This is part 3 in our series about Spotify's journey with background coding agents (internal codename: “Honk”) and the future of large-scale software maintenance. See also , , and .
Background Coding Agents: Context Engineering (Honk, Part 2) | Spotify Engineering
This is part 2 in our series about Spotify's journey with background coding agents (internal codename: “Honk”) and the future of large-scale software maintenance. See also and .
1,500+ PRs Later: Spotify’s Journey with Our Background Coding Agent (Part 1) | Spotify Engineering
This is part 1 in our series about Spotify's journey with background coding agents and the future of large-scale software maintenance. See also and .
SlopTracker — Exposing AI-Generated Artists on Spotify
AI-generated artists are flooding Spotify, racking up millions of streams, and siphoning revenue from real musicians. See the receipts.
Cognition | Agent Trace: Capturing the Context Graph of Code
We’re excited to join in Cursor, Cloudflare, Vercel, git-ai, OpenCode and others in support of [Agent Trace](https://agent-trace.dev/). As described in the spec, Agent Trace is an open, vendor-neutral spec for recording AI contributions alongside human authorship in version-controlled codebases.
Mistral Vibe | AI coding agent for terminal, IDE by Mistral.
Agentic coding that understands your entire codebase. Build, test, and modernize autonomously.
Agent skill · Libraries.dev
Teach your coding agent Border beam, Thinking orbs, Gooey, Voice, Bot avatars, Liquid metal and Image.
Track, control, and optimize for AI agents and bots | Known Agents (formerly Dark Visitors)
Use Known Agents to turn the rising wave of AI agents, LLM assistants, and other bots crawling your website into a new growth channel for your business
Managing Agent Skills with Your Package Manager | pavel.pink
AI coding agents use skills — markdown files that teach them domain-specific tasks. We publish ours as conda packages and manage them with pixi, getting versioning, lockfiles, and supply chain security for free.
Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
Patterns for getting the best results out of coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. See my introduction for more on this project.
Vibe Coding Failures: Documented AI Code Incidents
A curated directory of real-world incidents where AI-generated code failed in production.
Soulless: List of AI Artists Hiding on Spotify
Soulless: AI music is stealing from real artists. AI music analyzer (open source).
Learn | Frontend Hire
AI writes the UI now. These tracks build the career it can't: frontend depth, product thinking, AI-powered building, and finding the work that pays for it.
I work, I think? - Annotated
How AI may quietly dismantle the feedback loop that turns inexperienced people into competent ones, and why my work matters to me.
AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder for Developers
AI handles writing code but leaves the hard work: investigation, context, validation. Why vibe coding has limits and AI assistance can backfire.
