{"id":295101,"date":"2026-02-13T00:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295101\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T00:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:15:09","slug":"spotify-says-its-best-developers-havent-written-a-line-of-code-since-december-thanks-to-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295101\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 call<\/a> that the best developers at the company \u201chave not written a single line of code since December.\u201d That statement, from Spotify co-CEO Gustav S\u00f6derstr\u00f6m, came alongside other comments about how the company is using AI to accelerate development.<\/p>\n

Of note, Spotify pointed out it shipped more than 50 new features and changes to its streaming app throughout 2025. And, most recently, it has rolled out more features, like AI-powered Prompted Playlists<\/a>, Page Match<\/a> for audiobooks, and About This Song<\/a>, which all launched within the past few weeks.<\/p>\n

At Spotify, engineers are using an internal system called \u201cHonk\u201d 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. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs 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,\u201d S\u00f6derstr\u00f6m said. \u201cAnd 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spotify credited the system in helping to speed up coding and deployment \u201ctremendously.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWe foresee this not being the end of the line in terms of AI development, just the beginning,\u201d S\u00f6derstr\u00f6m said.<\/p>\n

The exec also touted Spotify\u2019s ability to build a unique dataset that other LLMs could not commoditize, the way they could other online resources, like Wikipedia. That\u2019s because there\u2019s not always a factual answer for music-related questions, he said. <\/p>\n

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For instance, if you asked what workout music is, you\u2019d get different answers from different people, sometimes based on their geography. Americans tend to prefer hip-hop overall, though millions prefer death metal. And while a number of Europeans would work out to EDM, many Scandinavians like heavy metal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a dataset that we are building right now that no one else is really building. It does not exist at this scale. And we see it improving every time we retrain our models,\u201d S\u00f6derstr\u00f6m noted. <\/p>\n

Analysts on the call also asked about Spotify\u2019s approach to AI-generated music. The company explained that it\u2019s allowing artists and labels to indicate in a track\u2019s metadata<\/a> how the song was made but is still policing the platform for spam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,37177,1223,61,60,278,14735,3277,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-295101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-claude-code","12":"tag-generative-ai","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-music","16":"tag-spotify","17":"tag-streaming","18":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}