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Spotify's functions have not changed a bit since 2016. It is literally the same application, what has changed are the tiny things they're doing for compatibility but that is not really worth mentioning. Intentionally leaving UX out.
Honestly what code is there to write for this glorified web browser? They're probably also outsourcing most of their data collection and recommendation algorithms.
Buy physical media, rip CDs, share shit and that's it
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.
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
Good thing Anna's Archive exists and just keeps getting better.
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.
Notifications don't even work for most of my saved podcasts.
So glad I dropped Spotify and moved to Deezer.
Reads as: we here at Spotify are a bunch of naive and gullible halfwits who have diluted themselves into being proud of it.
thumbs up the suspenders, belly proudly hanging over the belt and gently rolling the feet from heel to toe
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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.
Or even to true believers, they can just vibe code up just as good of an app.
It basically declares point blank that the technology does not matter, it's their marketing and music rights only that matter.
My first thought for the title is thinking it's because they fired their best/most expensive developer and kept the AI baby sitters.
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.
Bullshit
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.
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.
It's quite possible they already fired their best developers
Do you know what they 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.
Never used it.
Started self-hosting Navidrome.
Never gonna use it.
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...
You were expecting to be able to burn out all the music in the world (yes, hyperbolic, shut up) on a couple DVDs?
Its also not sorted in any way that's usable.
How is that still a reason to brag about
Fewer lines of code -> fewer programmers -> smaller salaries -> higher stock value
I haven't worked in the industry before, but I have always assumed the "best developer" reviews code and architects the project, thus they write a minimal amount of code pre-AI anyway...
It’s a mixed bag.
From The Software Quality and Productivity Crisis Executives Won’t Address (via on Lemmy)
Executives aren’t ignorant. They have the data. They commission the surveys. They attend the conferences where CTOs present their concerns. They know that:
- 91% of CTOs cite technical debt as the biggest challenge
- 75% of projects are expected to fail
- 69% of developers lose significant time to inefficiencies
- Only 39% of projects meet success criteria
- The recommended 15–20% investment in technical debt management yields better long-term returns than crisis spending
Yet they choose:
- Not to allocate recommended budgets for technical debt management
- Not to make quality a strategic priority despite CTOs’ and developers’ concerns
- Not to mention these challenges in public communications to shareholders
- To celebrate AI productivity gains whilst developers report record inefficiency
- To focus on the next hype cycle (AI) rather than address fundamental problems
This isn’t a failure of knowledge. It looks to me like a failure of courage and integrity. A failure of the very concept of leadership.
Spotify is a subscription radio station. I'm sure their development team is large and doing great secret, next-level things. /s
Glad i moved away from Spotify a year ago. Happy to ve using Qobuz and bandcamp
Even if you don't subscribe to Qobizz their magazine helps me find new music all the time
Explains a lot
I bet they have developers not write, but I guarantee you that those are not their best devs...
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.
Spotify lies as naturally as it squeezes musicians.
