Hm. A new way to tell something is shit without actually using these words
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
Good thing Anna’s Archive exists and just keeps getting better.
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.
Do you know what we call someone that doesn’t write a single line of code?
Anything other than a “developer”.
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.
Bullshit
It’s quite possible they already fired their best developers
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.
My first thought for the title is thinking it’s because they fired their best/most expensive developer and kept the AI baby sitters.
How is that still a reason to brag about
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
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.
Is this why my wife is constantly complaining that her playlists constantly keep playing the same songs over and over?
Fuck yeah, it is.
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.
Idk why the donwvotes. This is how these players implement shuffle, because people don’t actually want a random shuffle most times.
and that is what spotify actually does: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2025/11/shuffle-making-random-feel-more-human
<sigh>… And here I am, expecting “shuffle” to be a random ordering without repetition at all, like a silly person apparently.
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
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 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
I’m not so sure. I could believe their entire productivity has been consumed by failing AI slop in code reviews.
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.
Eh… funny is funny
Has Spotify had any new code written?
