Is this why my wife is constantly complaining that her playlists constantly keep playing the same songs over and over?
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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'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.
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.
If I was working foe spotify I would honestly lie just to do something better than ask an AI to do bullshit for me
Truth no longer matters to these clowns. Who cares about it's true? Who cares that Spotify is already good... And the one thing they can do to is make it worse?
Yeah, I wonder about this often: the product is finished; aside from curation, what else does it need?
An A-B repeat feature. Member when media players had that? I member. Back in my day you could listen to the ooga booga section of Freak on a Leash 162 times in a row with just two clicks.
I'm not so sure. I could believe their entire productivity has been consumed by failing AI slop in code reviews.
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.
“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.
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.
Right? This article is so full of shit, there's hardly room left for anything else. It's like they only collected soundbites from the employees who are furthest from any actual development role...
Promotes ICE and uses AI. What a company of assholes.
That explains how Anna's Archives got in
I was so excited to get my grubby hands on that music only to later learn it was hundreds of terabytes...
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.
Spotify’s best dev reporting for stand-up

I need to watch scary movie again. Haven't seen that since ... Probably some time in the 00s. It's probably super problematic though.
Their best developers.
The worst ones are still there checking the vibe coded garbage.
How is that still a reason to brag about
Hm. A new way to tell something is shit without actually using these words
The same company who got their whole DB of songs leaked?
More like scraped. You can't really leak smth that's already publicly accessible
Spotify has public databases? That's so nice of them. Really progressive.
So where can I download my fave albums?
Well, IMO, "public access" includes semi-restricted stuff, like the requirement for an account. E.g. rutracker is closer to public than to private, compared to REDacted. As for downloading, there's not much technical difference between it and streaming, I.e. nothing really prevents you from playing into a virtual soundcard or even reverse-engineering the protocol and saving data directly (moreover, there are such projects on github)
They were accessed through the API.
Glad i moved away from Spotify a year ago. Happy to ve using Qobuz and bandcamp
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?? 😂
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Find a musician you like. Buy their music on Bandcamp. Download as FLAC.
It may be waiting to enshittify, but as it is still DRM free, that's not a huge deal breaker (as long as they don't change this policy). Plus, they're still doing Bandcamp fridays, so it's still the best way to financially support a musician at the moment.
Yeah I download the files right away. It creates something of an Odysseus Pact I think. The second they stop offering me the downloads DRM free, I download the files DRM free elsewhere.
I find Bandcamp missing most of the artists I listen to. I've had a lot more success buying from Qobuz and beatport.
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.
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