"Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings that the best developers at the company "have not written a single line of code since December." That statement, from Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström, came alongside other comments about how the company is using AI to accelerate development."
""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," Söderström said. "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.""
Top developers at Spotify have not written code since December due to AI-driven workflows and tooling. Engineers use an internal system called Honk that enables remote, real-time code deployment using generative AI and Claude Code. An engineer can instruct Claude from a phone to fix bugs or add features and receive a new app version via Slack before arriving at the office. Spotify shipped more than 50 new features and changes throughout 2025 and launched AI-powered Prompted Playlists, Page Match for audiobooks, and About This Song. Spotify builds a unique music dataset that other LLMs cannot easily commoditize.
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