I was hoping somebody at some point would create an agent for interacting with jira so I could minimize my interaction with its horrendous UI.

Nothing fancy, just a bot that can answer questions about tickets and create and edit tickets based upon a haphazard slack conversation. It's an ideal use case for generative AI, but for some reason nobody wants to do this because they're too busy getting genai to write unit tests or cite court cases something else that is highly inappropriate.