---
title: "Making Claude Chop My Jira Backlog Vegetables"
description: "David Achée describes using Claude to investigate Jira tickets and open 28 pull requests. The backlog’s real scarcity is deciding what not to do."
author: "Pau Friedman"
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published_at: "2025-09-12"
url: "https://pau.fm/blog/2025/09/12/making-claude-chop-my-jira-backlog-vegetables"
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# [Making Claude Chop My Jira Backlog Vegetables](<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/making-claude-chop-my-jira-backlog-vegetables-david-achee-znvfe/>)

People do not hate chopping backlog vegetables. They hate eating them.

A backlog is painful because it records more commitments than the team intends to honor, not because
root-cause analysis is clerical work. Claude can investigate tickets and open pull requests, which
is useful, but it cannot decide whether the product deserves a feature or whether a bug is worth
fixing. Automating the queue does not remove the scarce work. It makes deciding what not to do more
important.