Shopify's Best Engineers Stopped Writing Code
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#shopify #ai #tech
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Many of our best engineers have not written code this year. What percent of code today at Shopify is AI generated? >> It's a fair deal over 50%. It's converting to much higher numbers. I don't think we've updated public numbers there, but like many of our best engineers have not written code this year, ever since December. Like December changed everything. Opus changed everything. If you're building a large-scale AI system, like we have one which Code River, which lives in Slack and does some ludicrous amount of Shopify's engineering now. People just talk to it over Slack with people steering her to public Slack channels, which is awesome because then everyone learns with us.…