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Presentation: Rewriting All of Spotify's Code Base, All the Time
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Spotify built an AI coding agent called Honk to automate fleet-wide codebase migrations across thousands of repositories, shifting the responsibility for adoption from individual teams to library owners.
For platform teams operating at scale, maintenance tasks like dependency upgrades consume engineering time that could go toward feature work. Spotify's model, inverting the typical adoption flow so library owners must migrate all consumers, changes how organizations can think about rollout responsibility and automation feasibility.
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Spotify's fleet management philosophy makes library owners responsible for migrating all consumers to new versions, rather than relying on individual teams to adopt changes voluntarily.
The system runs Kubernetes jobs that clone repositories, execute transformation scripts, and open pull requests automatically across thousands of codebases.
Changes that can be fully reasoned about or tested are auto-merged, removing humans from the review loop entirely for certain classes of migration.
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