Coding is Dead? Spotify Co-CEO Says Top Devs Now Use AI to Finish Work Before Reaching the Office.
Spotify Co-CEO Reveals Top Developers Haven’t Written a Single Line of Code Since December During Spotify’s Q4 2025 earnings call, Co-CEO Gustav Söderström provided a startling insight into how Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally reshaping the company’s engineering culture. When questioned about the impact of AI on software programming, Söderström revealed that Spotify’s "best developers" have shifted entirely away from manual coding. The Era of the "Prompt Engineer" Söderström shared that since December 2025, many of the company's elite engineers have not written a single line of code by hand. Instead, they have transitioned into high-level orchestrators of AI. To illustrate this shift, he highlighted a new workflow where developers use Claude Code an advanced AI coding agent. Engineers are now seen managing complex deployments via Slack on their mobile devices while commuting. By the time they arrive at the office, the tasks have often been completed...