AI CHANGED HOW SPOTIFY BUILDS: WHAT WE LEARNED AND FIXED ABOUT QUALITY AT HIGHER VELOCITY

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Spotify says merged changes more than doubled year over year to about 17,000 in August without a corresponding rise in rework or major incidents directly tied to AI-authored code. The pressure moved to verification capacity, prompting stronger review, rollout, observability, rollback, service prioritization, and quality metrics as larger pull requests and rising complexity remain warning signals.