JIRA "Smart" Replies

Working in JIRA I came across a new feature today, “Smart Replies”:

How absolutely ridiculous.

We use written communication in place of talking to each other. Using LLM’s to write those messages for you is the equivalent of having a robot by your side talking instead of you.

This new feature in JIRA is akin to that robot having a button that you can press so it says something. And by “encouraging your team to respond to work more often” we expect people to just push the “speak” button repeatedly. Somehow Atlassian labels this idiocy “collaboration”.

Please let us be close to peak stupid in the LLM/AI era.