An important update on our team (atlassian.com)

Won’t even let em keep their laptop

> 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.

Tech company who messes with browser’s ctrl+f should be outcompeted.

Oh no! Yet another "difficult but right decision" (tm) to self-fund further investment in AI.

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.

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47343156

> 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.

When I see atlassian, I always think of the road to Abilene. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox

> 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.