Why Spotify says its developers haven't written new code more than a month
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Why Spotify says its developers haven't written new code more than a month
"As a concrete example, an engineer at Spotify on their morning commute from Slack on their cell phone can tell Claude to fix a bug or add a new feature to the iOS app,"
"And once Claude finishes that work, the engineer then gets a new version of the app, pushed to them on Slack on their phone, so that he can then merge it to production, all before they even arrive at the office."
"Certainly [before AI tools,] I spent my entire vacation coding rather than being on holiday, and I think most people in tech did,"
Spotify's most senior engineers have not written a single line of code since December. Engineers use Claude Code, powered by the December release of Antropic's Claude Opus 4.5, combined with an internal system called Honk and Slack integration to request and receive code and builds. Engineers can ask Claude during a commute to fix bugs or add iOS features, receive a new app version on their phone via Slack, and merge it to production before arriving at the office. The AI-enabled workflow has enabled more than 50 new features in 2025 and significantly increased development speed and changed developer routines.
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