It’s not that they’ve stopped working. Instead, through a combination of Claude Code and Spotify’s specialized internal system Honk, engineers can now develop new features simply through Slack.
“As a concrete example, an engineer at Spotify on their morning commute from Slack on their cell phone can tell Claude to fix a bug or add a new feature to the iOS app,” Söderström told analysts on the company’s Feb.10 earnings call.
“And once Claude finishes that work, the engineer then gets a new version of the app, pushed to them on Slack on their phone, so that he can then merge it to production, all before they even arrive at the office.”
Söderström said the new AI-fueled developments—which he traced to the December release of Antropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 within Claude Code—are “just the beginning” in how it will deploy these tools to build new features.
The company has been on a big push of new user tools, adding more than 50 new features in 2025, most of which launched in the past few weeks. Söderström credits the combination of Claude Code and Honk with “speeding us up tremendously,” noting that it’s changed how developers operate.
“Certainly [before AI tools,] I spent my entire vacation coding rather than being on holiday, and I think most people in tech did,” Söderström said regarding the release.