The Standup - Jira Bought 2 Browsers???
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Atlassian Acquires Browser Company: Dissecting Enterprise Software and AI Hype
We dissect Atlassian's questionable $610 million purchase of a browser startup, contrasting it with the current debate around AI code generation laziness and data center energy consumption.
Short Summary
- Atlassian, known for universally disliked enterprise tools like Jira and Confluence, acquired Browser Company, creators of the niche browser Arc, for $610 million cash.
- The acquisition signals a pivot to "browsers for work," potentially sacrificing the original user appeal for enterprise integration.
- Speakers debated if AI has lowered coding standards, noting that measuring productivity by lines of code written by AI is fundamentally flawed.
- Concerns were raised regarding the massive, specialized power demands of AI data centers and the ethical implications of relying too heavily on LLMs for complex tasks.
- The broadcast also featured discussions on ordering coffee via SSH and clarifying foundational tools like SCP for file transfer.
This discussion navigates the intersection of aging enterprise software practices, the latest tech acquisition surprises, and the growing pains associated with leveraging large language models in daily development work. Readers will gain perspective on why beloved niche tools often fail after being absorbed by corporate giants and assess the real-world impact of current AI integration trends.
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Top Comments (10)
You forgot to mention that Atlassian, the company that wants to sell you products so that you organize better decided that the best way to search things in Jira was to create a SQL-like DSL that is both less useful and more complex than SQL, not to mention that across their products they have reimplemented markdown parsing *at least 4 times*, and none of those parsers are spec compliant, each has it’s own quirks.
ThePrimeAgen, it's me, your only viewer. Over the years, I've created the illusion that many people were watching you, but it was all me. Now, I will send this message from all of my accounts.
Casey needs to use Jira for a month and I want to see his post mortem discussing the design and performance.
I love how Teej is slowly morphing into Fred Durst
This is the shortest standup I’ve been to all week…
I had a coworker who would botch a rebase daily and then proceed to force push over their remote branch and panic that their work was gone. And every time they would call me over to their desk where I would show them the exact same fix using the reflog and how to rebase properly. Then sometimes they would botch the rebase and force push again immediately... just like zero information absorbed, no matter how gently I explained it they did not stop force pushing before testing their work. Anyway that person has been a senior software engineer at atlassian for some time now, so take from that what you will.
The reason why Atlassian is so successful despite being universally hated is because the people using it are not the people buying it. Remember, dev does not hold the purse strings at large companies
Wait until trash dev finds out that Frito Lays is owned by Pepsi
Casey is so wonderfully, almost tragically innocent :D
The official severance podcast was sponsored by Atlassian.
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Top Comments (10)
You forgot to mention that Atlassian, the company that wants to sell you products so that you organize better decided that the best way to search things in Jira was to create a SQL-like DSL that is both less useful and more complex than SQL, not to mention that across their products they have reimplemented markdown parsing *at least 4 times*, and none of those parsers are spec compliant, each has it’s own quirks.
ThePrimeAgen, it's me, your only viewer. Over the years, I've created the illusion that many people were watching you, but it was all me. Now, I will send this message from all of my accounts.
Casey needs to use Jira for a month and I want to see his post mortem discussing the design and performance.
I love how Teej is slowly morphing into Fred Durst
This is the shortest standup I’ve been to all week…
I had a coworker who would botch a rebase daily and then proceed to force push over their remote branch and panic that their work was gone. And every time they would call me over to their desk where I would show them the exact same fix using the reflog and how to rebase properly. Then sometimes they would botch the rebase and force push again immediately... just like zero information absorbed, no matter how gently I explained it they did not stop force pushing before testing their work. Anyway that person has been a senior software engineer at atlassian for some time now, so take from that what you will.
The reason why Atlassian is so successful despite being universally hated is because the people using it are not the people buying it. Remember, dev does not hold the purse strings at large companies
Wait until trash dev finds out that Frito Lays is owned by Pepsi
Casey is so wonderfully, almost tragically innocent :D
The official severance podcast was sponsored by Atlassian.