Are You Sure Your AI Coding Tools Are Worth It? Tempo Thinks It Can Answer That Question.

Tempo’s new tool promises to tie AI spend to a Jira issue and prove ROI. Here’s where that claim holds up, and where it runs out of road.

Illustration of a winged piggy bank flying through a cloudy sky, captioned "A New Field Type.

We Got a New Field Type. In Other News, Pigs Spotted in the Skies Over Sydney.

Jira just got its first genuinely new field type in over a decade. What formula fields do, six worth building this week, and where they still fall short.

Your Documentation Might be Answering the Wrong Question. Here’s “Why.”

Your Jira already documents itself. The admin screens are a live, accurate, zero-maintenance inventory of every field, scheme, and workflow you have, and any page you write that duplicates them starts rotting the moment you publish. What the config will never tell you is why any of it is there. That gap is the only documentation you were ever actually responsible for, and it’s the one nearly everybody skips.

Did Atlassian Just Admit the Pace Is the Problem?

Atlassian shipped 510 changes to my instance in the first seven months of 2026, three every working day, and four in ten arrived with no date attached. The seasonal release program is the right idea. Here is the distance still to cover.