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by fragmede 436 days ago
> Since then they've added massive, sophisticated systems for user monitoring and prediction, ad distribution, abuse and fraud detection, and so on. Use that code generation platform to build a product off any combination of two of the larger subsystems at Spotify

I'm listening. I fully admit that I was looking at Spotify as a user and thus only as a music playing widget so I'd love to hear more about this side of things. What is user prediction?
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cess11 436 days ago
They spend a lot of effort trying to get good at predicting user preferences, through modeling of personality, behaviour patterns and more.

You can find out quite a lot in their blogs and publications:

https://research.atspotify.com/2022/02/modeling-users-accord...

https://research.atspotify.com/user-modeling/

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namaria 435 days ago
> I fully admit that I was looking at Spotify as a user and thus only as a music playing widget

This is the key insight here. Software is not the interface you see. There a whole lot more you don't know about (and probably no one knew before building it), and asking an LLM to find some JS front end patterns that abound in its training data won't come close to giving you.

That is why so many developers are skeptical of the amount of hype around LLMs generating code.

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