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Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 76 points 7 months ago* (8 children)

My favourite example of Spotify being shit is:

I want to play an album, so I go to it and press play. Then a bit later I want to queue a second album after the first one is done. How do I do that? As far as I can tell the answer is to go fuck myself. I have start a new queue or playlist with both albums in it.

That's apart from all the basic software quality stuff like randomly restarting the queue.

Edit: so now I use finamp with jellyfin, which I can actually fix when it does something I hate.

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  • [–] 31 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Spotifys UX has always been terrible. We all got used to having crappy software. It’s too convenient that’s AI also makes crappy vibecode without supervision. No one will notice anything.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    There was a time back in maybe... 2009(?) when the UI was great. It made sense, you could do everything you could possibly want very easily. Then they broke everything I think around 2012 and completely revamped the UI, and it's never been good ever since.

    Glad I left it years ago.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    Podcast. Filter out episodes I've already listened to. Turn around. Filter out episodes I've already listened to. Put the app in the background. Filter out episodes that I've already listened to. Finish an episode. Filter out episodes I've already listened to. The year is 2026. Filter out episodes that I've already listened to.
    Tell me, why is that not persistent?

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Have you fixed anything when it's done something you've hated? I sometimes think, "I can fix this" and the I let my workarounds last for years. Like a leaky faucet where I fix it by rotating the handle not to 180° but to like 185.

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