Layoffs to affect 10% of workforce amid Australian company’s restructuring plan to push into artificial intelligence and enterprise sales
  • andallthat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    164·
    3 days ago

    AI-washing layoffs. They will replace jack shit with AI but that’s a better story than “we have to reduce costs because we don’t have cheap ways to refinance our $1B debt”.

    Credit isn’t cheap and Iran is not going to make it cheaper, investments in software have tanked, so the only story that can still be told with an almost straight face is that they still have big growth opportunities thanks to the magic of AI.

  • Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    That sucks, but how the fuck does Atlassian have 16,000 workers to begin with? What do they all do? And their products look like… Guestures at all of them

    • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.caEnglish
      26·
      3 days ago

      Good, someone has to think of the poor race car drivers, and their million dollar team.

      • RicoBerto@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        14·
        3 days ago

        A million dollars is probably just the catering budget, tbh. I don’t even know what this company does, I just saw that no one else had pointed this out. It sounds like I’m lucky to not use their software.

        Every company is just firing employees left and right and I’m not sure what they all expect to happen. I guess just through the magic of AI they can have less workers do more for the same pay. But damn, so many people let go all over the place.

        • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          10·
          3 days ago

          They make jira, project management software that is so slow and annoying you’re better off using a chat and shared files on Google drive.

          They also make a bunch of other shitty software but jira is the most famous.

        • chillpanzee@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          I was thinking along the same lines, like they probably spend more on fuel. I remember when Honda pissed everyone off in the 1990s after inflating F1 budgets and then suddenly leaving the sport when the Japanese market crashed. At the time they had Honda factory R&D teams designing and building engines just for F1 teams; that was probably tens of millions a year that wasn’t even part of a team’s budget… in the 80s and 90s.

          Anyhow… F1 teams have a budget cap for several years now. For 2026, it’s $215 million, and that doesn’t include engines, nor driver and team manager salaries.

  • BioDriver@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    3 days ago

    It’s not because of their garbage AI. It’s because their garbage AI is leading to people dropping them like a bad habit for open source and fucking Microsoft alternatives, so they need to reduce operating costs and CAPEX to demonstrate profit growth

  • patruelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    3 days ago

    Yet everyone helps feed this AI beast. No one thinks… Maybe I’m helping this through my data.

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      this post helps to feed the AI beast

      there’s no escaping it; let’s not do with AI what we’ve done with CO2 and plastic and shift blame to individuals

      • patruelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        I agree. However we are feeding it not through the data, but through $, subscriptions and data minng.

        We have a choice to renounce the subscription to meta, OpenAi, yet we dont.

  • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    2 days ago

    Oh boy, guess we can look forward to more vibe-coded slop which will make it an even bigger pain to use.

  • wosat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    571·
    3 days ago

    There is a Jira ticket (ID-240) for Atlassian requesting the ability to merge Atlassian accounts that is over 10 years old. I’m one of the 1,450 watchers. This news does not bode well for this ticket ever getting implemented.

    • nelson@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Hodgepodge.

      AI will vibecode that into production in a week. And to make it all easier…it’ll have merged your account with 10 competitors too so you know what they’re working on!

  • SaraTonin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    3 days ago

    About 6 months ago they spent more than half a billion acquiring The Browser Company whose only currently-being-developed product is a pretty wrapper for ChatGPT

  • ImWaitingForRetcons@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    This is going to be horrible. We’ve been trying to get a quote from them for a bit bucket subscription for the past 6 months with no success. I doubt we’ll be getting anything faster now.

      • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        Ticketing systems are useful. It’s not really all that practical to carry all that workflow and prioritization info as metadata on a version-control system. And some devs might think it’s unnecessary, but that’s because they’re sheltered from all the higher-level planning, resourcing and portfolio management that they never need to think about.

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          I think the person you were responding to meant that the execs were not useful (see the parent comment), or at least not as useful to the overall enterprise as their salaries would have lead you to believe, in comparison to a standard developer.

          Yes workflow systems are useful. Jira is a bad implementation to a good idea. It might help if they listened to feedback from people who actually used their software to improve it. Tbf they do make some good changes occasionally, like adding dark mode (which isn’t perfect but also it isn’t nothing).

  • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldEnglish
    124·
    3 days ago

    Of all the shitty AI products flooding the market right now, Atlassian’s Rovo has got to be the most useless I’ve had the misfortune of using.

    They should be hiring more workers to fix their AI slop, not replacing them with even more of it.