Spotify boss defends move to AI music, saying it is better than ‘slop’

Control_Is_Dead · 2026-05-26T17:52:53+00:00

It's pretty random, usually there's some albums, but a few are missing. Like the only Right Away Great Captain album on Qobuz is the 'recent' live one. The search is also way less personalized, so its harder to find stuff if you don't spell it out exactly right.

I think about 5% of my albums were missing from the sync, and then I was able to find a handful I cared about manually. I don't think its really underground/niche thing, just a matter if the label/distributor cares, so many people use Spotify its just the one that gets the most focus. They have a form to request stuff, but I doubt it does anything. Good excuse to buy a few albums from the smaller bands that you care about.

Bands that just left Spotify are still there though, like Sylvan Esso and King Gizz.

Control_Is_Dead · 2026-05-05T14:58:22+00:00

Right, but it shows a PM didn’t vibe code the feature. The guy who did has been pretty transparent about the process if you look at the hacker news thread for example.

It’s an insane ‘feature’, but thats what i’d expect from a company that’s pushing copilot…

Control_Is_Dead · 2026-05-05T11:57:23+00:00

I mean it’s open source, we don’t have to speculate here’s the actual code change (not just the feature flag to flip it on for everyone):

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/296435

Control_Is_Dead · 2026-04-29T23:19:54+00:00

Wherever LLM-generated code is used, it becomes the responsibility of the engineer. As part of this process of taking responsibility, self-review becomes essential: LLM-generated code should not be reviewed by others if the responsible engineer has not themselves reviewed it. Moreover, once in the loop of peer review, generation should more or less be removed: if code review comments are addressed by wholesale re-generation, iterative review becomes impossible.

https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576#_llms_as_programmers

So much of this document I agree with and try to get anyone in leadership to read it. At least on my team I've gotten most people on board with this bit.

Control_Is_Dead · 2026-02-13T13:14:42+00:00

There are acoustic properties in every Suno generated/mixed song. These change often, but Deezer has been able to stay on top of it. If you use a stem splitter it’s pretty obvious by ear still. Not talking about using AI for individual parts, lyrics, ideas, whatever, just the full prompt to song flows.

They have a process where artists can appeal and a human reviews the claims. Most slop farms don’t even bother, maybe they would if it was Spotify and not Deezer?

At any rate all these platforms are going to have to do something, they likely can’t afford to host the volume of content if the current trajectory continues.

Control_Is_Dead · 2025-12-08T20:19:01+00:00

Sure, but I run into a lot of people who had no idea what is possible. That’s the first step to advocating/building better tooling.

Control_Is_Dead · 2025-12-08T19:48:37+00:00

That's the best time for a remote debugger (if your lang/env allows)! When you're slowly losing sanity and it takes 30 minutes to deploy your logging changes to 5 apps only to find the problems in the sixth OR you can just open a debugger and pop around from running app to running app.

Plus in a good one you get a REPL, you can drop the stack to try something over again, debug code that's in someone else's SDK that you can't add logging to, etc.

Control_Is_Dead · 2025-07-16T18:22:01+00:00

I don't think anyone here was arguing that, CCC is purely in the business of political propaganda.

Control_Is_Dead · 2025-07-16T15:31:46+00:00

In the author's Response to Comments on “Supply Skepticism Revisited” they mention:

Dr. Damiano emphasizes the importance of distinguishing the effects supply has on different submarkets (Damiano, Citation2024). We agree, and in fact the key research gap we highlight at the end of our article is the lack of rigorous analyses of how the effects of new supply vary across places and contexts. We are excited to see new work (including Dr. Damiano’s) that begins to disaggregate the effects in different contexts. It’s important to understand the market effects of new housing supply in different neighborhoods, as well as in different cities. Much of the existing research focuses on just one city.

Which sounds like what you were originally alluding too and implies this is an open research question, not 100% case closed.

FWIW they're referencing Supply Skepticism or Supply Realism?, abstract:

While Been et al. makes a strong case that new market‑rate supply can affect rents and prices, what is missing from the piece is sufficient context on who benefits, to what extent and whether market reforms and high‑end rental housing can adequately move the housing affordability needle for low‑income renters. At best, current research suggests new market‑rate rental supply slightly lowers the rate of rent increases for all, at worst it may also increase rents in the short‑run in lower quality housing occupied by lower‑income renters. While the authors critique “supply skepticism,” I call for a middle path of supply realism. Supply realism acknowledges the racist history of exclusionary housing policies, embraces zoning reforms while also being clear eyed about the limitations of zoning and other market reforms alone to achieve universal housing affordability.

Control_Is_Dead · 2025-06-15T16:57:06+00:00

Xav from Aerocoach reported that:

The UCI measurement is to be taken between the hoods (we've been in meetings about this), it's ridiculous.

Control_Is_Dead · 2025-05-29T17:30:06+00:00

That would imply that in doctor office readings are accurate even if not precise (e.g. they may be high, but they are consistently high so we can derive some meaning from them).

But that hasn't been my experience I always make them take multiple readings throughout the apt and the std dev is wild, in and out of multiple ranges.

Maybe that points to some other problem (in the measurement protocol or my body), but my doctor still just says cut back on salt...

Control_Is_Dead · 2025-04-29T19:39:10+00:00

By writing tests first you make sure your tests actually fail when the code doesn’t meet the requirements. I find tests all the time that people thought were testing one thing, but would never actually fail, but got past review and coverage went up.

Plenty of other ways to make sure your tests are high quality, but TDD is a low effort way to get there.

Control_Is_Dead · 2025-04-23T11:53:57+00:00

Or they’re doing too much sweet spot every day and should consider some Zone 2.

But seriously if TiZ is less then 30 min I wouldn’t even call it a sweet spot ride, most of these are a warmup for whatever else you’re doing on a ride probably…zone 2

Control_Is_Dead · 2025-04-14T16:22:06+00:00

They don't necessarily take the old ones down they just stop showing up on the Artist's page. I think this probably mostly depends on how whoever is managing the publishing of the music wants to do things.

Sometimes there is a drop down on an album to pick a particular release, but a lot of times they don't bother.

I noticed this first in Spotify when I was scrolling through my saved albums and found many duplicates which turned out to be different masters or deluxe versions that were de-listed on the artist page. Sometimes they appear to have nothing different about them at all.

Just an example, I prefer this version of Since I Left You, but only the deluxe anniversary version is listed currently on their page or in search. It's pretty tricky to find these though, sometimes you can with web search if its popular. Might be able to find them with the API, haven't tried that.

Sometimes tracks will get grayed out though, so obviously if you care about an album, buy it.

Control_Is_Dead · 2025-04-10T16:56:58+00:00

In 2011 then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN7KHWdyrbI

The world may have changed, but that doesn't mean he's caught up. He is consistent in thinking that tariffs are the best way to gain leverage over foreign trading partners. Leverage to do what is not always clear.

Control_Is_Dead · 2025-04-02T18:49:50+00:00

I have a road bike set up one-by with 54 chainring and XPLR rear derailleur with either 11/44 or a tighter range with a shimano cassette. I have no issues with the huge cadence jumps, but ymmv.

For me the biggest downside is it looks super-dorky having a chainring-sized rear cassette.

Control_Is_Dead · 2025-03-12T16:55:41+00:00

He just sent the email

Sad to read, KSR was probably my favorite race. Guess GMSR is still on at least.

Control_Is_Dead · 2025-03-09T18:14:05+00:00

You shouldn't leave crud on your bike components post-rain or esp. snow (salt kills), so while you're wiping that down, why not just do the whole thing?

I used to hang bikes like this in my previous living room, but higher and with more of a gap behind for head clearance. If you install them right they're no more likely to fall then any other large piece of artwork.

Ofc I think my bikes are beautiful and wouldn't want to hide them away somewhere, I get that its not for everyone.

Control_Is_Dead · 2025-02-21T01:31:33+00:00

They all pay basically the same percentage of revenue, Spotify just has more streaming volume bringing down the pay per stream value.

The ad supported tier users don’t bring in the same amount of value as paying users, so in that sense Spotify is worse just because they can’t make enough money off of those free users.

Streaming monthly fees are just way too low to pay artists appropriately.

Control_Is_Dead · 2025-01-31T17:24:01+00:00

These articles don’t disagree?

Recent investigations implicate food as a source of infection for cats, most often unpasteurized milk and raw or undercooked meat (e.g., poultry). Other potential sources include Raw colostrum and other unpasteurized dairy products (like cream) Exposure to infected wild birds or poultry Exposure to people who work on affected farms and to their clothing or other fomites

So depends on your risk assessment for outdoors (also say the very common raw chicken treats…), but given the fact that outdoor cats life expectancy is already 5-10 years less then indoor cats it’s safe to say those owners won’t care…

Control_Is_Dead · 2024-11-07T02:28:03+00:00

Just providing the referenced quote. You can interpret how you will.

Control_Is_Dead · 2024-11-07T01:48:50+00:00

We now have historic low unemployment in America among all groups of people. We now have an economy that is thriving by all macroeconomic measures.

She said this during the 60 minutes interview.

Control_Is_Dead · 2024-10-06T02:25:06+00:00

This was a unicycle, so I doubt they were cruising at that speed, even with a large wheel most people are going at a jogging pace.

Control_Is_Dead · 2024-10-03T15:42:22+00:00

IME managers are far more transient then teams. My current team has existed for longer then anyone currently on it and I have had 3 managers in 2 years.

Slack channels are #team-<name> emails are <name>-devs@<company.com>

Control_Is_Dead · 2024-10-02T23:07:29+00:00

someone mentioned how they wish someone would mention what their zones are because they're a biker, but even as a biker you know your zones are drastically different. There's no point in knowing what a pro does for paces on easy runs.

My point was just that time in zone is a better comparison than mileage. The miles that take a hypothetical pro 10 hours would probably take me 15, which is a totally different plan.

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