Emanuele Cantalini

What happens when designers, PMs, and ops teams start shipping software themselves? @Musixmatch — the company powering lyrics on Spotify, Apple Music, and Google — found out firsthand. Faced with six-month product cycles and a growing backlog of ideas that never shipped, they turned to Replit. In roughly two months, they went from concept to a live artist merch tool — with 1,000+ T-shirts already shipped and a brand-new revenue stream to show for it. Watch the full Musixmatch story to see what's possible when everyone in your org can build.

Software development is undergoing a renaissance in front of our eyes. If you haven't used the tools recently, you likely are underestimating what you're missing. Since December, there's been a step function improvement in what tools like Codex can do. Some great engineers at OpenAI yesterday told me that their job has fundamentally changed since December. Prior to then, they could use Codex for unit tests; now it writes essentially all the code and does a great deal of their operations and debugging. Not everyone has yet made that leap, but it's usually because of factors besides the capability of the model. Every company faces the same opportunity now, and navigating it well — just like with cloud computing or the Internet — requires careful thought. This post shares how OpenAI is currently approaching retooling our teams towards agentic software development. We're still learning and iterating, but here's how we're thinking about it right now: As a first step, by March 31st, we're aiming that: (1) For any technical task, the tool of first resort for humans is interacting with an agent rather than using an editor or terminal. (2) The default way humans utilize agents is explicitly evaluated as safe, but also productive enough that most workflows do not need additional permissions. In order to get there, here's what we recommended to the team a few weeks ago: 1. Take the time to try out the tools. The tools do sell themselves — many people have had amazing experiences with 5.2 in Codex, after having churned from codex web a few months ago. But many people are also so busy they haven't had a chance to try Codex yet or got stuck thinking "is there any way it could do X" rather than just trying. - Designate an "agents captain" for your team — the primary person responsible for thinking about how agents can be brought into the teams' workflow. - Share experiences or questions in a few designated internal channels - Take a day for a company-wide Codex hackathon 2. Create skills and AGENTS[.md]. - Create and maintain an AGENTS[.md] for any project you work on; update the AGENTS[.md] whenever the agent does something wrong or struggles with a task. - Write skills for anything that you get Codex to do, and commit it to the skills directory in a shared repository 3. Inventory and make accessible any internal tools. - Maintain a list of tools that your team relies on, and make sure someone takes point on making it agent-accessible (such as via a CLI or MCP server). 4. Structure codebases to be agent-first. With the models changing so fast, this is still somewhat untrodden ground, and will require some exploration. - Write tests which are quick to run, and create high-quality interfaces between components. 5. Say no to slop. Managing AI generated code at scale is an emerging problem, and will require new processes and conventions to keep code quality high - Ensure that some human is accountable for any code that gets merged. As a code reviewer, maintain at least the same bar as you would for human-written code, and make sure the author understands what they're submitting. 6. Work on basic infra. There's a lot of room for everyone to build basic infrastructure, which can be guided by internal user feedback. The core tools are getting a lot better and more usable, but there's a lot of infrastructure that currently go around the tools, such as observability, tracking not just the committed code but the agent trajectories that led to them, and central management of the tools that agents are able to use. Overall, adopting tools like Codex is not just a technical but also a deep cultural change, with a lot of downstream implications to figure out. We encourage every manager to drive this with their team, and to think through other action items — for example, per item 5 above, what else can prevent a lot of "functionally-correct but poorly-maintainable code" from creeping into codebases.

Spotify upgrades its lyrics feature with offline access, more translations techcrunch.com/2026/02/04/spo…

Lyrics, front and center. Translations, worldwide. Spotify’s new lyrics experience is powered by Musixmatch. Want your fans to see your lyrics in real time on Spotify? Musixmatch Pro 👉 musixmatch.com/pro

Now generally available: the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Built & operated in Europe, designed to help you innovate and grow while maintaining digital sovereignty.

We have added more than $1B of ARR in the last month just from our API business. People think of us mostly as ChatGPT, but the API team is doing amazing work!

Remotion now has Agent Skills - make videos just with Claude Code! $ npx skills add remotion-dev/skills This animation was created just by prompting 👇

Lyrics are cultural data. And they show how the emotional tone of music is evolving. Proud to see Musixmatch analysis featured by The Economist to help decode why pop music is sounding more introspective, vulnerable, and real.

WHOOP x SCUDERI FERRARI 🔥 This one is personally very exciting for me. Starting in the 2026 season, @whoop will partner with @ScuderiaFerrari as the Official Health and Fitness Wearable Partner and Team Partner. Ferrari is one of the most iconic performance organizations in the world. For years, I’ve said that our ambition at Whoop is to build the Ferrari of health wearables. I’m proud to bring our brands together. What excites me most is that this goes far beyond a logo on a car. Whoop will be used across the entire team, and our Performance Science group, led by Dr Kristen Holmes PhD, will work directly with the medical staff supporting Scuderia Ferrari HP to advance our understanding of fitness and recovery in one of the most demanding environments in sport. We’re honored to work with a partner that takes performance as seriously as we do. Onwards 👊🏼

.@MichaelArnaldi wrote that software development is dead. He's right about a lot of things. But he's missing something critical. I wrote a response 👇 🧵

Rules, commands, MCP servers, subagents, modes, hooks, skills... There's a lot of stuff! And tbh it's a little confusing. Here's what you need to know (and how we got here).

Lyrics go beyond the song. They deepen connection, engagement, and discovery. Our Co-President, Rio Caraeff, will be speaking at Music:ally Connect 2026 on: “More Than Words: How Lyrics Amplify the Streaming Experience.” 📍 London 📅 22–23 January 2026 #MusicAllyConnect

We’re testing something that I’m very excited about - giving users literal control of the algorithm, using just the English language. You can write, iterate, tune and schedule your own unique playlist algorithm by writing a prompt, using any world information as well as all your own play history and data, like for example: ”Give me all the tracks that are trending in TV-shows right now, tell me which show and specific episode they are from, filter them by my taste and show only tracks that I’ve never listened to before. ” and then schedule it to update daily or weekly. It’s a lot of fun!

I don’t even want to think about how far artificial intelligence will go in a few years

Campioni del mondo! Un sogno incredibile diventato realtà. La settimana più bella della mia vita 💙🇮🇹 @DavisCup @federtennis

Introducing Gemini 3 ✨ It’s the best model in the world for multimodal understanding, and our most powerful agentic + vibe coding model yet. Gemini 3 can bring any idea to life, quickly grasping context and intent so you can get what you need with less prompting.  Find Gemini 3 Pro rolling out today in the @Geminiapp and AI Mode in Search. For developers, build with it now in @GoogleAIStudio and Vertex AI.  Excited for you to try it!

Hello Music Lens. The first Music Ai Agent Powered by @Musixmatch

Today we celebrate a major milestone. MBW has featured Music Lens — the first Music AI Agent that respects music. Built for the industry, Music Lens turns music data into intelligence using one of the largest ethically licensed datasets (100M+ works). lens.musixmatch.com

This new @Spotify lyric translate feature is absolute🔥 Thanks @eldsjal

E ANDIAMO LORENZOOOO! 🔥 Una partita combattutissima contro un De Minaur nella sua forma migliore! Con le ultime energie Lorenzo vince il match: ora dovrà vedersela con Carlos Alcaraz! 💪🎾 #NittoATPFinals #Tennis #Musetti #DeMinaur