An important update on our team

snafu109 30 points 16 comments March 11, 2026
www.atlassian.com · View on Hacker News

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.

Semantic search powered by Rivestack pgvector
3,471 stories · 32,344 chunks indexed