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Spotify says its best developers haven't written code since Dec, thanks to AI

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Re: Spotify says its best developers haven't written code since Dec, thanks to AI

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They haven't written code in years seeing how their piece of shit desktop app uses more ram and cpu cycles to stream 192kbps music in a day than the entire NASA stack for all Apollo missions combined. They should ask Claude to rewrite it in a real programming language

I just read it as "we were stuck and nobody got something done at all" to "we at least got something deployed". Going from zero to something mathematically speaking a very large increase (like infinite?).

Re: Spotify says its best developers haven't written code since Dec, thanks to AI

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The co-CEO gives a terrible example. A developer is working while commuting? How clear is one's thinking skills during that time? How safe is that to deploy a production commit? Does Spotify test in prod?

No mention of any code review in their example.

Re: Spotify says its best developers haven't written code since Dec, thanks to AI

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post #15

They haven't written code in years seeing how their piece of shit desktop app uses more ram and cpu cycles to stream 192kbps music in a day than the entire NASA stack for all Apollo missions combined. They should ask Claude to rewrite it in a real programming language

I just read it as "we were stuck and nobody got something done at all" to "we at least got something deployed". Going from zero to something mathematically speaking a very large increase (like infinite?).

> like infinite?

It's undefined because it's asking, "what is the inverse of 0/x" and x/0 has infinite correct answers if x = 0 and no correct answer if x ≠ 0.

Re: Spotify says its best developers haven't written code since Dec, thanks to AI

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And it shows. Desktop app gets laggier and buggier on every update.

And recently like 1 of every 10 consecutive songs just doesn't play. When clicking on the song, it feels like the app tries to redirect original song link (the "app" is a website) to some other link and it doesn't find it. As an example, Madonna - Frozen (from 1998 Ray of Light album) just doesn't play, just tried.

I have been paying Spotify customer since 2008 or something, I have playlists that are so old that it doesn't show dates added. Last week I cancelled my subscription, and switched to YouTube Premium (no ads + YT Music). YT music is even more horrible especially with playlists. Maybe I just buy somewhere (Amazon MP3?) my the 10 most listened albums and call it my music listening for the future.

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