Spotify Engineers Stopped Writing Code

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Friday’s episode moved quickly across real-world AI acceleration. The show opened with Spotify confirming its top engineers have not written code by hand in months, reinforcing how fast AI coding has gone mainstream. From there, the conversation turned to Gemini 3.0 Deep Think’s major benchmark leap, new neuron-powered biological computing startups, ultra-fast coding models like Codex Spark, and the rapid growth of Chinese open models. The throughline was clear, capability is compounding across software, hardware, and biology at the same time. Key Points Discussed 00:00:00 👋 Opening, Friday the 13th kickoff 00:01:10 🎧 Spotify says top engineers haven’t handwritten code since December 00:05:30 🤖 Dario Amodei prediction revisited, AI writing most code 00:08:40 📊 Gemini 3.0 Deep Think hits 85% on ARC-AGI-2 00:13:20 🧠 Aletheia research agent, proof verification and math reasoning 00:17:40 ⚡ Codex Spark, 1,000 tokens per second and real-time coding 00:23:10 🔄 Multi-model workflows, Spark vs larger reasoning models 00:28:20 🧩 Model routing frustrations, Gemini and PRD over-generation 00:33:10 🧬 Biological Computing Company, neuron-powered AI hardware 00:38:00 💰 Anthropic funding round, $350B valuation and $14B run rate 00:42:10 🇨🇳 GLM-V and Minimax-V, Chinese open models surge 00:47:20 📈 Claude Code ARR hits $2.5B 00:50:40 🧠 AI intensifies work, Berkeley study reflection 00:54:30 💵 What $30B actually means in human terms 00:57:20 🏁 Weekend wrap-up, Conundrum preview, newsletter reminder The Daily AI Show Co Hosts: Brian Maucere, Andy Halliday, and Beth Lyons