Presentation: Rewriting All of Spotify's Code Base, All the Time
Not a pilot. Spotify deployed an AI agent across thousands of repositories to rewrite its entire codebase automatically.
Why it matters
Honk is a production agent system handling fleet-wide infrastructure migrations at scale — a concrete example of how autonomous AI is reshaping enterprise engineering workflows and the architectural patterns required to make agents reliable in high-stakes CI/CD contexts.
The key facts
7 to knowSpotify built 'Honk,' an AI coding agent for codebase migrations
Agent handles complex fleet-wide migrations across thousands of repositories
Key architecture: decoupled CI verification runtimes from AI agents
Solved automated pull request bottlenecks
Drives aggressive standardization across engineering repos
Production deployment at scale (not pilot)
Presenters: Jo Kelly-Fenton and Aleksandar Mitic from Spotify
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Publisher excerpt: Jo Kelly-Fenton and Aleksandar Mitic explain how Spotify created "Honk," an AI coding agent, to handle complex fleet-wide codebase migrations. They share key architectural insights on decoupling CI verification runtimes from AI agents, dealing with automated pull request bottlenecks, and driving…