“This year, an automated dependency upgrade passed our checks, but still failed in production, impacting end users. We are responding by strengthening safeguards, expanding rollback capacity, and scheduling automated changes during owning teams’ working hours.”
Quote · engineering.atspotify.com
From “AI Changed How Spotify Builds. What We Learned (and Fixed) About Quality at Higher Velocity”, found 2026-10-14.
Scheduling as a mitigation: when automated changes land is tied to when the humans who own the code are around to catch a failure.