Trello has been getting worse
‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push
Submitted 5 hours ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
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sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 24 minutes ago
IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
I FUCKING hate jira with a passion. I swear to god that dumbfuck software is nothing but a miserable time sink.
I am sorry for the people who got laid off. Also there is no way AI is replacing the CTO….
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 11 minutes ago
I would have more hate to send Jira’s way if not for all are tickets being written like:
“As a developer given I am working on page X Then all functionality of page X is correct”
Then everybody gets pissy that page Y has a bug.
very_well_lost@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Of all the shitty AI products flooding the market right now, Atlassian’s Rovo has got to be the most useless I’ve had the misfortune of using.
They should be hiring more workers to fix their AI slop, not replacing them with even more of it.
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
The biggest surprise in the article is that Atlassian is not profitable. How? They pretty much have a monopoly in the Jira-like space (look , I can’t even think of a generic name) and they charge a hefty sum for their products. How tf do they lose money?
dhork@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
The article lists an insane revenue of $1.6B, yet the losses are only on the order of $42M. Against that much revenue, it looks to me like they are managing the company at a slight loss on purpose. They probably could close that gap if they wanted to, but have some favorable tax implications or something by running that slight loss.
(And who knows, maybe this is part of the attempt to close that gap a d show a profit before the founders cash out and it all gets sold to a Whittier company)
Xaphanos@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Agile project management. And ticketing. And document management.
There are others. We are working on moving to Asana and other products.
_wizard@lemmy.world 4 minutes ago
Redmine. Open source and free.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 58 minutes ago
Asana is… not a whole lot better.
MrSulu@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Atlassian now circling the drain.
Bloefz@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I hope they will go down the drain. No more Jira! 🙏
remon@ani.social 2 hours ago
Yes, please! I hate that shitty bloatware so much.
addie@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
We can only hope so.
I’ve suggested to my team a few times that we should start a new business developing “Atlassian, but good”. They’re up for it. So many of our wider business have never used “anything but Jira”, and they can’t see it for the steaming pile of shite that it is. Not just that it’s a bad tool for developers, QE, project management or customer support, but they couldn’t imagine anything that’s better in any way, or how it would look if it didn’t have so many issues.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
As a future customer, please include high quality connectors to import legacy data from Jira and Confluence. We’re going to need them. Thank you in advance.
Shameless@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
If you were starting a new company what would you use instead of Jira?
oh_@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Rovo AI sucks and they keep adding crap AI feature after crap feature.
dellhiver@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
About 16k workers? How!?
What a waste of human effort, time and resources. All to make a few bad products, worse.
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
I’m not surprised. Jira is a monster.
As with any software, look how complex it is as a user, the hidden part is 10x worse.phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
It’s possible to have complex, poorly-architected stuff going on behind the curtains, even if the UI is simple. And vice-versa. And even worse, like JIRA, both can be a dog’s breakfast.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
It’s not 16k, it’s 800×2
WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
1600
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
16k total headcount. Well, not that much longer
rosgl@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Maybe because stock price hit the floor cause no profits from their work?
andallthat@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
AI-washing layoffs. They will replace shit with AI but that’s a better story than “we have to reduce costs because we don’t have cheap ways to refinance our $1B debt”.
Credit isn’t cheap and Iran is not going to make it cheaper, investments in software have tanked, so the only story that still can be told almost with a straight face is that they still have big growth opportunities thanks to the magic of AI.