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Spotify's co-CEO Gustav Söderström said something on their earnings call that should make every professional pay attention:
"Our best developers have not written a single line of code since December."
Not junior devs. Their best ones. Instead, they're using an internal AI system called "Honk" (built on Claude) that lets engineers fix bugs and ship features from their phone on the morning commute — before they even get to the office. The AI writes the code, the engineer reviews it, and it gets pushed to production.
The result? Spotify shipped over 50 new features last year and called 2026 the "Year of Raising Ambition."
Here's what most people miss: This isn't about coding. It's about a fundamental shift in what "skilled work" means. The most valuable person in the room isn't the one who can do the task — it's the one who can direct AI to do it faster and better. That applies to writing, analysis, design, strategy, and basically every knowledge job.
The skill that's becoming worth the most money isn't doing the work. It's knowing how to describe the work clearly enough that AI can do it for you.
Quick Stat
Unemployment among new CS graduates is 6.1% — higher than the 4.8% average for all recent grads. The entry-level coding jobs are disappearing. The AI-directing jobs are multiplying.
Prompt of the Day
Category: Writing
Use this to turn rough notes into a polished LinkedIn post:
Here are my rough thoughts on [topic]:
[paste your messy notes/ideas here]
Turn this into a LinkedIn post that:
- Opens with a hook that stops the scroll
- Uses short paragraphs (1-2 sentences each)
- Ends with a question to drive comments
- Sounds like me talking, not a corporate blog
- Is under 200 words
Example output (from the notes "had a bad meeting today, nobody was prepared, wasted an hour"):
I sat through a meeting today where nobody — including me — had read the pre-read.
60 minutes. 8 people. Zero decisions made.
That's $2,400 in salary for a conversation we could've had in Slack.
The fix isn't fewer meetings. It's showing up to the ones you have.
What's the worst meeting you've ever been in?
Try it today → Take that idea you've been sitting on and turn it into a post. Takes 2 minutes.
Bonus
Prompt tip: After AI writes your first draft, follow up with: "Make it sound less polished and more like I'm talking to a friend over coffee." That one line makes AI writing sound 10x more human.