When Senior Developers Stop Writing Code by Hand
This post is inspired by the episode, New AI Models: Sonnet 4.6 and Grok 4.20 of the AI Daily Brief. Here’s how it connects to Superintelligent:
- Spotify Developers Stopped Writing Code: Pain Points: Workforce Productivity, AI Adoption SI Connection: Strong Spotify CEO says their top developers have not written a single line of code since December. One dev gives Claude instructions over Slack on the morning commute and code ships before arrival. Key Data Point: Spotify co-CEO confirmed senior engineers stopped writing code by hand.
Spotify's co-CEO dropped a statement that captures exactly where enterprise software development is heading: their top developers haven't written a single line of code since December. One senior engineer gives Claude instructions over Slack during the morning commute, and the code ships before they arrive at the office.
This isn't a preview of what's coming to software development. It's what's already happening at companies that figured out how to leverage Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Grok 4.20 effectively.
The question for every tech organization is whether they're preparing their development teams for this transition or pretending it won't happen to them.
This post is based on New AI Models: Sonnet 4.6 and Grok 4.20 from AI Daily Brief.
