Glad i moved away from Spotify a year ago. Happy to ve using Qobuz and bandcamp
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
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Even if you don't subscribe to Qobizz their magazine helps me find new music all the time
Explains a lot
Is this why my wife is constantly complaining that her playlists constantly keep playing the same songs over and over?
Fuck yeah, it is.
My favourite example of Spotify being shit is:
I want to play an album, so I go to it and press play. Then a bit later I want to queue a second album after the first one is done. How do I do that? As far as I can tell the answer is to go fuck myself. I have start a new queue or playlist with both albums in it.
That's apart from all the basic software quality stuff like randomly restarting the queue.
Edit: so now I use finamp with jellyfin, which I can actually fix when it does something I hate.
Spotifys UX has always been terrible. We all got used to having crappy software. It’s too convenient that’s AI also makes crappy vibecode without supervision. No one will notice anything.
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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.
There is zero chance this is true.
Probably just lying to their boss. I have an AI obsessed boss and regularly lie about how much I use it because productivity is actually measured entirely by their perception of you and not by any real metric.
I thought about lying on my last report but decided to not. At this point they're going to have to fire me if they can't accept the truth. I'm not lying to save my skin.
I've tried explaining this to me peers that just quietly bust their asses while noisy jerks (including me, but to a lesser extent than most) get perceived as high performers because they engage with their bosses and work on things that have high visibility.
And their bosses are just lying to their bosses, and it's lying and yessing all up and down the line, and the rest of us out here just have to live with whatever The Machine pukes out for us.
It’s probably true.
Think of it with this alternate headline:
Spotify reclassifies what constitutes a good developer
And no doubt, they’re capturing what these “good developers” do to better train the clanker to make the “bad developers” redundant.
If I was working foe spotify I would honestly lie just to do something better than ask an AI to do bullshit for me
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Spotify is a subscription radio station. I'm sure their development team is large and doing great secret, next-level things. /s
Spotify lies as naturally as it squeezes musicians.
Has Spotify had any new code written?
“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!
Is the idea that they're somehow reviewing the code on their phone during their commute? Or are they just pushing to prod without even glancing at it? Why bother with the middle man. Just have the AI push it. What a stupid admission.
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i assumed the commuting to be done via public transport, but yes, you should not give one minute outside of working hours to the soulless company. I don't know what these engineers are thinking, digging their way in the future when they'll be made redundant.
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I bet they have developers not write, but I guarantee you that those are not their best devs...
Promotes ICE and uses AI. What a company of assholes.
Don't forget that they fork over millions of dollars to Joe Rogan while they are doing it.
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Lol, as if I needed another reason to stay away from them 🤣
Prompt: On line 23, between the words fn and close, write void.
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.
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