- At least the stock went up two bucks after the announcement, $75 -> $77:
https://www.google.com/search?q=atlassian+stock&rlz=1C5GCEM_...
Way to go, $TEAM.
- > We are doing this to self-fund further investment in AI and enterprise sales while strengthening our financial profile.
Some quotes from the video:
> ...at the same time, we're a people company.
> Your work will live on in our products.
> Doing the right thing for Atlassian while acting with humanity and doing the right thing for all those on all sides of this set of decisions.
Wow. There's a lot to unpack here.
by joeyguerra
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- When I see atlassian, I always think of the road to Abilene. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox
by lucketone
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- Tech company who messes with browser’s ctrl+f should be outcompeted.
- > We are doing this to self-fund further investment in AI and enterprise sales, while strengthening our financial profile.
> Our approach is not “AI replaces people”.
So I guess we’re only one step away from Andors “They don’t even bother to lie to us badly” given how bald faced this lie is.
- Won’t even let em keep their laptop
- > Our approach is not “AI replaces people”.
> But [..] AI does[..] change the [..] number of roles required in certain areas.
I can't believe how little this is paraphrasing it.
by Trasmatta
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- > We are doing this to self-fund further investment in AI and enterprise sales, while strengthening our financial profile.
I'm sure it's such a relief to the humans being fired that their salaries will be used for AI and enterprise sales.
by ChrisArchitect
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- Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47343156
by Postosuchus
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- Oh no! Yet another "difficult but right decision" (tm) to self-fund further investment in AI.
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