Spotify's Best Engineers Stopped Writing Code. The Rest of Us Should Be Paying Attention.
Spotify’s CEO told Wall Street this week that his best engineers haven’t written a single line of code since December. They just prompt AI and review what comes out. This isn’t a startup flex. This is a company with 600 million monthly users telling investors that code-writing is officially a machine’s job. And the implications go way beyond Spotify. The Supervisor Era Is Here Gustav Söderström didn’t hedge. His most senior engineers “only generate code and supervise it.” They’ve gone from architects to inspectors — and he’s thrilled about it. ...