Not "Atlassian laid off 1,600 people, 10% of its workforce"
But rather: "Atlassian leadership, with 300,000+ paying customers & ~5.2 billion USD in revenue & 6+ billion USD in assets in 2025, failed to line up their financial projections with their own staffing projections, and acted to place the burden of this gap on their direct reports rather than leadership, executive compensation packages, assets, or shareholders"
Layoffs should be personally mortifying. Boards should change.
For shame.

AI Didn’t Simplify Software Engineering: It Just Made Bad Engineering Easier https://robenglander.com/writing/ai-did-not-simplify/
Look on the bright side in a few years there will be good demand for "artisanal" software engineers and specialized IT folks who can fix this AI slop generated code at 1000$ per hour.
Mich fasziniert diese CDU-Methode, unerwünschte Politikwechsel durch Einhornlösungen zu verschleppen.
Man will keine Straßenbahn, also plant man eine Magnetbahn, aber geschehen wird nix, und das Auto bleibt ungestört.
Man will keine Solar- und Windenergie, also plant man Fusionsreaktoren, aber passieren wird nix, die Fossilen bleiben ungestört.
Man will keine E-Autos, also schwatzt man von E-Fuels und Einhornglitzerstaub, ihr erkennt das Muster.