Presentation: Rewriting All of Spotify's Code Base, All the Time

Aleksandar Mitic: I'm Alex, this is Jo. This is our talk, "Rewriting All of Spotify's Codebase All the Time". We're here to tell you about our background coding agent that helps us do exactly this. Everyone meet Honk. Honk helps us rewrite all of our code. Honk is already much more famous than I'll ever be. It's been mentioned in the billboard, papers. We'll tell you the story about how this started, what we learned developing it, and where we are now. We'll rewind time back slightly more than a year ago, beginning of last year. This journey started with us trying to solve what we call the maintenance problem. I'll explain in more detail what this is, but before that, a statement. Developers code for more than one hour per day. Do you think this is true? Developers on average code for more than one hour per day. I'm sorry to say you're all wrong. We see in data from the industry, but also internally, that on average, developers spend less than one hour writing code. This number might be slightly different now. With all the tools we have, it's gotten even more fun for people to code. The…