Spotify’s best dev reporting for stand-up
I need to watch scary movie again. Haven’t seen that since … Probably some time in the 00s. It’s probably super problematic though.
Eh… funny is funny
Seeing this screenshot has prompted me to watch it tonight as well.
“Smell this!”
"Ew, what’s that?
“MY ASS”
Lol, as if I needed another reason to stay away from them 🤣
Never used it.
Started self-hosting Navidrome.
Never gonna use it.
I haven’t worked in the industry before, but I have always assumed the “best developer” reviews code and architects the project, thus they write a minimal amount of code pre-AI anyway…
It’s a mixed bag.
Yeah they’re gonna need to save all the money they can because everyone I know is cancelling their subs to basically every service, from Amazon to Spotify to Crunchyroll to Netflix.
These fucking companies think they can do whatever they want and we’ll just roll over and take it and continue to give them cash every month.
Well, if you are a top developer, you don’t write lines of code. You leave this to your underlings.
On a building site, the architect is not laying bricks, either.
Okay but your best masons are. Architects and developers are different.
In what I’ve seen, the best masons are on construction sites planning the work before hand. The inexperienced and newby masons mix mortar and carry bricks around. The top elder guys lead the prep work planing when and where stuff needs to be for what is being built. But once the machine starts mixing the cement all those guys do is lay bricks.
They don’t shovel, they don’t mix mortar, they don’t carry materials. Just laying brick after brick until they run out of materials or the construction is done. It’s quite mesmerizing to see a good contractor working efficiently, rare but fascinating.
I wouldn’t trust an architect even with making mortar(or a sound building design to begin with), but I would expect a top developer to be able to code.
To be able to code is what brings a developer to be on top. But from a certain point, you mostly herd junior programmers.
That explains how Anna’s Archives got in
I was so excited to get my grubby hands on that music only to later learn it was hundreds of terabytes…
Its also not sorted in any way that’s usable.
I think thats why the code was needed…
You were expecting to be able to burn out all the music in the world (yes, hyperbolic, shut up) on a couple DVDs?
From The Software Quality and Productivity Crisis Executives Won’t Address (via on Lemmy)
Executives aren’t ignorant. They have the data. They commission the surveys. They attend the conferences where CTOs present their concerns. They know that:
- 91% of CTOs cite technical debt as the biggest challenge
- 75% of projects are expected to fail
- 69% of developers lose significant time to inefficiencies
- Only 39% of projects meet success criteria
- The recommended 15–20% investment in technical debt management yields better long-term returns than crisis spending
Yet they choose:
- Not to allocate recommended budgets for technical debt management
- Not to make quality a strategic priority despite CTOs’ and developers’ concerns
- Not to mention these challenges in public communications to shareholders
- To celebrate AI productivity gains whilst developers report record inefficiency
- To focus on the next hype cycle (AI) rather than address fundamental problems
This isn’t a failure of knowledge. It looks to me like a failure of courage and integrity. A failure of the very concept of leadership.
Explains a lot
Glad i moved away from Spotify a year ago. Happy to ve using Qobuz and bandcamp
Even if you don’t subscribe to Qobizz their magazine helps me find new music all the time
Spotify lies as naturally as it squeezes musicians.
Prompt: On line 23, between the words fn and close, write void.
How is that still a reason to brag about
Fewer lines of code -> fewer programmers -> smaller salaries -> higher stock value
I can believe it for their best developers.
What would worry me is this being true for their middle and low tier developers.
Promotes ICE and uses AI. What a company of assholes.
Well…
They are swedish
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Used to be, anyway. They don’t act like they are.
Don’t forget that they fork over millions of dollars to Joe Rogan while they are doing it.
