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.
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
Idk why the donwvotes. This is how these players implement shuffle, because people don’t actually want a random shuffle most times.
Maybe people disliked my fun fact, maybe I came off the wrong way, maybe people took offense at my typo. It doesn’t matter much. I comment for me! (This comment included)
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
Promotes ICE and uses AI. What a company of assholes.
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.
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
Has Spotify had any new code written?
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.
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
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.
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
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
How many lines of code have they had to fix thanks to AI?
Good thing Anna’s Archive exists and just keeps getting better.
