Shopify's Best Engineers Stopped Writing Code

By 20VC

Categories: VC, Startup

Transcript Excerpt

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 lu...