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Re:Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers by j1elo on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @04:00PM (#47430700)
It's fully caused by management mindset. There are companies that are investing hard on the AI trend, but the message is clear: all code pushed is your ultimate responsonsibility, and if it lacks quality or causes problems, you're on the hook for it; using AI hasn't changed that.

So if Spotify had a modicum of AI usage hygiene, plus accountability expectations for code quality, this would still mean a bad performance review for whoever introduced this issue (person or team; poor results and mistakes are never something that come from a single source)

Re:Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers by dominotw on Saturday March 21, 2026 @01:05PM (#47468872)
spotify has no performance review process or any sort of performance management. Never heard of anyone getting piped there for many years i was there.