An important update on our team
snafu109
30 points
16 comments
March 11, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (10 comments)
pprotas
Won’t even let em keep their laptop
Trasmatta
> We are doing this to self-fund further investment in AI and enterprise sales, while strengthening our financial profile. I'm sure it's such a relief to the humans being fired that their salaries will be used for AI and enterprise sales.
lucketone
Tech company who messes with browser’s ctrl+f should be outcompeted.
Postosuchus
Oh no! Yet another "difficult but right decision" (tm) to self-fund further investment in AI.
bigwheels
At least the stock went up two bucks after the announcement, $75 -> $77: https://www.google.com/search?q=atlassian+stock&rlz=1C5GCEM_... Way to go, $TEAM.
upghost
> We are doing this to self-fund further investment in AI and enterprise sales while strengthening our financial profile. Some quotes from the video: > ...at the same time, we're a people company. > Your work will live on in our products. > Doing the right thing for Atlassian while acting with humanity and doing the right thing for all those on all sides of this set of decisions. Wow. There's a lot to unpack here.
ChrisArchitect
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47343156
mpalmer
> Our approach is not “AI replaces people”. > But [..] AI does[..] change the [..] number of roles required in certain areas. I can't believe how little this is paraphrasing it.
joeyguerra
When I see atlassian, I always think of the road to Abilene. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox
lovich
> We are doing this to self-fund further investment in AI and enterprise sales, while strengthening our financial profile. > Our approach is not “AI replaces people”. So I guess we’re only one step away from Andors “They don’t even bother to lie to us badly” given how bald faced this lie is.