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More of an "everyone's shit here" situation

To be fair, the financial market is deeply rewarding the "tell us what we want to hear" approach.

Even if the time should come where the chickens come home to roost, the key players will have gotten billions out of the mania in the meantime.

So on one hand you have someone making a fair pessimistic assessment of current approaches that isn't attractive to investors and his suggestion is very unproven. On the other hand you have someone that agrees with whatever the investors want to believe. The latter is, in this situation, an easy payday.

"Our gods are dead. Ancient Klingon warriors slew them a millennia ago. They were more trouble than they were worth." -Worf

Just talked to someone here on business and he was unfair to have been sent here and his family had wanted to go to American amusement parks for a vacation and he said absolutely no way with this administration.

Problem with being a business is that Atlassian isn't so much really a software company as much as they are a marketing thing that pretends to be software.

Agile consultants say "Atlassian", companies lap that up at the executive level and the employees roll with it because selecting Atlassian is "thought leadership". The people picking Atlassian are not the people using Atlassian. Paradoxically typical Atlassian rooted workflows are about as far from being actually agile as you can get.

As much as this is overly simplistic, there's a sort of appeal here..

The good news when you have proper issue management is that you don't lose any issues. The bad news is you don't lose any issues.

In my work, the issue tracker has issues that are over 5 years old. Any time someone dares to just purge those, some one comes out of the woodwork to suddenly passionately care about this thing they have forgotten for years until the jira notification triggered them.

Projects that have pristine issue discipline tend to suck, as they waste so much energy on things that didn't matter whether or is fixing or engaging in an argument about the value. The better projects tend to say "fine, we will hold that issue in low priority backlog and get to it if we ever run out of better stuff to do", and the submitter is placated and everyone knows we will never run out of better stuff to do.

I mean, it's confirming what folks pretty much already knew and won't make a dent in the cringe corporate culture... I guess it's at least somewhat nice to see it more formally affirmed, but on the other hand it could be even more depressing that you were right all along and it doesn't even matter...

Problem as evidenced by a lot of outsourcing success is that the people cutting the checks are not fazed by broken software.

This applies to a lot of industries where laypeople are at the mercy of 'expertise', a lot of folks doing things like HVAC or auto mechanics are actually not that good, and while they are the bane of the good HVAC and mechanics, they manage to secure market share just fine. Yes, there are mechanics that have crappier mechanics to thank for them having some stuff to fix, but the crappy mechanics can do easy stuff fine and lots of people driving with something busted because the mechanic couldn't figure it out and told the customer "yeah, it actually is normal for it to be that way".

I've heard it before....

And now we have LLMs...

Workers who were more susceptible to corporate BS rated their supervisors as more charismatic and “visionary,” but also displayed lower scores on a portion of the study that tested analytic thinking, cognitive reflection and fluid intelligence.

Guess which workers the supervisors like and want to see more and promote and which ones they really want to get rid of?

BTW, AI text also is interesting to evaluate in this context.

This is the fascinating thing about this bubble. Usually people are suspecting a bubble/perceiving it, and are afraid of when it pops, but no one really wants it to pop, they just don't like the fragility it causes knowing it could pop any minute.

So many people actively want the AI bubble to pop. I can't recall a bubble so odious that everyone was rooting for it to hurry up and fail before.