Software giant Atlassian has announced it is laying off about 10% of its workforce, or roughly 1,600 positions, and replacing its chief technology officer as it restructures to invest further in artificial intelligence.
Shares of the company rose more than 4% in extended trading on the Nasdaq.
The company’s co-founder, Mike Cannon-Brookes, told employees the move was “the right decision for Atlassian” in a note circulated late Wednesday, US time.
“But that doesn’t mean it’s easy,” he said. “Far from it. I know this has a huge impact on each of you, and it weighs heavily on me and Atlassian today.”
About 640 affected employees are in North America, 480 in Australia and 250 in India, with the remainder spread across Japan, the Philippines, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, a spokesperson said.
Oh, I hope this kills them. I’m desperate to never use Confluence or Jira ever again.
I hate the AI thing in confluence. Stop asking me to improve writing or summarize. I know how to read and write.
You can turn that off.
No, I like to know how to read and write.
Maybe if they spent more time fixing 12 year old data corruption bugs instead of chasing AI slop…
It’s Atlassian, which we call Half-Assed-ian. They make Flatulence and Jeer-a.
*laughing as Atlassian dies*
“I guess I was the…”
*puts on sunglasses*
“jeer-a all along.”
wraaaaaaawwwww electric guitar music
Or providing a way to backup their cloud instances instead of deprecating the only way to do it. (They have a solution but it’s just for the enterprise customers.)
I spent weeks moving a company’s decades-long history from on-prem to their cloud after they EOL’d their self hosted products. What a letdown. Somehow a multibillion dollar company can’t compete with an ancient quad core server shoved in a coat closet when it comes to page load times.
The constant upselling for their shite AI products drives me crazy. And the worst part is the elements are dynamic and uBlock can’t consistently kill it. Ugh.
Somehow a multibillion dollar company can’t compete with an ancient quad core server shoved in a coat closet when it comes to page load times.
To be fair, it’s nearly impossible for remote sites to beat on-prem page load times, given the added per-component transit times over the internet.
Shhh … the cloud is the only way forward. Heresy!
Totally true, but I’m talking an order of magnitude or two difference…
A query returning ~100 jira tickets would take about 250-300ms on our old beater running Postgres on busted old SAS drives shared with a bunch of other crap. Seek times were atrocious but not catastrophic. It usually didn’t timeout, and only crashed once in a while.
Sunning the same search on jira cloud now takes 2-3 seconds, often even more because the page first has to load 20 MB of JavaScript bullshit. Time from clicking a link to seeing information is so long you’ve got enough time to take a sip and put the coffee down.
Like I get it, distributed systems are hard. And having a multi tenant system as big as they run is probably crazy complicated. But come on, there’s no excuse for that level of consistently bad performance!!
The company’s co-founder, Mike Cannon-Brookes [worth $7.2 billion], told employees the move was “the right decision for Atlassian” in a note circulated late Wednesday, US time.
“But that doesn’t mean it’s easy,” he said. “Far from it. I know this has a huge impact on each of you, and it weighs heavily on me and Atlassian today.” Cannon-Brookes used some wads of cash to dry his crocodile tears. “This is why I have to sleep on a big bed full of money tonight.”
Is it really because of the AI or because we’re going into a quiet recession?
Both, honestly. It’s also because people are realizing that they hate Jira.
Hello, I just wanted to say that I hate Jira.
Not me.
(I’ve known that all along, since I first laid eyes upon it and it refused to sort by “date”.)
Jira sucks so much
TBF have no idea how that many devs can make such poor products - Design by committee I guess. Having attempted their hiring process, why can’t the devs just use their incredible b-tree implementing skills to make Jira not shit?
I used to work there. As a dev you’re very limited on what you can change. Anything that was ever supported (even undocumented features or bugs) are heavily relied on by some customers.
If they’re going all in AI then they’re gonna have to do better that their barely adequate Rovo chat feature.
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