All too often when it comes to AI, enterprises get stuck in a sort of experimentation limbo as deploying AI tools that deliver tangible ROI continues to be a struggle.
Atlassian aims to get them over that hurdle with its definitive agreement to acquire DX, an analytics platform that helps enterprises track their engineering teams’ performance and identify bottlenecks in development and deployment.
The acquisition will allow Atlassian to offer an all-in-one platform with integrated collaboration, project management, and developer productivity measurement tools to help enterprises move from AI testing to deployment.
“What a lot of leaders are saying is, the time for experimenting has passed,” Thomas Randall, research director at Info-Tech Research Group, told Computerworld. “It’s time to now actually put together the solid business case, and greater observability helps.”
Augmenting Atlassian’s ‘System of Work’ strategy
The DX platform was developed to help engineering leaders measure, benchmark, and improve developer productivity. Its tools will fit into Atlassian’s “System of Work” platform, which is designed to speed up processes by connecting business, service, product, leadership, and software teams across an enterprise.
According to the company, DX’s integration into Atlassian’s software development lifecycle (SDLC) will help customers measure AI adoption and impact, pinpoint and address bottlenecks, and gain visibility into developer experience, productivity and system health.
Atlassian has been investing significantly in the software space, with new offerings in Bitbucket Pipelines and Rovo Dev augmenting its Jira, Bitbucket, and Compass tools. The company is also staking a claim in the nascent AI-browser space with an acquisition of The Browser Company of New York.
“For any technology-driven organization, software teams are pivotal for your continued success,” Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian CEO and co-founder, said in a YouTube video accompanying the DX acquisition announcement. “These teams are at a critical moment. AI is transforming how software teams work. This creates both incredible potential, and a whole new set of questions.”
Atlassian has 300,000-plus global customers, and a significant portion of DX’s customers, including Dell, BNY, Chime, Pinterest, GoodRX, Etsy, Vanguard, Pfizer, and Docker, already use Atlassian products.
“By joining forces, Atlassian and DX will help hundreds of thousands of software teams amplify their impact,” said Cannon-Brookes.
Providing insight into friction points, developer satisfaction
Organizations still struggle to pinpoint use cases for AI in their internal workflows and products, Info-Tech’s Randall noted.
“It’s been a bit more of throwing a lot of things at various pieces, or bottom up approaches from departments trying out different things,” he said. “A lot of time and money has been lost because too many projects and tests are going on.”
The integration of DX into Atlassian’s platform will offer observability and context, so teams aren’t just getting caught up in endless testing and experimenting loops, he said. “The core benefit is far greater visibility into where their work is slowing down. They can figure out which investments are actually working, which are having weaker impact.”
For instance, they can gain insight into code reviews or test delays. Many software teams are also adopting code assistants and automated testing tools, which DX can benchmark, Randall noted. They can also use it to gauge developer satisfaction and friction points, allowing them to set norms around measuring progress, and identify best practices and new opportunities for automation.
“It will help reduce technical debt by improving flow, lowering cycle times, reducing delays, expediting incident resolutions and risk management,” said Randall.
A ‘nice perk’ for existing Atlassian customers
The integration is a “nice perk” and “value add” for Atlassian customers, Randall contended. The company can now offer a “comprehensive package” featuring build and run software, matrix and feedback loops.
Enterprises must always be mindful about execution, he emphasized. How well will this integrate into their change management, such as by convincing engineering teams to adopt certain metrics? These tools surveil behavior, so it’s important to consider developer personas and identify what will motivate them and help them do their best work, he pointed out.
With any AI project, enterprise leaders should consider their core business goals, and objectives and key results (OKRs), then determine how AI tools can support them, rather than just adopting AI for the sake of it, said Randall.
“Because,” he noted, “a lot of the time it’s, ‘do you even need AI for that? This could just be straightforward automation with a rules-based system.’”
A new NYT Wordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Friday’s puzzle instead then click here.
It’s time for your guide to today’s Wordle answer, featuring my commentary on the latest puzzle, plus a selection of hints designed to help you keep your streak going.
Don’t think you need any clues for Wordle today? No problem, just skip to my daily column. But remember: failure in this game is only ever six guesses away.
Want more word-based fun? TechRadar’s Quordle today page contains hints and answers for that game, and you can also take a look at our NYT Strands today and NYT Connections today pages for our verdict on two of the New York Times’ other brainteasers.
SPOILER WARNING: Today’s Wordle answer and hints are below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to see them.
Wordle hints (game #1554) – clue #1 – Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
• Wordle today has vowels in two places*.
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).
Wordle hints (game #1554) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is D.
D is the ninth most common starting letter in the game, so maybe slightly less likely than you might expect.
Repeated letters are quite common in the game, with 748 of the 2,309 Wordle answers containing one. However, it’s still more likely that a Wordle doesn’t have one.
Wordle hints (game #1554) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is R.
R is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – it’s actually the 4th most common there, behind E, Y and T.
Wordle hints (game #1554) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1554.
Today’s Wordle answer is to delay.
If you just want to know today’s Wordle answer now, simply scroll down – but I’d always recommend trying to solve it on your own first. We’ve got lots of Wordle tips and tricks to help you, including a guide to the best Wordle start words.
If you don’t want to know today’s answer then DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER BECAUSE IT IS PRINTED BELOW. So don’t say you weren’t warned!
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1554)
(Image credit: New York Times)
NYT average score: 4.4
My score: 3
WordleBot’s score: 4
My skill score: 97
My luck score: 67
My start word performance: DODGY (53 remaining answers)
WordleBot’s start word performance: SLATE (329)
Tomorrow’s start word: BEECH
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1554) is… DEFER.
As with yesterday’s game, today’s ends in an ER – but that’s about where the similarities end. DEFER is a far, far tougher Wordle than LATER; in fact, it’s around a whole guess tougher, with an average score of 4.4 compared to 3.5.
The repeated E is part of the problem, but not the only complication. The F in the middle is also a relatively uncommon letter, at least when it’s not at the start of a word, and though D is pretty common it’s not up there with the L and T that appear in LATER.
The similarly spelled REFER and DETER may also have caused problems, and possibly the likes of FEVER and FEWER too; it’s not a surprise that it has a high average.
And with all that in mind I’m delighted to have scored a three, albeit with a big helping hand from my opening guess.
That word was DODGY – yet another one that contains a repeated letter, which I was not happy about when I saw it; that’s the third one in a row. But it gave me a green D at the start, ruled out the common letter O and the middling letters G and Y, and left only 53 options.
I was almost certain that the D would be followed by an R or one of the remaining vowels – DW was the only other possibility, but there are only three of those among the original 2,309 solutions. So with that in mind, I wanted a word that contained an R, plus two of A, I or E.
I didn’t need to play the D again, so it made sense to put another common letter before the R; T and C would both work, so I went with the first of those then added A, I and N to make TRAIN, itself a popular start word.
The R didn’t turn yellow, and neither did anything else – in fact no other letters were present at all, which seemed like a poor result. However on examining the board I could only find two options: DEFER and DEMUR.
I had a straight choice, then, and decided the former was a slightly more likely solution than the latter (though I imagine DEMUR is an answer too). Much to my delight, I was correct – and beat WordleBot as a bonus.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1553)
In a different time zone where it’s still Friday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1553, too.
Wordle yesterday had vowels in two places.
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).
The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was L.
L is a surprisingly uncommon starting letter in Wordle. Despite being the sixth most common letter overall, it’s only ranked 12th at the beginning of a word.
There were no repeated letters in yesterday’s Wordle.
Repeated letters are quite common in the game, with 748 of the 2,309 Wordle answers containing one. However, it’s still more likely that a Wordle doesn’t have one.
The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was R.
R is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – it’s actually the 4th most common there, behind E, Y and T.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1553.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer is not now.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1553)
(Image credit: New York Times)
NYT average score: 3.5
My score: 2
WordleBot’s score: 3
My skill score: 91
My luck score: 74
My start word performance: GRUFF (542 remaining answers)
LATER is a great Wordle word. Not only does it contain five of the top 10 letters by frequency – numbers one, two, three, five and six in fact, with O the only one of the top five not included – but the majority of them are also in either their most common or second-most common position, too. Oh, and it also covers off the ER-trap possibility.
That’s the reason why I regularly use it as a second guess in this game – in fact, I’ve played it second up five or six times in the past month.
I say this as a justification for the fact that I scored an extremely unlikely and suspicious-looking two.
My opening GRUFF was less-than helpful, leaving 542 options and giving me only a yellow R to go on – but a yellow R without an E having been played always suggests that an ER word might be a possibility, and so I duly turned to LATER.
And it was right. Hurrah!
Plenty of other people will have joined me with a two, or a three at worst, because SLATE left only seven possible answers. In fact, some will have scored a one – because LATER is itself a start word for some.
That’s probably playing a big part in the ultra-low average of 3.4 here; it’s been an easy month in general, but LATER is among the easiest even in that company. I’d be surprised if anyone lost their streak.
Will I still keep playing LATER as a start word? Maybe, maybe not. It will depend on how the letters fall, of course, but maybe I’ll turn more often to SANER, another good second word and one that has not yet been a solution.
Wordle answers: The past 50
I’ve been playing Wordle every day for more than three years now and have tracked all of the previous answers so I can help you improve your game. Here are the last 50 solutions starting with yesterday’s answer, or check out my past Wordle answers page for the full list.
Wordle #1553, Friday 19 September: LATER
Wordle #1552, Thursday 18 September: KNIFE
Wordle #1551, Wednesday 17 September: TEETH
Wordle #1550, Tuesday 16 September: LEFTY
Wordle #1549, Monday 15 September: ALONG
Wordle #1548, Sunday 14 September: NOISY
Wordle #1547, Saturday 13 September: NADIR
Wordle #1546, Friday 12 September: THROB
Wordle #1545, Thursday 11 September: CHAIR
Wordle #1544, Wednesday 10 September: POUTY
Wordle #1543, Tuesday 9 September: TRICK
Wordle #1542, Monday 8 September: CHIRP
Wordle #1541, Sunday 7 September: TENOR
Wordle #1540, Saturday 6 September: BULGE
Wordle #1539, Friday 5 September: DRIFT
Wordle #1538, Thursday 4 September: BLEND
Wordle #1537, Wednesday 3 September: FETCH
Wordle #1536, Tuesday 2 September: MIGHT
Wordle #1535, Monday 1 September: LEAST
Wordle #1534, Sunday 31 August: PETAL
Wordle #1533, Saturday 30 August: ELATE
Wordle #1532, Friday 29 August: GRAFT
Wordle #1531, Thursday 28 August: SPLIT
Wordle #1530, Wednesday 27 August: TOWER
Wordle #1529, Tuesday 26 August: ANNEX
Wordle #1528, Monday 25 August: MIRTH
Wordle #1527, Sunday 24 August: SPORE
Wordle #1526, Saturday 23 August: UNION
Wordle #1525, Friday 22 August: RATTY
Wordle #1524, Thursday 21 August: EXTOL
Wordle #1523, Wednesday 20 August: LLAMA
Wordle #1522, Tuesday 19 August: ROWDY
Wordle #1521, Monday 18 August: ISSUE
Wordle #1520, Sunday 17 August: LOUSY
Wordle #1519, Saturday 16 August: MATTE
Wordle #1518, Friday 15 August: LEVEL
Wordle #1517, Thursday 14 August: KNELL
Wordle #1516, Wednesday 13 August: KEFIR
Wordle #1515, Tuesday 12 August: NOMAD
Wordle #1514, Monday 11 August: SOUTH
Wordle #1513, Sunday 10 August: MINTY
Wordle #1512, Saturday 9 August: NASAL
Wordle #1511, Friday 8 August: IMBUE
Wordle #1510, Thursday 7 August: CORAL
Wordle #1509, Wednesday 6 August: GROAN
Wordle #1508, Tuesday 5 August: STORK
Wordle #1507, Monday 4 August: RIGID
Wordle #1506, Sunday 3 August: LUMPY
Wordle #1505, Saturday 2 August: DAUNT
Wordle #1504, Friday 1 August: BANJO
What is Wordle?
If you’re on this page then you almost certainly know what Wordle is already, and indeed have probably been playing it for a while. And even if you’ve not been playing it, you must surely have heard of it by now, because it’s the viral word game phenomenon that took the world by storm in 2022 and is still going strong in 2025.
We’ve got a full guide to the game in our What is Wordle page, but if you just want a refresher then here are the basics.
What is Wordle?
Wordle challenges you to guess a new five-letter word each day. You get six guesses, with each one revealing a little more information. If one of the letters in your guess is in the answer and in the right place, it turns green. If it’s in the answer but in the wrong place, it turns yellow. And if it’s not in the answer at all it turns gray. Simple, eh?
It’s played online via the Wordle website or the New York Times’ Games app (iOS / Android), and is entirely free.
Crucially, the answer is the same for everyone each day, meaning that you’re competing against the rest of the world, rather than just against yourself or the game. The puzzle then resets each day at midnight in your local time, giving you a new challenge, and the chance to extend your streak.
What are the Wordle rules?
The rules of Wordle are pretty straightforward, but with a couple of curveballs thrown in for good measure.
1. Letters that are in the answer and in the right place turn green.
2. Letters that are in the answer but in the wrong place turn yellow.
3. Letters that are not in the answer turn gray.
4. Answers are never plural.
4b… Unless they are. There have been a couple of plural words that don’t end in an S, including FUNGI (game #439) and ATRIA (#1478)
5. Letters can appear more than once. So if your guess includes two of one letter, they may both turn yellow, both turn green, or one could be yellow and the other green.
6. Each guess must be a valid word in Wordle’s dictionary. You can’t guess ABCDE, for instance.
7. You do not have to include correct letters in subsequent guesses unless you play on Hard mode.
8. You have six guesses to solve the Wordle.
9. You must complete the daily Wordle before midnight in your timezone.
10. All answers are drawn from Wordle’s list of 2,309 solutions. However…
11. Wordle will accept a wider pool of words as guesses – some 10,000 of them. For instance, you can guess a plural such as WORDS. It definitely won’t be right (see point 4 above), but Wordle will accept it as a guess.
12. The NYT has added in some of its own words which weren’t in that list of 2,309 solutions. More will undoubtedly come over the next few years.
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