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"To start, you can choose from Integrations for 10 popular services, including Atlassian’s Jira and Confluence, Zapier, Cloudflare, Intercom, Asana, Square, Sen

"To start, you can choose from Integrations for 10 popular services, including Atlassian’s Jira and Confluence, Zapier, Cloudflare, Intercom, Asana, Square, Sentry, PayPal, Linear, and Plaid. ... Each integration drastically expands what Claude can do." Give us an LLM with better reasoning capabilities, please! All this other stuff just feels like a distraction.

Centigonal 1y ago
Building integrations is a more predictable way of developing a smaller competitive advantage versus research. I think most of the leading AI companies are adopting a multi-arm strategy of research + product/ecosystem development to balance their risks.
atonse 1y ago
I disagree. They can walk and chew gum, do both things at once. And this practical stuff is very important. I've been using the Atlassian MCP for nearly a month now, and it's completely changed (and eliminated) the feeling of having an overwhelming backlog. I can have it do things like "find all the tickets related to profile editing and combine them into one epic" where it works perfectly. Or "help me prioritize the 15 tickets assigned to me this sprint" and it'll actually go through and suggest "maybe you can do these two tickets first since they seem smaller, then do this big one" – i haven't hooked it up to my calendar yet. But I'd love for it to suggest things like "do this one ticket that requires a lot of heads down time on wednesday since you don't have any meetings. I can create a block on your calendar so that nobody will schedule a meeting then" Those are all superhuman things that can be done with MCP and a smart model. I've defined rules in cursor that say "when I ask you to mark something ready for test, change the status and assign it to <x person>, and leave a comment summarizing the changes" If you look at my JIRA comments now, you'd wonder how I had so much time to write such thorough comments. I don't, Cursor and whatever model is doing it for me. It's been an absolute game changer. MCP is going to be what the App store was to mobile. Yes you can get by without it, but actually hooking into all your daily tool is when this stuff gets insanely valuable in a practical sense.
- OJFord 1y ago
  > If you look at my JIRA comments now, you'd wonder how I had so much time to write such thorough comments. I don't, Cursor and whatever model is doing it for me. How do your colleagues feel about it?
  - warkdarrior 1y ago
    My colleagues' LLM assistants think that my LLM assistant leaves great JIRA comments.
    - atonse 1y ago
      haha! Funny enough I do have to tell the LLMs to leave concise comments. I also don’t want to read too many unnecessary words.
      - sdesol 1y ago
        Joking aside, I do believe we are moving into a era where we have LLMs write for each other and humans have a dedicated TL;DR. This includes code with a lot of comments or design styles that might seem obvious or stupid but can help another LLM.
    - eknkc 1y ago
      Why use JIRA at this point then? Can’t we point an LLM to a sqlite db and tell it to treat it as an issue tracking db and have everyone do the same. The service (jira) would materialize inside the LLMs then. Why even use abstractions like tickets etc. Ask LLM what to do.
      - zoogeny 1y ago
        JIRA is more than just ticket management for most big orgs. It provides a reporting interface for business with long-term planning capabilities. A lot of the annoying things that devs have to do in JIRA is often there to make those functions more valuable. In other cases it is a compliance thing as well. Some certifications necessary for enterprise sales require audit trails for all code changes, from the bug report to the code commit. JIRA provides the integration and reporting necessary for that. Unless you can provide the same visibility, long-term planning features and compliance aspects of JIRA on top of you sqlite db, you won't compete with JIRA. But if you do add those things on top of SQLite and LLMs, you probably have a solid business idea. But you'd first need to understand JIRA well enough to know why they are there in the first place.

Centigonal 1y ago

Building integrations is a more predictable way of developing a smaller competitive advantage versus research. I think most of the leading AI companies are adopting a multi-arm strategy of research + product/ecosystem development to balance their risks.

atonse 1y ago

I disagree. They can walk and chew gum, do both things at once. And this practical stuff is very important. I've been using the Atlassian MCP for nearly a month now, and it's completely changed (and eliminated) the feeling of having an overwhelming backlog. I can have it do things like "find all the tickets related to profile editing and combine them into one epic" where it works perfectly. Or "help me prioritize the 15 tickets assigned to me this sprint" and it'll actually go through and suggest "maybe you can do these two tickets first since they seem smaller, then do this big one" – i haven't hooked it up to my calendar yet. But I'd love for it to suggest things like "do this one ticket that requires a lot of heads down time on wednesday since you don't have any meetings. I can create a block on your calendar so that nobody will schedule a meeting then" Those are all superhuman things that can be done with MCP and a smart model. I've defined rules in cursor that say "when I ask you to mark something ready for test, change the status and assign it to <x person>, and leave a comment summarizing the changes" If you look at my JIRA comments now, you'd wonder how I had so much time to write such thorough comments. I don't, Cursor and whatever model is doing it for me. It's been an absolute game changer. MCP is going to be what the App store was to mobile. Yes you can get by without it, but actually hooking into all your daily tool is when this stuff gets insanely valuable in a practical sense.

OJFord 1y ago
> If you look at my JIRA comments now, you'd wonder how I had so much time to write such thorough comments. I don't, Cursor and whatever model is doing it for me. How do your colleagues feel about it?
- warkdarrior 1y ago
  My colleagues' LLM assistants think that my LLM assistant leaves great JIRA comments.
  - atonse 1y ago
    haha! Funny enough I do have to tell the LLMs to leave concise comments. I also don’t want to read too many unnecessary words.
    - sdesol 1y ago
      Joking aside, I do believe we are moving into a era where we have LLMs write for each other and humans have a dedicated TL;DR. This includes code with a lot of comments or design styles that might seem obvious or stupid but can help another LLM.
  - eknkc 1y ago
    Why use JIRA at this point then? Can’t we point an LLM to a sqlite db and tell it to treat it as an issue tracking db and have everyone do the same. The service (jira) would materialize inside the LLMs then. Why even use abstractions like tickets etc. Ask LLM what to do.
    - zoogeny 1y ago
      JIRA is more than just ticket management for most big orgs. It provides a reporting interface for business with long-term planning capabilities. A lot of the annoying things that devs have to do in JIRA is often there to make those functions more valuable. In other cases it is a compliance thing as well. Some certifications necessary for enterprise sales require audit trails for all code changes, from the bug report to the code commit. JIRA provides the integration and reporting necessary for that. Unless you can provide the same visibility, long-term planning features and compliance aspects of JIRA on top of you sqlite db, you won't compete with JIRA. But if you do add those things on top of SQLite and LLMs, you probably have a solid business idea. But you'd first need to understand JIRA well enough to know why they are there in the first place.