alt Hacker NewsOur entire company is basically ran through Jira. Most processes rely on Jira and certain transitions fire of webhooks for automation.
One of the first things we did when we got access to AI was make a Jira MCP. I try not to touch Jira anymore. I get Claude to just create the Jira issues, write comments, create subtasks, link issues together, etc.
I used to dread having to investigate how to implement something and break it down into tasks because the more granular I broke things down, the more Jira issues I had to create to capture each task. Now I can just write everything up in a file and send an LLM to do all the Jira crap.
This sounds so dystopian. I mean of course it does, we are talking about Jira here, an Atlassian product. But what I mean is the constant plastering over. This is how Jira became so astonishingly bad in the first place. But imagine people plastering over these idiotic tools, Jira, Slack, Confluence with LLMs. And at some point in the future someone gets fed up with having to instruct the LLMs and writes their own tool on top of the LLM, that you use to use Jira. And the stack of crutches continues to grow endlessly, just because some suits have heard some pseudo wisdom at some point in their lives that rewrites are expensive. Well guess what's even more expensive than rewrites ... the mindset to never rewrite. This one will literally destroy the fucking planet with ever higher compute demand and requirement.