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47 Spotify Says Its Best Developers Haven't Written a Line of Code Since December, Thanks To AI

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msmash @ Slashdot · today 14:30 EDT

Spotify Says Its Best Developers Haven't Written a Line of Code Since December, Thanks To AI

Spotify's best developers have stopped writing code manually since December and now rely on an internal AI system called Honk that enables remote, real-time code deployment through Claude Code, the company's co-CEO Gustav Soderstrom said during a fourth-quarter earnings call this week.

Engineers can fix bugs or add features to the iOS app from Slack on their phones during their morning commute and receive a new version of the app pushed to Slack before arriving at the office. The system has helped Spotify

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