Spotify Engineers Stopped Writing Code
Spotify Engineers Stopped Writing Code  
Podcast: The Daily AI Show
Published On: Fri Feb 13 2026
Description: Friday’s episode moved quickly across real-world AI acceleration. The show opened with Spotify confirming its top engineers have not written code by hand in months, reinforcing how fast AI coding has gone mainstream. From there, the conversation turned to Gemini 3.0 Deep Think’s major benchmark leap, new neuron-powered biological computing startups, ultra-fast coding models like Codex Spark, and the rapid growth of Chinese open models. The throughline was clear, capability is compounding across software, hardware, and biology at the same time.Key Points Discussed00:00:00 👋 Opening, Friday the 13th kickoff00:01:10 🎧 Spotify says top engineers haven’t handwritten code since December00:05:30 🤖 Dario Amodei prediction revisited, AI writing most code00:08:40 📊 Gemini 3.0 Deep Think hits 85% on ARC-AGI-200:13:20 🧠 Aletheia research agent, proof verification and math reasoning00:17:40 ⚡ Codex Spark, 1,000 tokens per second and real-time coding00:23:10 🔄 Multi-model workflows, Spark vs larger reasoning models00:28:20 🧩 Model routing frustrations, Gemini and PRD over-generation00:33:10 🧬 Biological Computing Company, neuron-powered AI hardware00:38:00 💰 Anthropic funding round, $350B valuation and $14B run rate00:42:10 🇨🇳 GLM-V and Minimax-V, Chinese open models surge00:47:20 📈 Claude Code ARR hits $2.5B00:50:40 🧠 AI intensifies work, Berkeley study reflection00:54:30 💵 What $30B actually means in human terms00:57:20 🏁 Weekend wrap-up, Conundrum preview, newsletter reminderThe Daily AI Show Co Hosts: Brian Maucere, Andy Halliday, and Beth Lyons