Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fuck yeah, it is.

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• Kissaki@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  function GetRandomNumber(): return 42;

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• Corngood@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • unnamed1@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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    • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Podcast. Filter out episodes I’ve already listened to. Turn around. Filter out episodes I’ve already listened to. Put the app in the background. Filter out episodes that I’ve already listened to. Finish an episode. Filter out episodes I’ve already listened to. The year is 2026. Filter out episodes that I’ve already listened to.
      Tell me, why is that not persistent?

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    • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There was a time back in maybe… 2009(?) when the UI was great. It made sense, you could do everything you could possibly want very easily. Then they broke everything I think around 2012 and completely revamped the UI, and it’s never been good ever since.

      Glad I left it years ago.

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      • ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        2009 would be back when it was a native application, rather than just a web browser

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      • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I too remember when there were actual markets with actual products who actually competed with one another

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  • LOLjoeWTF@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Have you fixed anything when it’s done something you’ve hated? I sometimes think, “I can fix this” and the I let my workarounds last for years. Like a leaky faucet where I fix it by rotating the handle not to 180° but to like 185.

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    • Corngood@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, I try to make a point of using free software and contributing where I can. It does have to rise to a certain threshold of annoyance though.

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• Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No, that’s just random being random. In order for something truly random to feel less random to the average person, you have to reduce the repetition.

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  • kinsnik@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    and that is what spotify actually does: …atspotify.com/…/shuffle-making-random-feel-more-…

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      <sigh>… And here I am, expecting “shuffle” to be a random ordering without repetition at all, like a silly person apparently.

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      • blackbeans@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This, the Shuffle function should play every song exactly once, just in a random order. This is what cd players have been supporting since the late '80s.

        It is a very simple algorithm but Spotify turned it into something complex that barely works. By default, in large playlists, it will heavily prioritize some songs while others are almost never heard. People have complained about this for years and there is an option in the settings for it now, although I am not yet sure if that setting really disables all of the “smart” algorithms Spotify has associated with shuffle.

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      • kinsnik@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        that is exactly what it does

        the fewer repeats is for when you listen to the same playlist multiple times, not for the sequence itself

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