Atlassian is well positioned to release a coding agent. If they leverage the integration with the rest of their cloud ecosystem it could turn out to be a very cohesive dev loop.

I've admittedly not reached for Rovo much in Jira but this could be appealing - have explored using LLMs as a way to jump-start tickets (almost providing boilerplate for the developer to use). Could potentially be a happy medium between when compared to the hands off nature of what Microsoft is doing with Copilot Agents

Agreed. It does feel like a nice middle ground, where you're still in control, but with enough automation to speed things up without making it feel like a black box. Especially if you've already been experimenting with LLMs for boilerplate, this seems like a natural next step to try.