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

eek2121

This is fine. I suspect many folks have been trying to get away from JIRA and related apps for a while now. chef's kiss

jamesliudotcc

The link is wrong. It should be https://www.reuters.com/technology/atlassian-lay-off-about-1... @dang

TutleCpt

Where are the most popular alternatives to Jira?

tombert

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 this is just regular layoffs, but they know if they brand it as "AI" their investors will eat it up.

stego-tech

Welp. Fuck Atlassian. Their resistance towards arbitrary RTO mandates and a people-first culture had me tolerate the weirdness of JIRA and Confluence, but now? Fuck ‘em. Rolling my own using shelfware, kthxbai.

heohk

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?

tigerlily

The Druuge Mauler chugs on.

cheriot

Does Atlassian still have the tech debt that lead to extended outages? https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/scoop-atlassian

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/

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

gnulinux996

My reading is they are _announcing_ the job cuts to keep the stock from tumbling. I don't think any AI productivity gains are involved.

lousken

Should've sent those 1600 people to fix their horrible performance of cloud apps, oh well I guess opening a jira ticket will now take not 5 but 10 seconds.

MeetingsBrowser

Layoffs 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 to driving cars and deliver even more packages?

the_real_cher

Ironically you can actually use AI to replace Jira.

elzbardico

Atlassian 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.

rvz

This is AGI.

KnuthIsGod

AI is great ! It is a great excuse for underperforming and incompetent CEOs. It provides the CEO with a wonderful excuse for sacking people.

karim79

I see. So AI is reducing the number of jobs in the tech sector because fewer people are needed to ship stuff (thanks to AI). And since fewer people are needed across the tech sector then we don't need things like Jira anymore because it can all be done on post-its or Google sheets or something, so there's no need for Atlassian accounts anymore. And Atlassian can now do more with less thanks to AI. I can't wait for Atlassian physical sticky-notes to take over. [Edit: grammo and formatting]

cmiles8

I don’t think anyone believes this is because they are becoming more efficient because of AI. It may be a bit because AI makes their products even less attractive than they already were.