How Spotify runs agents across 20M+ lines of code, with Niklas Gustavsson

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

June 29, 2026

Duration

26m

Channel

Claude

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

At Spotify, anyone can describe an idea and have Claude build a working prototype in their real apps in an hour or two. VP of Engineering Niklas Gustavsson walked us through it. Claude Cowork: anthropic.com/product/claude-cowork Claude Code: anthropic.com/product/claude-code

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Niklas Gustavsson

  guest

  Spotify engineering leader focused on developer productivity/automation, operating large-scale agent workflows and internal tooling across a 20M+ LOC codebase.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Claude, featuring Niklas Gustavsson, How Spotify runs agents across 20M+ lines of code, with Niklas Gustavsson explores spotify scales agentic coding and verification across massive monorepos Spotify built agent-driven automation because its codebase grew far faster than its engineering headcount, making manual migrations and maintenance unsustainably slow.

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