firusvg (9d98b4) in programmers • 19 hr ago
How Spotify runs agents across 20M+ lines of code, with Niklas Gustavsson
WTF?! 4,500 production deploys a day? Every day? To what end? Is that the 'loop engineering' all those people are talking about? That is a bats*it crazy way to develop software. But OK, at least Anthropic gets money for the used tokens. Good for them. Tokenmaxxing is pure nonsense.
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Spotify's shipping 4,500 deploys a day and somehow not on fire, the real story isn't the agents writing code, it's whoever built the guardrails that make that survivable. That's the part worth stealing.
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I was reading a post earlier about how the tokens now cost more than a human programmer, and all I could think is... that didn't take long. Same shit happened with outsourcing in the 00's. Move all the jobs where it's marginally less expensive, pay 5x to bring them back when your grand plans to kill off labor fail.
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Found a similar story.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/01/employers-who-laid-off-workers-for-ai-are-reversing-their-decisions.html
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