Atlassian recap: Confluence cycle dropped to roughly six weeks

Today's top 13 insights for PM Builders, ranked by relevance from YouTube, X, and LinkedIn.

Atlassian recap: Confluence cycle dropped to roughly six weeks

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Roles aren't converging—they're expanding | Tamar Yehoshua (Atlassian CPO)

Lennys Podcast

Lennys Podcast recapped how Atlassian used AI-assisted workflows across Confluence, Rovoclaw, and Jira, cutting a Confluence feature cycle from about 6 months to 6 weeks and shipping 22 Jira user-facing features in about 10 weeks. PM Ya submitted 26 PRs in one month, while agents helped fix about 14 design bugs per hour, cut test creation from a half day to 10 minutes, and categorize more than 900 pieces of customer-study feedback.

#2 𝕏

Aravind Srinivas shared Matterport in a single prompt on Perplexity Computer using the High Effort setting.

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We Built Grok Bot. Here Are Our 14 Best Bots | Peng Zheng & Lauren Tan

Peter Yang

Peng Zheng and Lauren Tan use Grok Bot as persistent, role-specific agents coordinated through group chats, Figma MCP, Notion, cloud agents, skills, and routines. The 14 highlighted bots include agents that expand one manually created key frame into an end-to-end Figma flow, buy filament, manage a listing whose price was to be lowered by $5 each week if there was no interest, audit bot transcripts, and delegate engineering tasks; Grok Bot’s agent-friendly codebase also permits some pull requests to auto-merge before Tan reads them.

Also covered by: @Peter Yang

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NVIDIA AI congratulated AI at Meta on Muse Realtime Avatar and said it worked with Meta’s team to improve the model’s efficiency so the avatar can keep up with users in conversation.

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Aravind Srinivas recapped running 50–100 workflows on Opus 5.5 over the last few days that previously used Fable 5.1 as the orchestrator, reporting minimal differences. He asked which tasks people still find Fable 5.1 better at than Opus 5.5.

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Garry Tan recommended the AsideAI browser with MCP for agents facing antibot issues, suggesting it run on a spare laptop or computer kept plugged in. He said it lets agents use the user’s real credentials through a real Chromium browser, calling it a “game changer.”

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Michael Klingensmith shared that Azure Functions on runtime v3 in a Linux Consumption plan will stop running September 30, 2026, while in-process support and .NET 8 support end November 10, 2026; Linux Consumption tops out at .NET 9, and .NET 10 requires Flex Consumption. Migrating to isolated worker requires code, package, and runtime-setting changes, and Microsoft recommends using a staging slot to manage the two restarts safely.

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The rise of HI-ICs | Elena Verna (Lovable)

Lennys Podcast

**Lennys Podcast** commented on Elena Verna’s work as a high-impact individual contributor at Lovable, where she uses Lovable and AI to take pricing and packaging from research and analysis through production deployment. Verna reported that 42 of 51 surveyed people managers wanted to return to an IC role; she retained her pay grade after becoming a high-impact IC and has run experiments that cost Lovable many millions of dollars.

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Santiago commented that closed frontier models are generally smarter, but self-hosted open models are capable enough for many applications and can be fine-tuned to run quickly at low cost, outperforming leading frontier models on many problems.

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Sebastian Raschka recapped Ember-1, calling it a great model and an example of his recommended approach to frontier LLM development: start with an existing model and spend a multimillion-dollar budget on post-training.

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Sebastian Raschka commented that knowledge is generally much more efficient to learn during pre-training, while post-training focuses mostly on skills, behavior, and accessing that knowledge. He cautioned that certainty is difficult without ablation studies at that scale.

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Lenny Rachitsky shared a conversation with Molly Graham about why her classic “give away your Legos” career advice no longer applies in an AI world. They discuss delegating to AI versus humans, fears of job displacement, responsibilities AI shouldn’t take on, and grief, loneliness, and burnout in tech.

Also covered by: @Lenny Rachitsky

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Yann LeCun commented that claiming “the domestic robot is here” based on such demos is like saying in 2016 that autonomous cars had arrived after a few minutes of self-driving. He noted that 10 years later, truly autonomous level 5 cars still do not exist.

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