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Is this why my wife is constantly complaining that her playlists constantly keep playing the same songs over and over?

There is zero chance this is true.

Spotify’s best dev reporting for stand-up

“As a concrete example, an engineer at Spotify on their morning commute from Slack on their cell phone can tell Claude to fix a bug or add a new feature to the iOS app,” Söderström said.

Cool, so your goal is to replace your senior engineers with AI slop, but it's still generating bugs? Doesn't sound like much of an improvement.

“And once Claude finishes that work, the engineer then gets a new version of the app, pushed to them on Slack on their phone, so that he can then merge it to production, all before they even arrive at the office.”

Translation: Want to work as hard as a sole proprietor but not get paid like one? Great! You can work from your car while dealing with bullshit commuter traffic. Also, if you get into an accident, you can't claim worker's compensation or SDL, because you're not technically on the job, yet! Thanks for being a team player!

Promotes ICE and uses AI. What a company of assholes.

Is that supposed to be impressive? Spotify is among the dumbest, shittiest apps. It's literally just a music library player.

Spotify doesn't exist because it's some genius app. It exists because of legal control. They have no reason to make the app better. Indeed their shitty capitalist motives continue to enshittify the app.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

We can tell

From The Software Quality and Productivity Crisis Executives Won’t Address (via on Lemmy)

Executives aren’t ignorant. They have the data. They commission the surveys. They attend the conferences where CTOs present their concerns. They know that:

• 91% of CTOs cite technical debt as the biggest challenge
• 75% of projects are expected to fail
• 69% of developers lose significant time to inefficiencies
• Only 39% of projects meet success criteria
• The recommended 15–20% investment in technical debt management yields better long-term returns than crisis spending

Yet they choose:

• Not to allocate recommended budgets for technical debt management
• Not to make quality a strategic priority despite CTOs’ and developers’ concerns
• Not to mention these challenges in public communications to shareholders
• To celebrate AI productivity gains whilst developers report record inefficiency
• To focus on the next hype cycle (AI) rather than address fundamental problems

This isn’t a failure of knowledge. It looks to me like a failure of courage and integrity. A failure of the very concept of leadership.

Do you know what we call someone that doesn't write a single line of code?

Anything other than a "developer".

Their best developers.

The worst ones are still there checking the vibe coded garbage.

Spotify's functions have not changed a bit since 2016. It is literally the same application, what has changed are the tiny things they're doing for compatibility but that is not really worth mentioning. Intentionally leaving UX out.

Honestly what code is there to write for this glorified web browser? They're probably also outsourcing most of their data collection and recommendation algorithms.

Buy physical media, rip CDs, share shit and that's it

Has Spotify had any new code written?

This sounds like such a fucking nightmare. I got into software because I like writing code. Their job is now the equivalent of a full time PR reviewer.

How is that still a reason to brag about

They wheren't been coding anything even before AI

Hm. A new way to tell something is shit without actually using these words

Bullshit

That's why it keeps telling me I'm offline while having an active WiFi and 5G connection of which both work and no other apps have any issues with the internet.

Glad i moved away from Spotify a year ago. Happy to ve using Qobuz and bandcamp

I'm pretty sure the only way this is true, is if they qualify their best developers as the developers who use AI the most and by absolutely no metric which would indicate this is actually good code.

The same company who got their whole DB of songs leaked?

How many lines of code have they had to fix thanks to AI?

Is fixing all those AI written lines of code not counted as writing line of code?

Yeah they're gonna need to save all the money they can because everyone I know is cancelling their subs to basically every service, from Amazon to Spotify to Crunchyroll to Netflix.

These fucking companies think they can do whatever they want and we'll just roll over and take it and continue to give them cash every month.

I haven't worked in the industry before, but I have always assumed the "best developer" reviews code and architects the project, thus they write a minimal amount of code pre-AI anyway...

Never used it.

Started self-hosting Navidrome.

Never gonna use it.

Explains a lot

Good thing Anna's Archive exists and just keeps getting better.

Always the fucking suits.

Why would anyone think this is a good thing? You're actively telling the world that your product is likely full of bugs and hard to maintain.

They ate lying without a question.

Reads as: we here at Spotify are a bunch of naive and gullible halfwits who have diluted themselves into being proud of it.

thumbs up the suspenders, belly proudly hanging over the belt and gently rolling the feet from heel to toe