Spotify says its top developers haven't written code since December thanks to AI
On its fourth quarter earnings call Spotify said engineers are using an internal system called Honk with Claude Code to generate and deploy code, speeding feature delivery and building a proprietary music dataset.
- Spotify told analysts that its best developers have not written a single line of code since December.
- Engineers use an internal system called Honk that leverages generative AI and Claude Code for real time code generation and deployment.
- Spotify described a workflow where an engineer can ask Claude to fix a bug from Slack on a phone and receive a new app build before arriving at the office.
- The company credited AI with speeding coding and deployment and said it shipped more than 50 app features and changes in 2025.
- Spotify is building a proprietary dataset of music preferences and behavior that it says cannot be easily replicated by other language models.
- The company allows artists and labels to mark AI generated tracks in metadata and says it is policing the platform for spam.