I had a similar experience a while back when a VP suggested I somehow 'implement the blockchain' ... in our entire SQL database system.

I literally head-desked, buried my head into my hands in that meeting, and just said No, you really really don't want to do that.

These people are fucking idiots, like actively, aggressively morons.

They only thing they are good at is being corpo social butterflies, they have no idea how anything actually works.

In a sane, meritocratic world, they'd lose their jobs.

But we live in an insane, nepotistic caste system that just loudly pretends it is meritocratic, so, don't be surprised when the inbred 'nobility' routinely produce abominations.

as they keep firing people to the point that none of the competent people I got to know over the years works there anymore, it’s only new joiners or incompetents left

So many companies these days are run entirely by burnt out competent people and well-meaning but entirely untrained new joiners that I'm surprised more haven't imploded yet.

This is pretty good stuff.

I would pay money to see the McDonald's CEO eat an entire McDonald's burger product in a single sitting with zero camera cuts.

collapsible fields doesn't improve shareholder value

Sorry, best we can do is rename tasks to work items.

Who needs to find tickets when you have Rovo!

Wait, you’re saying you do not log in just to use it? What’s wrong with you, the shareholders specifically requested it. They’re never wrong.

Every time they add the feature, half of the product breaks. The other half start using twice as much memory and compute, somehow.

They've got a pile of technical debt disguised as a product and the development velocity of the snail as a consequence. Very typical. The real question is "why hasn't the competition eaten their lunch already".

Atlassian is on the chopping block with the robots getting as good as they are at writing code. It wouldn't surprise me if we'll start seeing self-hosted clones that actually work and drop all of the shit complexity that most people don't use but Atlassian built to land specific customers. So much fucking bloat in software and core features being changed or ignored is due explicitly to this. The larger customers (by ARR) dictate the bounds of the product even if they are a tiny fraction of the actual user base. At work we're already throwing away a shitty case management system that exists purely to employ people like the little kids at the front of the train in Snowpiercer. We'll save 6-7 figures in annual licensing, and the team of specialists hired to work in this shitty system are already being migrated to other work. The Saaspocalypse is totally gonna be a thing.

Not making their product better is the one thing. Atlassian is actively making them worse.

Very very rarely emailing executives can get stuff fixed, amazing when it works though

Oh yee CEOs who lack the visibility they need…

Here’s a 12 year old bug asking them to stop corrupting user entered comments by turning them into cutesy emoji.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-39164

They DGAF about actual users.

Sounds painful

I heard there was a person hired specifically to keep Elon away from the critical areas so he doesn't try to overrule a decision and destroy the company.

In fairness, the Falcon 9 / Dragon capsule systems are solid and reliable, with good track records.

So its not literally all SpaceX stuff.

But... yeah, the Starship/HeavyBooster is what happens when Elon is in charge, utter shit show.

And also, the Falcon 9 family never actually got close to the cost reductions Elon initially said would be delivered by the re-usability paradigm.

It would have to be roughly an order of magnitude less expensive, for a ton to orbit, than what it currently is, to match what he said it would achieve.

as 18107 says, yeah, at various Musk companies, their have been people whose main job was primarily to distract him from getting involved very directly, but this has apparently stopped being a thing.

Just go find the conversation he had with some of the high ups on the Twitter team, when he took it over.

He just knows buzzwords, beyond that, probably most of the people in this thread are more intelligent than he is, on literally any subject... he has no idea how anything works beyond a very big picture / conceptual level.

Still faster than using the "search" function.

That's the plan. They have so much put into copilot and no one is willing to use it. I wouldn't be surprised if they fucked over search to make it happen, but outlook search has always been an unusable POS

Yah, I had a similar thought regarding Google and the SEO which changed recipes into page long stories about the author's grandmother. Instead of wading through all the text to find the ingredients, just use ai.