AI is great !
It is a great excuse for underperforming and incompetent CEOs.
It provides the CEO with a wonderful excuse for sacking people.
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
#82Where 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.
Re: Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI
#83Layoffs 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…
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?
Re: Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI
#84Atlassian is cutting another 1600 jobs because it needs to cut more jobs as it is a dying company with terrible products. But let's try to spin it up as if we were some kind of AI mavens who are reaping humongous increases in productivity due to our thought leadership in AI.
Atlassian is very far from "dying"
Re: Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI
#85Atlassian is cutting another 1600 jobs because it needs to cut more jobs as it is a dying company with terrible products. But let's try to spin it up as if we were some kind of AI mavens who are reaping humongous increases in productivity due to our thought leadership in AI.
95% of these announcements are exactly how you say. There're just too many incentives to layoff and call it AI:
- CEO (under pressure to move in the AI space) comes across as an AI maven
- The shareholders improve margins
I think we're reeling from rate increases. Too much free money for too long.
Re: 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
#87Layoffs 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…
You need a very different skill set and culture for driving and maintaining cars than for driving and maintaining horses. I honestly think that for big changes like this (if you are willing to accept that AI is such), looking at it from the portfolio management angle, it makes more sense to just nuke the current operation and start a greenfield one.
Senior engineers have been 'vibe coding' for over a decade before AI. Think what they do, they look at PRs all day and comment. Magically the code change reflecting their comments. It's the same thing now but machines are doing it, not humans. The issue is that junior engineers have no experience working like senior engineers. The reality is that it's not that hard to work in this way. There is no excuse for software companies not being able to re-train their more junior engineers to work this way.
Re: Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI
#88Atlassian is cutting another 1600 jobs because it needs to cut more jobs as it is a dying company with terrible products. But let's try to spin it up as if we were some kind of AI mavens who are reaping humongous increases in productivity due to our thought leadership in AI.
Atlassian is very far from "dying"
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Re: Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI
#89Where 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.
I 100%, sincerely agree that "nothing at all" is really a great option compared to Jira. I actually hired a whole person onto my project to make them responsible for ticket tracking, telling them they could use whatever they wanted so long as I never had to look at Jira again. They used Jira for a while because it's what other people were pressuring them to use, but ultimately they started using MS Planner. MS Planner! I mean, Planner is garbage too, but at least it's not Jira.
Re: Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI
#90Where 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.
Where do you put the story points????