Is marking a jira ticket ready for testing that complicated? That doesn't seem like something that I both spend a ton of time on while being non productive to want to outsource to AI
Various administrative junk probably takes up about 20% of my actual wall-time as far as the work itself, but contributes enormously more than that to my mental fatigue, task-switching time loss, and general stress level. It subjectively feels like 50% of my job. Interacting with Jira or Azure Devops or Asana or what have you is far from everything, but is a decent chunk of that.
This does tend to be a much bigger problem at bigcos than smaller shops, though.
I am at one of the biggest of bigcos. My entire jira interaction is move the ticket to in progress, comment on it maybe once a day when i make serious progress or get blocked, and then upload a screenshot when I've finished and move to done. I probably spend more time fixing merge conflicts because force-with-lease is blocked at my co than I do with jira
