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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.
For me it started crashing when I open an instance on another device
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.
I’ve been using it for nearly a decade, it’s changed a lot.
Same. I just simply don't agree. If you consider tiny features not a soul needs like yearly reviews of one's listening habits and the roll out of podcasts as things worth mentioning, ok, they were not exactly doing anything radically new at that point anyway.
I don’t know why you’d be leaving ux out.
Because UX 90% adds nothing and chiefly serves to suggest innovation.
You must be trolling come on now.
I am. I want Spotify employees to read this and get steamingly mad. They are complicit in ruining music.
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Find a musician you like. Buy their music on Bandcamp. Download as FLAC.
I wouldn't place too much trust in Bandcamp. It was acquired by Epic Games and then sold to Songtradr shortly after, it's waiting to enshittify. It might also be better to buy off of labels and artists directly if you want to "support" an artists or a label. Used CDs and vinyls are great too.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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How many lines of code have they had to fix thanks to AI?
That's a problem for the future team, not the current bosses who will give themselves golden parachutes.
Hm. A new way to tell something is shit without actually using these words
Bullshit
It's quite possible they already fired their best developers
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.
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Always the fucking suits.
Good thing Anna's Archive exists and just keeps getting better.
They ate lying without a question.
I can believe it for their best developers.
What would worry me is this being true for their middle and low tier developers.
Never used it.
Started self-hosting Navidrome.
Never gonna use it.
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.
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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So glad I dropped Spotify and moved to Deezer.
My first thought for the title is thinking it's because they fired their best/most expensive developer and kept the AI baby sitters.
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Spotify is a subscription radio station. I'm sure their development team is large and doing great secret, next-level things. /s
This seems like a warning sign. If the dev are not innovating new system and algorithm that AI cannot produce then this product will not evolve !
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