[HN Gopher] Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI
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       Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI
        
       Author : jp0d
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2026-03-11 22:29 UTC (30 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.reuters.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.reuters.com)
        
       | eek2121 wrote:
       | 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_
        
       | kace91 wrote:
       | [flagged]
        
       | jamesliudotcc wrote:
       | The link is wrong. It should be
       | https://www.reuters.com/technology/atlassian-lay-off-about-1...
       | 
       | @dang
        
       | TutleCpt wrote:
       | Where are the most popular alternatives to Jira?
        
         | fsloth wrote:
         | [delayed]
        
         | hlpn wrote:
         | Linear is great
        
         | tombert wrote:
         | I don't know if it's "popular", but I use Clickup at work and I
         | think it's generally fine. At least when I have used it it's
         | less laggy and horrible than Jira.
        
       | tombert wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | verelo wrote:
         | It's likely not all this, but i expect an element is: there is
         | a meaningful number of people essentially refusing to work with
         | AI.
         | 
         | Antidotal but I have spoken to friends at Google who are
         | telling me many co-workers say "I tried it didn't work, ill do
         | it myself" when really they just didn't try very hard at all.
        
       | stego-tech wrote:
       | 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.
        
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