Jira
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
27warn against
Nov 3, 2025first mention
Oct 30, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“If you already use jira, maybe try putting the specs directly in the jira ticket?”
team already has detailed ticketson “Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?…”
“Everyone loves to hate on Jira, but it is a mature platform for managing large projects.”
solo projectson “An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story”
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“For teams >4, Jira with streamlined kanban workflows and minimal bureaucracy.”
Caveats and dissent
“our tickets are still in the nightmare called Jira”
“I now know why everyone hates jira. The cloud version is so much worse”
moved from on-prem to cloud at their companyswitched from Jira on-premon “GitLab Security Incident: Attempted Exploitation of …”
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“After being defiled by Jira in my $dayjob”
Often compared with
2 moved from Jira to LinearConfluence8 comments mention bothGitHub Issues3 comments mention both
2 moved from Jira to GitHub IssuesShortcut2 comments mention both
2 moved from Jira to Shortcut
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Stop Using Conventional Commits 3 mentions
- Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production? 2 mentions
- Almost Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years 2 mentions
- GitHub Incident with Actions, Pages, and Webhooks 1 mention
- GitLab Security Incident: Attempted Exploitation of CVE-2026-97229 1 mention
- Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository 1 mention
Also written as JIRA. Data: jira.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 40
“our tickets are still in the nightmare called Jira”
“I now know why everyone hates jira. The cloud version is so much worse”
“After being defiled by Jira in my $dayjob”
“I use Jira daily for ~8 years, it has become faster in it's own comparison over time.”
“Jira just sucks.”
“JIRA sucks despite having competition because it tries to be everything for everyone.”
“We use for jira, confluence, excel.”
“MCP is still the main way I use Cursor with enterprise systems like Glean, Jira, and Port.”
“Now it's one of the most convuloted tools and it's actually a pain to use.”
“We use Jira as usual”
“It took less than a year for them to start enshittifying their core product.”
“We use Jira for PM -_-”
“I haven't use the Atlassian Jira interface to manage my sprints/issues in 6+ weeks.”
“it had become noticeably slower and had a bunch of UI clutter that made it difficult to do basic tasks”
“like Linear outclasses Jira”
“we replaced our bikeshed with a JIRA board and now we paint tickets instead, somehow it's worse”
“Atlassian is also a bug factory”
“doesn't take a 1GB of ram and slow as molasses”
“the informal workflow I used with agents and Jira at $dayjob”
“I dislike Jira as much as anyone”
“how about we use this thing that looks similar but is not as terrible as Jira?”
“When the organization switched from Jira to GH issues the Jira was kept running for years”
“even on Jira we lose cases as teams end and hand off the code, and the Jira project is closed”
“If you already use jira, maybe try putting the specs directly in the jira ticket?”
“you very quickly become Salesforce or Jira or <insert large confusing product>”
“Fixed, immutable pointers to an Atlassian product that you might not be using in 5 years is not a good policy.”
“I've had the "try out dark mode" tooltip showing on JIRA for months.”
“Using Jira as your source of truth is no different to just recording all your prompts.”
“Everyone loves to hate on Jira, but it is a mature platform for managing large projects.”
“The integration of the two wasn't great so we switched to GitHub issues and kicked Jira to the curb.”
“We use Jira. We're trapped by the processes built around it.”
“Jira buries cross-project dependencies across 4 clicks because it was built around projects as the primary unit, not relationships.”
“whatever lousy project management tool we would use (Notion, ClickUp, Jira etc..)”
“+1 to moving off JIRA.”
“get rid of JIRA immediately”
“For the rest, I use jira because with other things it’s really intuitive.”
“Jira, Microsoft Teams, HP Printers, Ticketmaster, …”
“For teams >4, Jira with streamlined kanban workflows and minimal bureaucracy.”
“JIRA problems: search sucks. "Find similar ticket" sucks.”
“The change log for end users comes from the JIRA board for the release”