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 ...

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.
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Spotify CEO reveals new painful (?) reality, saying devs "have not written a single line of code since December"

One of the company’s CEOs, Gustav Söderström, shared that Spotify’s developers haven’t written “a single line of code since December,” cites TechCrunch, a statement that was made during the company’s ...

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 ...
PC Magazine

lines of code

The instructions a programmer writes when creating a program. Lines of code are the "source code" of the program, and one line may generate one machine instruction or several depending on the ...
Hackaday

lines of code

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 ...