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

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Spotify found no material direct link between AI-authored code and reviewed production incidents, but merged changes more than doubled year over year as verification systems struggled to keep pace. The response expands long-term quality signals and strengthens review, testing, rollout, observability, rollback, service tiering, and capacity.