The 10 productivity tools that engineers hate the most: JIRA ranks first in dislike, while Windows comes in at 10th place.

A survey shows that the top ten productivity tools hated by engineers last year include JIRA, AWS, and Windows. What could be the reason? (Background: Is AI replacing engineers in Hsinchu Science Park? Jen-Hsun Huang claims "robots will replace thousands of employees": eight Taiwanese companies are introducing optimization.) (Additional context: AI unicorn Builder.ai is bankrupt! Microsoft, Amazon, etc. have impressive investments, but use outsourced engineers to fake "automatically write apps.") The well-known newsletter The Pragmatic Engineer conducted a survey on the "Top Ten Most Hated Productivity Tools" among 30,000 software engineers worldwide. These services or software were originally supposed to be tools for increasing efficiency, but now they are labeled as slowing down project progress. Let's break it down one by one. Most hated: JIRA Its interface is overly complex, with slow loading speeds, and is used by management to monitor subordinates, forcing engineers to spend time updating tickets instead of coding. Second place: Microsoft Teams Frequent crashes and notification latency disrupt video calls, requiring waiting for the software to "self-repair," which disrupts team communication rhythm. Third place: Confluence Pages load like a marathon, search results are inaccurate, turning the document knowledge base into a maze. Fourth place: Jenkins The interaction of plugins is complex, and upgrading feels like defusing a bomb. The outdated UI design leaves newbies confused. Fifth place: Azure DevOps Code reviews are manageable in small teams, but when facing a large number of PRs, it gets stuck. There is a lack of real-time static analysis, and security scanning relies on plugins. Sixth place: AWS The billing and service interface design has too many layers, and there were incidents of ten years of data disappearing; AI executing commands can sometimes be chaotic. Seventh place: Bitbucket Large repositories load slowly, with too much UI noise. When it crashes, users can only wait for announcements from Atlassian. Eighth place: Xcode Project settings are lengthy, and the CI environment often shows "missing classname for isa key." The same code runs locally but fails in the cloud. Ninth place: GitHub Actions Complex workflows can take as long as 25 minutes, and usage limits often break continuous integration. GitHub officially reminds: developers need to control the merge button. Tenth place: Windows The update time is uncontrollable, and there are occasional compatibility issues after completion; performance declines after long-term use, forcing developers to restart first. After seeing the list, do you agree? Can any engineers share their experiences? Related reports: The first non-human employee on Wall Street! Goldman Sachs hires AI engineer Devin, "work efficiency exceeds four times" and can collaborate with 12,000 developers simultaneously. Elon Musk's DOGE genius engineer Edward Coristine leaves, is Trump's financial reform in vain? 〈The 10 most hated productivity tools by engineers: JIRA tops the hate list, Windows ranks last at 10th〉 This article was first published in BlockTempo, "The Most Influential Blockchain News Media."