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I built a Jira bot from my broken laptop because LinkedIn made me feel like I had to

I built a Jira bot from my broken laptop because LinkedIn made me feel like I had to

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I was eating ramen and scrolling LinkedIn when I noticed something. Project managers complaining that engineers never update Jira. Engineers complaining that PMs create tickets with zero context. Both groups agreeing that converting meeting notes into tickets manually is a nightmare. Job posts asking for "Jira automation experience." Everyone nodding. Nobody building anything. I am a college student with zero work experience and a laptop that takes four minutes to open Chrome. So naturally, I decided to build the thing they were all complaining about. The skeleton in the PM and engineer relationship Here is what nobody says out loud: the real problem is not Jira. It is that after every meeting, someone has to do the boring work of translating what was said into structured tickets. PMs don't want to do it. Engineers don't want to do it. It falls into a gap and either gets done badly or not at all. I figured if I could automate even 60% of that, I'd be solving something real. Not a tutor

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