Why Spotify says its developers haven’t written new code in more than a month

Spotify’s most senior engineers don’t type code anymore. In fact, they have not written a single line of code since December, co-CEO Gustav Söderström revealed during a recent earnings call.

It’s not that they’ve stopped working. Instead, through a combination of Claude Code and Spotify’s specialized internal system Honk, engineers can now develop new features simply through Slack.

“As a concrete example, an engineer at Spotify on their morning commute from Slack on their cell...