“the volume of change increased faster than some of our verification controls could adapt.”

— Tyson Singer, Spotify · What the data tells us

Quote · engineering.atspotify.com

From “AI Changed How Spotify Builds. What We Learned (and Fixed) About Quality at Higher Velocity”, found 2026-10-14.

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Merged changes more than doubled in a year, from about 8,100 to 17,000 a month. Spotify did not find AI-written code to be a material direct cause of incidents. The risk was the volume.