Their best developers.
The worst ones are still there checking the vibe coded garbage.
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How many lines of code have they had to fix thanks to AI?
That's a problem for the future team, not the current bosses who will give themselves golden parachutes.
We can tell
LOL. Exactly. This reminds me of a slop code change my manager recently posted. It was a million lines, where really it just needed to be like 3 or 4 lines. I refuse to do a real review for slop PRs.
Later in standup he proudly proclaims, "You know, that PR was mostly Claude." ... ... ...
I know! It was bad! You should feel bad! The fact that he was proud of it showed he doesn't know what the hell he's doing. More lines of code means higher performance, right?? 😂
Always the fucking suits.
They ate lying without a question.
Hm. A new way to tell something is shit without actually using these words
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
Find a musician you like. Buy their music on Bandcamp. Download as FLAC.
You are wrong on many points IMO.
I've been using it for nearly a decade, it's changed a lot.
I don't know why you'd be leaving ux out.
What code is there to write? You must be trolling come on now.
I’ve been using it for nearly a decade, it’s changed a lot.
Same. I just simply don't agree. If you consider tiny features not a soul needs like yearly reviews of one's listening habits and the roll out of podcasts as things worth mentioning, ok, they were not exactly doing anything radically new at that point anyway.
I don’t know why you’d be leaving ux out.
Because UX 90% adds nothing and chiefly serves to suggest innovation.
You must be trolling come on now.
I am. I want Spotify employees to read this and get steamingly mad. They are complicit in ruining music.
+edited for formatting
Like a lot of these big, consolidated, years long projects, the real work is maintenance. The rest is just a bunch of people desperately trying to improve obscure KPIs by 1%.
Mark Fisher's idea of market stalinism comes to mind
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.
Notifications don't even work for most of my saved podcasts.
Good thing Anna's Archive exists and just keeps getting better.
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
Deluded*
Ah man, in my mind I was definitely thinking of some weird sci-fi experiment that has developers in giant test tubes with liquid…
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.
I don't review that shit. Those PRs tend to be huge walls of text. If you didn't take any effort into preparing something for me, then I'm not making any effort into reviewing it for you.
Let the slop flow! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
When it breaks, I'm also not jumping in to fix it.
PR reviewer but the dev was drunk, sometimes is a genius, sometimes is eating sand, doesn't follow guidelines, likes to duplicate code, and forgets what was in the original task description after a while.
And even if you babysit it and carefully tell it all the mistakes, it will learn nothing and suggest the same stupid mistakes next tim. I did actually know a human just like AI and he kept his job for years before quitting to grift another company because management refused to believe he sucked. So I'm not optimistic about AI screwing up discouraging business leaders.
So glad I dropped Spotify and moved to Deezer.
Do you know what we call someone that doesn't write a single line of code?
Anything other than a "developer".
A manager. This tool is for what managers think software development is: managing the production of code. From that perspective this hype makes a lot of sense, just turn all your current developers into managers with AI and you now have grown the team by 10x. You can go back in time and find many jokes about how adding more developers doesn't speed up delivery but slows it down. I don't see how AI would suddenly make that less true, especially since the AI is not accountable for its results, you are.
Lmao, exactly. If you're not writing the code you're not the developer, the AI is the developer. Youre just another asshole who gets paid to do nothing.
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.
Or even to true believers, they can just vibe code up just as good of an app.
It basically declares point blank that the technology does not matter, it's their marketing and music rights only that matter.
Bullshit
This is spotify. It's just a music player. The overwhelming bulk of the code was probably written like 20 years ago by a 15 year old.
It's quite possible they already fired their best developers
Look at the feature list bragged about. It's really simple stuff. I can absolutely believe they vibe coded that stuff.
The "hardest" one was to feed listener history to an LLM and have it generate a playlist based on the titles. That's such an absurdly trivial thing to do.
It's not rocket science. It's a trivial streaming music player.
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My first thought for the title is thinking it's because they fired their best/most expensive developer and kept the AI baby sitters.
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.
Never used it.
Started self-hosting Navidrome.
Never gonna use it.
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...
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Glad i moved away from Spotify a year ago. Happy to ve using Qobuz and bandcamp
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