1,500+ PRs Later: Spotify’s Journey with Our Background Coding Agent (Part 1)
Spotify EngineeringNovember 6, 2025
Why It Matters
Automating routine maintenance at scale reduces developer toil and technical debt. Spotify's success with 1,500+ merged PRs proves that AI agents can reliably handle complex code modifications, allowing engineers to focus on innovation rather than manual upkeep.
Key Takeaways
- •Spotify developed an AI-driven background coding agent to automate large-scale software maintenance tasks.
- •The agent has successfully merged over 1,500 pull requests, proving the scalability of AI-generated code changes.
- •It focuses on reducing developer toil by handling repetitive tasks like dependency updates and migrations.
- •The system operates autonomously to identify and resolve technical debt across a massive codebase.
- •This initiative shifts the engineering focus from routine upkeep to high-value feature development.
Keywords
AI coding agentsSoftware maintenanceAutomated pull requestsDeveloper productivityLarge-scale migrationsTechnical debtLLMs
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Thousands of merged AI-generated pull requests and the future of large-scale software maintenance.
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