Spotify Engineering Blog

SpotifyApr 6, 2026

Let’s Talk Agentic Development: Spotify x Anthropic Live

Spotify and Anthropic collaborated on a live fireside chat to discuss agentic-first development and its implications on software development at scale. Key highlights include Spotify's background coding agent, Honk, which uses Anthropic's Claude to perform complex software migrations across thousands of repositories. The conversation also touched on context management, accountability, and the need for agents to take on the full software lifecycle, including maintenance and deletion. Spotify's experience with Honk shows that agents can significantly change the way developers work, with some even @mentioning agents on Slack to solve problems. Anthropic's David Soria Parra notes that the shift to agentic-first development has been profound, with people transitioning from using Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) to terminals. Anthropic's Christian Ryan emphasizes the importance of standardizing ecosystems and orchestrating Claude across thousands of repositories, suggesting that having a simple, reproducible setup is key to giving agents the right context at enterprise scale.

MusicScale

1 min

Latest Articles

Coding Is No Longer the Constraint: Scaling Developer Experience to Teams and Agents at Spotify

Better Experiments with LLM Evals — A funnel, not a fork

Building a Natural Language Interface to the Spotify Ads API with Claude Code Plugins

Background Coding Agents: Supercharging Downstream Consumer Dataset Migrations (Honk, Part 4)

Let’s Talk Agentic Development: Spotify x Anthropic Live

Inside the Archive: The Tech Behind Your 2025 Wrapped Highlights

Our Multi-Agent Architecture for Smarter Advertising

How We Release the Spotify App: A Look Under the Hood (Part 2)

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Spotify FOSS Fund

Why We Use Separate Tech Stacks for Personalization and Experimentation

Spotify Engineering Blog

Latest Articles

Coding Is No Longer the Constraint: Scaling Developer Experience to Teams and Agents at Spotify

Better Experiments with LLM Evals — A funnel, not a fork

Building a Natural Language Interface to the Spotify Ads API with Claude Code Plugins

Background Coding Agents: Supercharging Downstream Consumer Dataset Migrations (Honk, Part 4)

Let’s Talk Agentic Development: Spotify x Anthropic Live

Inside the Archive: The Tech Behind Your 2025 Wrapped Highlights

Our Multi-Agent Architecture for Smarter Advertising

How We Release the Spotify App: A Look Under the Hood (Part 2)

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Spotify FOSS Fund

Why We Use Separate Tech Stacks for Personalization and Experimentation