▲ 430 ▼ Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI (techcrunch.com) submitted 8 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 136 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago (3 children) Bullshit permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 months ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Skymt@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago It's quite possible they already fired their best developers permalink fedilink source parent [–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 months ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Skymt@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago It's quite possible they already fired their best developers permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent