Things that frustrate me:

- Complexity/UI around configuration

- Very poor kanban metrics reporting

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

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Post by MikeNotThePope »

antonymoose wrote: post #23
TutleCpt wrote: post #5

Where are the most popular alternatives to Jira?

What do you need out of Jira? Most any firm I’ve worked for could replace it with Trello or any Kanban style tool in a heartbeat.

It's worth pointing out that Trello has been owned by Atlassian since 2017.

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

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Post by computomatic »

TutleCpt wrote: post #5

Where are the most popular alternatives to Jira?

Have you tried nothing at all? Had great success with this on a 150+ dev team. Much preferred to jira. Admittedly does require a different approach to work than a jira-centric team is going to be familiar with.
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