Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/spotify-says-its-best-developers-havent-written-a-line-of-code-since-december-thanks-to-ai/

4•igtztorrero•1h ago

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ramuel•1h ago

That sounds concerning...

How exactly are they measuring their best developers? Is "best" those with the most AI-generated code put into prod???

fainpul•1h ago

> the best developers at the company “have not written a single line of code since December.”

Those are the best. The suckers still write code.

burnerToBetOut•28m ago

   > …How exactly are they
   > measuring their best
   > developers?…

Easy. They're the chumps who are perfectly fine working twelve hour days; never getting a moment's respite from work…

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“As a concrete example, an engineer at Spotify on their morning commute…all before they even arrive at the office.”

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almosthere•1h ago

10 years from now

/v1/fetch/music

Thought for 0.000001 seconds: Hmmm, the user is asking for a list of music, it looks like that's in the the postgres database music_track.... (

All endpoints will just directly be to the LLM that has all the access control rules, etc.. No hacking will be possible. No more code it's just all ST:TNG computer from here on out.

nadis•49m ago

> "At Spotify, engineers are using an internal system called “Honk” to speed up coding and product velocity, the company told analysts on the call. This system allows for things like remote, real-time code deployment using generative AI, and specifically Claude Code."

Fascinating...I wonder what the internal system "Honk" does vs. what Claude Code natively does. Why build an internal system at all? I found the article fairly vague on it beyond this quote; seems like CI/CD and such maybe?