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by ccosky 101 days ago
I tested out Atlassian Rovo last year. I tried to get it to list all of the Confluence articles I had written in 2025 so I could use that information for my performance review. It found three, regardless of how I queried it. I had actually written over sixty. I tried, but never did found a good use case for it. Too unreliable.
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I tried to pin my comment. It turned out after we migrated to the cloud version, this option disappeared and the ticket is flooded with commit messages making it essentially useless for humans. Rovo obviously faked a solution:

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-questions/How-to...

Atlassian Rovo is considered utterly dangerous on my team (as we are still encouraged to use it…), the first time I did it erased a whole page - it couldn’t get the most basic instruction correct, would leave out 80% of what I input, respond to corrections with the same problem. It’s just a liability.
Rovo dev cli is pretty good though. Though that may just be because it talks to claude or openai in the backend.
I used it for a while a year or so ago when it was in beta and gave 20M free tokens daily
Rovo is backed by the typical LLM providers in general, Atlassian isn't training its own models.