Has Spotify had any new code written?
Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI
Submitted 5 hours ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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minorkeys@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
itsathursday@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
bagsy@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
There is zero chance this is true.
tleb@lemmy.ca 52 minutes ago
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.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 43 minutes ago
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.
grue@lemmy.world 49 minutes ago
I’m not so sure. I could believe their entire job has been consumed by failing AI slop in code review.
XLE@piefed.social 2 hours ago
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?
UltraBlack@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
If I was working foe spotify I would honestly lie just to do something better than ask an AI to do bullshit for me
SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de 1 hour ago
They wheren’t been coding anything even before AI
Telorand@reddthat.com 4 hours ago
“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!
KiwiTB@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Promotes ICE and uses AI. What a company of assholes.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 42 minutes ago
Don’t forget that they fork over millions of dollars to Joe Rogan while they are doing it.
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Well…
They are swedish
boboliosisjones@feddit.nu 2 hours ago
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ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 2 hours ago
Thankfully I dumped this shit platform last year.
gezero@lemmy.bowyerhub.uk 4 hours ago
The same company who got their whole DB of songs leaked?
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
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.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Please someone give me a decent non US alternative to this company.
Make transfer easy for a family group.
madjo@piefed.social 1 hour ago
Deezer or Qobuz. Both are French.
And you can use Soundiiz to move your playlists.
bluemite@lemmy.world 33 minutes ago
I’ve tried both and like Qobuz better because I can actually switch devices and it’s aware of what I was listening to on the other. Here’s an interview with someone from Qobuz talking about their service and music in general.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
I dunno where Tidal is based out of so I’m gonna recommend Lidarr
omarthemediocre@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Is fixing all those AI written lines of code not counted as writing line of code?
bufalo1973@piefed.social 1 hour ago
You are assuming those bugs get fixed.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I mean… how much are you really changing at this point anyway?
Bookmeat@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Vibe coding by experts can actually be effective. It’s the junior developers that really fuck it up.
madjo@piefed.social 1 hour ago
It can give me a starting point, but I’d never use it for anything production worthy.
EvenOdds@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Depends on what you call vibe coding. AI tools in the hands of experts can be effective, but definitely not fully hands off.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Is this why my wife is constantly complaining that her playlists constantly keep playing the same songs over and over?
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Fuck yeah, it is.
Corngood@lemmy.ml 5 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.
unnamed1@feddit.org 5 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.
LOLjoeWTF@lemmy.world 2 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.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 4 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.
kinsnik@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
and that is what spotify actually does: …atspotify.com/…/shuffle-making-random-feel-more-…