Take a look at a Sam's Club or Costco. The Windows PCs from Dell, HP, Lenovo outnumber the Macs 4:1 or more.

I have never seen a shopper testing out the wares.

I think it depends where you are, at least for Costco.

Until you try to leave with your data.

They just announced GA of agentic assignees. It suggests a year or more of maturation. Rovo Dev has already been a thing.

The Java products are almost EOL.

They have already been assigning JAC tickets to Rovo and $TEAM is down.

What else should be done with the surplus headcount?

My point exactly. This implies atlassian is not a healthy growing business, but a stagnant or even shrinking one.

Layoffs have little to do with AI, and more akin to fuel being jettisoned to stay in the air longer.

Must a business grow to be healthy? What about stability and longevity?

Prioritization and workforce realignment. Old hat.

Replacing headcount with technology? Also old hat.

If the cuts ate into the good parts of the business, I will worry. I doubt that happened.

Can someone fix the damn Slack plugin so it stops asking me to turn it on every time someone posts a Jira link? I have dozens of messages from the plugin saying "Got it! Will not ask you again."

Are you making the argument that Atlassian’s products are basically done, no more development needed?

The Java ones have been done since version 6 or so. We’re up to what, 11?

Stagnant, yes. Mature also.

Right! There is more performance to be taken away yet! They're nearly there but plenty is left. Jira can be made "let's go brew coffee and come back" slow if the really tried

It really is slop isn’t it.

You can build an SE or Se/30 on a new PCB with a replacement transparent case and analog board.

I think he is 3d printing a 1/2 size classic Mac chassis for the oi2040 rig

The transparent case from MacEffects is amazing, but almost always out of stock :(

Is this what it feels like to be slapped by an LLM?

All the design hints required for this or any other type of agentic "set it and forget it" development are interesting to me, because they enable the result but also lock in less-than-desirable results that exhibit a miss "like simulating a 2Mhz clock".

What if Agents were hip enough to recognize that they have navigated into a specialized area and need additional hinting? "I'm set up for CP/M development, but what I really need now is Z80 memory management technique. Let me swap my tool head for the low-level Z80 unit..."

We can throw RAGs on the pile and hope the context window includes the relevant tokens, but what if there were pointers instead?

Makes sense for all the people running Ubuntu under emulated RISC-V who want/need to use snaps for package management, I guess?

Since there aren't boards available that can run 25.10, why even bother packaging for that architecture? Why dig trenches for cable that can't be laid?

Makes no sense to me.

Naive, good natured, exploitable. Perfection.