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lowenbjer

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About lowenbjer

Serial CTO/founder in Stockholm. Video streaming infra, AI, dev tooling. Started out programming lab robots.

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    Comment #47433010

    Fair enough! Can't argue with that

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    Comment #47432011

    I tried tidal for the Lossless (dont care about the 24bit, i care about no EQ and compression added to music) but i went back to spotify for their recommendation model. Its a moat …

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    Comment #47432000

    Fair point, for me there is no scrolling required though, its like nr 3 in the list. I wonder how long it will take for AI to learn how we work with software on an individual level…

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    Comment #47430347

    I get that it looks bad to have vibe coding bugs creeping into your codebase for such a big company, but isn't it common sense that owning your misstakes taking accountability for …

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    Comment #47430321

    Three dots next to the song title, menu opens, "Add to Queue", done.

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    Comment #47430218

    "the spotify subreddit is actively removing discussion of the problem" This sounds like terribly bad form, won't buy them any goodwill down the line.

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    Comment #47382266

    Check back in 2 years time, for now it has survived fine. Someone will be tuning it to write the documentation soon, instead of just blocking! Jokes aside, i think LLMs will enable…

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    Comment #47369559

    Cursor, Sourcegraph Cody, and honestly just Claude with a well-maintained project README already solve the "ask questions about the codebase" part reasonably well. The actual hard …

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    Comment #47369466

    My take after running engineering teams at multiple companies: documentation survives when it lives next to the code. File-level header comments explaining each component's purpose…

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    Comment #47363790

    I've been a CTO and founder several times. The bottleneck was never "getting the work done." It was always translating between the business reality (runway, revenue, growth, what c…

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    Comment #47363696

    Ha, same. I wrote a VOD transcoding orchestrator in Elixir that triggered libav transcodes and custom packaging code in Python. Loved the syntax, and in particular the pattern matc…

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    Comment #47358088

    I know that feeling. Just because a tool is good doesn't mean you enjoy using it. I moved deeper into streaming infra with Python, C/C++, Go, and funnily enough Elixir. Then a comp…

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    Comment #47351705

    I worked on lab automation and scientific software early in my career. One piece of advice: keep it ruthlessly simple. In most software a bug is a bad UX. In scientific software a …

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    Comment #47351403

    I was part of building the streaming frontend for one of Sweden's largest broadcasters in Rails about 10 years ago. Handled 1M+ concurrent users on Heroku with horizontal scaling. …