AI agents are transforming the way we build — and even how we think of ourselves as software developers. Both Spotify and Anthropic have been exploring what this shift means in practice, and on March 30, we got together at Spotify's London HQ to share what we're learning.

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Spotify and Anthropic held a fireside chat at Spotify's London HQ discussing agentic-first software development at enterprise scale. Key topics include Spotify's Slack-native coding agent 'Honk' (powered by Claude) that can perform complex migrations across thousands of repos, the inflection point caused by a Claude model release in late 2025, context engineering strategies for scaling AI agents, and governance challenges around agent-generated code. The conversation also covers Backstage evolving into an agent-first platform with MCP connections, and the future of agents handling the full software lifecycle beyond just code generation.

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