Has Spotify had any new code written?
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
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They wheren't been coding anything even before AI
Spotify’s best dev reporting for stand-up
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.
I'm not so sure. I could believe their entire productivity has been consumed by failing AI slop in code reviews.
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.
If I was working foe spotify I would honestly lie just to do something better than ask an AI to do bullshit for me
Is this why my wife is constantly complaining that her playlists constantly keep playing the same songs over and over?
Fuck yeah, it is.
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.
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.
Yeah, I try to make a point of using free software and contributing where I can. It does have to rise to a certain threshold of annoyance though.
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.
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?
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.
2009 would be back when it was a native application, rather than just a web browser
I too remember when there were actual markets with actual products who actually competed with one another
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
... 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
You mean *shuffle" like when you shuffle a deck of cards and have exactly the same cards still but in a different order with no single card repeating because you started out with a deck of cards and why would there suddenly be an extra card or 5 of the same face value in the deck because that's just crazy talk? That kind of shuffle?
Yeah sorry, Spotify doesn't do that.
“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!
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.
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.
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.
Well…
They are swedish
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I'm pretty sure the only way this is true, is if they qualify their best developers as the developers who use AI the most and by absolutely no metric which would indicate this is actually good code.
Please someone give me a decent non US alternative to this company.
Make transfer easy for a family group.
Deezer or Qobuz. Both are French.
And you can use Soundiiz to move your playlists.
I've tried both and like Qobuz better because I can actually switch devices and it's aware of what I was listening to on the other. Here's an interview with someone from Qobuz talking about their service and music in general.
I dunno where Tidal is based out of so I'm gonna recommend Lidarr
The same company who got their whole DB of songs leaked?
More like scraped. You can't really leak smth that's already publicly accessible
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.
Thankfully I dumped this shit platform last year.
Is fixing all those AI written lines of code not counted as writing line of code?
You are assuming those bugs get fixed.
I mean.. how much are you really changing at this point anyway?