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I got a degree from Douglas College in programming and business management. I understood the business side more and was better at that than at being a coder.

In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door to protest the sale of salvation. The Catholic Church had turned faith into a transaction: Pay for indulgences, reduce your time in purgatory. Luther's message was plain: You could be saved through faith alone, you didn't need the church to interpret scripture for you, and every believer could approach God directly.

One of the challenges teams face when working with large boards or displaying multiple fields on work item cards is limited screen space. This became even more noticeable with the rollout of the New Boards hub, which introduced additional spacing and padding for improved readability. While this enhances clarity, it can also reduce the number of cards visible at once.

CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes used the company's Thursday earnings call to reveal Atlassian now has five million users of its Rovo agentic AI offering and suggested that investors in the company might worry that costs would blow out as a result. "We're able to deliver those five million Rovo seats and continue to improve gross margin," he reassured. "That's a huge achievement on behalf of our engineering teams, but it shows that we can manage those AI costs inside for the vast majority of customers."

The real cost of poor observability isn't just downtime; it's lost trust, wasted engineering hours, and the strain of constant firefighting. But most teams are still working across fragmented monitoring tools, juggling endless alerts, dashboards, and escalation systems that barely talk to one another, which acts like chaos disguised as control. The result is alert storms without context, slow incident response times, and engineers burned out from reacting instead of improving.

"I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue."