What the Dev?
What the Dev? is a podcast by the SD Times editorial team. We cover the biggest and newest topics in software development.
What the Dev?
331: How Spotify created its own AI tool, AiKA, to improve developer productivity (with Spotify's Pia Nilsson)
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In this episode, Jenna interviews Pia Nilsson, senior director of engineering at Spotify, about the company's decision to make its own AI tool to improve developer productivity.
They discuss:
- Why they built their own tool instead of using something that already exists
- How developers are using it day-to-day
- How AI is shaping developer culture at Spotify
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