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

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

Spotify's top developers haven't written any code since December, thanks to the company's use of artificial intelligence to accelerate development.

Spotify is now limiting each app to only five users, and requires devs to have a Premium subscription. If developers need to make their app available to a wider user base, they will have to apply for ...

The use of AI to write code is leading to productivity gains which would’ve felt like science fiction even a year ago.

During the company’s Q4 earnings call, Gustav Söderström revealed that Spotify had fully embraced vibe coding. AI is coming for a lot of jobs, and software developer is high on the list of those in ...

Spotify's CEO says the company's best developers are exclusively using AI to write code. Gustav Söderström said AI generates the code and the engineers "supervise" it. Some engineers have said ...

On February 10, 2026, Spotify announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2025 (October to December). Revenue increased 13% year-on-year to $4.5 billion, with a gross profit margin of 33 ...