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After Shopify's stock dropped 80%, CEO Tobi Lütke rebuilt the compensation structure to let employees choose their mix of stock, RSUs, cash, and Shop Cash, adjusting quarterly.

Shopify shared 7 best practices on how to configure Claude Code to boost engineering productivity, including unifying the AI entry point, parallel agents, architecture review loop, MCP integration, permission control, etc., and noted that engineering time allocation has shifted from 70% execution to 70% strategy validation.

Shopify has launched an MCP server that enables agents to discover and order products across all its stores, opening up use cases like shopper agents and merchant research.

Jack Altman shares a quote emphasizing that building truly great products requires originality, and promotes his conversation with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, which also discusses Shopify's AI transition.

A conversation between @jaltma and Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke covering Shopify's AI transition, building products, and AI's impact on small businesses.

SimGym is a framework that simulates A/B tests on e-commerce storefronts using vision-language model agents, reducing experimental cycles from weeks to under an hour while achieving 77% directional alignment with real buyer behavior.

Gergely Orosz notes that his year-old interview with Shopify's Head of Engineering is still considered cutting-edge, highlighting how some companies stay ahead of industry trends.

ZipchatAI founder announces reaching $1M in earnings from the Shopify app store, a notable milestone for the team.

A tweet highlights the Shopify ecosystem as an underrated tech community with strong founder support and merchant feedback, recommending it as a prime market for SaaS builders.

Shopify's Head of Engineering Farhan Thawar shares a practical breakdown of enterprise AI coding and how to harness agents in 2026, with a full playbook available in the interview.

ShopGym is a framework that converts live e-commerce storefronts into self-contained sandbox shops for realistic, controllable, and reproducible benchmarking of web agents, with synthetic tasks across seven skill categories.

A conversation with Simon (sirupsen) about scaling Shopify, building turbopuffer, and the future of databases, covering engineering principles, AI coding, and hiring practices.

Fide is a Shopify app that allows merchants to display shoppable user-generated content (UGC) videos on their online stores.

Simon Willison highlights Shopify's internal AI coding agent 'River' described by CEO Tobias Lütke, emphasizing its public Slack-based workflow that fosters transparency and osmosis learning among developers.

Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke introduces River, an AI agent that operates exclusively in public Slack channels to facilitate code generation and knowledge sharing across the organization.

Tobi Lütke shares his perspective on leading Shopify, comparing his approach to that of a corporate raider turning around a bankrupt company.

Shopify CTO endorses hybrid Liquid-Transformer models as the best architecture currently available, with Microsoft executive discussing real-world use-cases.

MESA is a new tool for Shopify that automatically builds workflows based on user descriptions.

Tophat by Shopify is a tool that lets you test mobile CI builds on any device without building locally.

Shopify leverages ChatGPT and AI agents to enable non-developers to build tools independently, reducing reliance on engineering teams and accelerating internal process automation.