Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
What's going on, everybody?
Chapter 2: Why haven't Spotify's top engineers written code by hand recently?
Thanks for joining the Daily AI Show Live. It is Friday the 13th, February 13th, 2026. And with me today is Andy and Beth and I'm Brian. And we are here to hang out with you on a Friday to talk about all the things in AI that go bump in the night. to go along with our Friday the 13th theme here. Not really, we don't really have a theme, but we'll go with it.
And yeah, usually we kick off with a little bit of news.
Chapter 3: What advancements have been made with Gemini 3.0 Deep Think?
And actually in this particular case, Andy and I were just talking right before we went live. There's actually a couple of things that came out since yesterday show, Beth and Andy, I know Carl was on it as well. I wasn't able to be on it. But I was just stress testing them against Andy.
Chapter 4: How does the Aletheia research agent work for proof verification?
And I was like, did you talk about this? Did you talk about this? So we can kind of bring up some of those topics. I don't necessarily need to be the one that leads it.
Chapter 5: What is Codex Spark and how does it enhance coding speed?
But you know, maybe one that I felt that was I'll tell you what, I'll pick the one that is probably like you guys probably would least pick and then I'll bounce it to you guys. So the one I saw really quick is just kind of more of what we've seen before and that it's from TechCrunch. And it says Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December.
Yeah.
It's not like the writing's on the wall.
Chapter 6: What are the challenges with multi-model workflows?
The writing's all over the code. It's like these are the things that are happening. We have heard OpenAI say our own AI writes AI. We've heard Anthropic say it. Now we're seeing other businesses say, yep, that is a fact. We're not writing code. And Dario Amodi came out and said, you know, oh, no, I'm sorry. I take that back. And NVIDIA said,
Jensen Wong said, I don't want anybody writing code unless it has to be done.
Chapter 7: How is biological computing evolving in AI hardware?
You should always be using AI for the most efficient. So we see this again and again. It's not like it's some huge thing, but it says that has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify, at least. This is from TechCrunch, which shared this week that its fourth quarter earnings call, what I just told you.
Chapter 8: What does the recent funding round for Anthropic signify for AI development?
Of note, Spotify pointed out it shipped more than 50 new features and changes to its streaming app, 3.20.25. and most recently has rolled out more features like AI-powered prompted playlists, page match, audiobooks, and About This Song. I haven't seen that one. That's cool. Which all launched within the past few weeks.
As a very, very frequent Spotify user, and also one of the biggest platforms we go out on for this show is Spotify, just through the podcast side of it. I don't know what my total hours are every year, but it's... It's a lot. I listen to a lot of music while I work. I'm that guy. I don't work in silence. So I'm always listening to Spotify.
And I would say just from my end of one, I have definitely seen a lot of new features pop up. And I love that. I love that they're really testing things. I love that they seem to have this more of a Google-type, sort of like a Skunkworks. It's like, ah, throw it up. See if people like it. And because the lift on doing the coding now is probably so cheap for them, There's really no downside.
It's like, yeah, throw out an about this song. You'll know pretty quickly through the analytics whether that's resonating with your base users. And if it is, double down on it. Make it better. But in the past, that might have been a good idea on a whiteboard and it gets pushed and pushed and pushed to the right because the coders go, I mean, we love it.
But then you get the experts in the room and they go, that would take us... 60 man hours to get out the door potentially. And then they go, ah, it's a good idea. It's not that good of idea. Now I think you're just seeing these companies like Spotify that are going, hey, this is no longer a barrier to entry.
We can now throw more ideas up faster and iterate quicker and just leave it up to the users to decide what they really do like and don't. I don't know what about this song is, but if it's like the history of the song, I'm going to lose more productive hours in my day because I like the nerd on, on, The history of songs.
I was the kid that read the linear notes and stuff like that within, not albums, CDs. But I love the good CD book. If I opened up a brand new CD and I could read through all that and learn a little bit about the background of the song. I love... What is it? Genius lyrics. I just... So that's embedded inside of Spotify. That sounds great to me.
So anyway, just wanted to start off with that new story because... It's not just Spotify. It's going to be a lot of companies. And this could ultimately be good for the consumer, I think.
Yeah, I feel like what you said could be a fill in the blank. Company name says their top engineers haven't written handwritten code since insert time reference, right?
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