Spotify’s Best Devs Stopped Coding: The ‘Honk’ AI Reviewer Shift
Spotify’s ‘Honk’ Moment: Why Senior Devs Stopped Coding in Dec 2025 Image: Haithem Ferdi / Unsplash The 30-Second Brief (Why This Matters) The News: Spotify Co-CEO Gustav Söderström confirmed that senior developers have effectively stopped writing manual code as of December 2025. The Tool: An internal “agentic” workflow named “Honk,” powered by Claude Code. The…