Technology

My employer has been axing so many high level engineers it's not even funny. I think that's terrible for engineer morale. Why would you want to strive to improve and get promoted if it just makes you "too expensive to keep on payroll"?

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

That explains the explosion of unwanted AI features in Jira these days. No, I don't need you to re-write my fucking ticket comment!

You're absolutely right!

Would you like me to yassify this ticket for you?

Pretty much all of my colleagues wasted time, because Jira stores comments locally that you haven't yet sent, but does not do that for replies on comments. Those are gone after reopening the site for some reason.

Them and Salesforce can both be Thanos’d out of existence, pretty please

I use Jira at work and I still have no idea what the fuck it is, what it's for, or why it's so needlessly complicated. It's a list of text with some dates and names. Why is that worth shit?

I've had to use it in various forms for so long now and I can't believe how unintuitive it is to use. Nothing outside of adding comments is obvious. I dared to try to see what was in a previous sprint and it basically requires a custom report. Why isn't there just a view sprint dropdown or something? I did a quick search to see if it was just me which lead to the Jira subreddit (why is that a thing?) and felt like I was getting gaslit by all the jira 'professionals' calling it a skill issue

I would have more hate to send Jira's way if not for all are tickets being written like:

"As a developer given I am working on page X Then all functionality of page X is correct"

Then everybody gets pissy that page Y has a bug.

"I feel like we've gotten much better with our acceptance criteria" - one of the people getting pissy about page Y

Trying to get Rovo to do things in JIRA is like trying to train a chimp to cram shit back into an elephant’s ass.

The article lists an insane revenue of $1.6B, yet the losses are only on the order of $42M in the last 3 months. Against that much revenue, it looks to me like they are managing the company at a slight loss on purpose. They probably could close that gap if they wanted to, but have some favorable tax implications or something by running that "slight" loss.

(And who knows, maybe this is part of the attempt to close that gap and show a profit before the founders cash out and it all gets sold to a Shittier company)

Agile project management. And ticketing. And document management.

There are others. We are working on moving to Asana and other products.

We can only hope so.

I've suggested to my team a few times that we should start a new business developing "Atlassian, but good". They're up for it. So many of our wider business have never used "anything but Jira", and they can't see it for the steaming pile of shite that it is. Not just that it's a bad tool for developers, QE, project management or customer support, but they couldn't imagine anything that's better in any way, or how it would look if it didn't have so many issues.

I hope they will go down the drain. No more Jira! 🙏