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During its virtual Unleash event, Atlassian announced the general availability of its generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities across its Jira and Confluence suite of tools for managing IT and DevOps workflows. Additionally, Atlassian committed to adding these capabilities to its Bitbucket continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform, enabling DevOps teams to streamline pull request reviews and automate suggested changes around syntax and code conventions through a natural language interface. Developers will also be able to generate pull request descriptions automatically from commit messages.
Matt Schvimmer, head of products for the Agile and DevOps division at Atlassian, highlighted that the introduction of Atlassian Intelligence aims to reduce the level of toil and stress experienced by DevOps teams amidst the increasing pace of application development and deployment.
Key highlights of Atlassian Intelligence's capabilities include:
Instant creation of user stories within Jira Software tickets Tone adjustment for customer responses within Jira Service Management Summary creation, workflow request launch via prompts, and test plan starting point generation in Confluence.
Furthermore, natural language capabilities, currently available for Confluence, will soon be generally available for Jira as well. Additionally, a beta feature supporting the demystification of company-specific concepts, jargon, or acronyms is already available, with forthcoming support for Jira Software and Jira Service Management.
Matt emphasized the pervasive application of AI across both IT service management (ITSM) and DevOps workflows, foreseeing a reduction in the level of toil for these teams. He acknowledged that while the impact of AI on the required size of IT teams remains unclear, the war for IT and DevOps talent may diminish as managing workflows becomes more accessible, reducing reliance on specialized expertise. However, he stressed the importance of embracing AI from both the bottom up and the top down within organizations to ensure optimal adoption. He recommended that IT teams assess processes ripe for automation by AI and restructure teams accordingly, aiming to leverage machine capabilities to enable staff to deliver more valuable services to the business.