Their best developers.
The worst ones are still there checking the vibe coded garbage.
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.
Always the fucking suits.
Promotes ICE and uses AI. What a company of assholes.
Don’t forget that they fork over millions of dollars to Joe Rogan while they are doing it.
The same company who got their whole DB of songs leaked?
They were accessed through the API.
An API that at best allowed a small number is users to access millions of hours of content in a relatively short window of time sure as shit feels like a leak to me.
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’ve tried explaining this to me peers that just quietly bust their asses while noisy jerks (including me, but to a lesser extent than most) get perceived as high performers because they engage with their bosses and work on things that have high visibility.
Truth no longer matters to these clowns. Who cares about it’s true? Who cares that Spotify is already good… And the one thing they can do to is make it worse?
Yeah, I wonder about this often: the product is finished; aside from curation, what else does it need?
An A-B repeat feature. Member when media players had that? I member. Back in my day you could listen to the ooga booga section of Freak on a Leash 162 times in a row with just two clicks.
You will never see that implemented. You should be thankful you even have a pause button.
“As a concrete example, an engineer at Spotify on their morning commute from Slack on their cell phone can tell Claude to fix a bug or add a new feature to the iOS app,” Söderström said.
Cool, so your goal is to replace your senior engineers with AI slop, but it’s still generating bugs? Doesn’t sound like much of an improvement.
“And once Claude finishes that work, the engineer then gets a new version of the app, pushed to them on Slack on their phone, so that he can then merge it to production, all before they even arrive at the office.”
Translation: Want to work as hard as a sole proprietor but not get paid like one? Great! You can work from your car while dealing with bullshit commuter traffic. Also, if you get into an accident, you can’t claim worker’s compensation or SDL, because you’re not technically on the job, yet! Thanks for being a team player!
Right? This article is so full of shit, there’s hardly room left for anything else. It’s like they only collected soundbites from the employees who are furthest from any actual development role…
Is the idea that they’re somehow reviewing the code on their phone during their commute? Or are they just pushing to prod without even glancing at it? Why bother with the middle man. Just have the AI push it. What a stupid admission.
i assumed the commuting to be done via public transport, but yes, you should not give one minute outside of working hours to the soulless company. I don’t know what these engineers are thinking, digging their way in the future when they’ll be made redundant.
