Spotify CEO says its top developers 'have not written a single line of code' in 2026

Spotify CEO Gustav Söderström said his top developers are supervising AI instead of writing code themselves, which is a path to greater efficiency.

Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.

Spotify says engineers haven't written code in months as AI takes over development

Speaking during the firm’s fourth-quarter earnings call, co-Chief Executive Officer Gustav Söderström said AI is now deeply ...
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While Microsoft and Apple don’t release the source code for their operating systems, a good estimate is that it takes around 50 million lines of code to run these software behemoths. The Linux kernel ...