I loved this memo from Tobi Lutke, particularly this bit:
Using AI effectively is now a fundamental expectation of everyone at Shopify. It’s a tool of all trades today, and will only grow in importance. Frankly, I don’t think it’s feasible to opt out of learning the skill of applying AI in your craft; you are welcome to try, but I want to be honest I cannot see this working out today, and definitely not tomorrow. Stagnation is almost certain, and stagnation is slow-motion failure. If you’re not climbing, you’re sliding.
and this this bit:
AI must be part of your GSD Prototype phase. The prototype phase of any GSD project should be dominated by AI exploration. Prototypes are meant for learning and creating information. AI dramatically accelerates this process. You can learn to produce something that other team mates can look at, use, and reason about in a fraction of the time it used to take.
GSD is a reference to Shopify’s product development process, which stands for “get shit done”. How can you not love that?
Great company, great product
Interestingly, both the earliest and most experienced engineers find tremendous value in using AI in their day-to-day, while mid-career stage engineers are more pessimistic.
Fantastically helpful framing
Nice. This is 100K more than what has traditionally been offered to startups, and should give founders more room to get their legs under them.
Poor connectivity. No toilet paper. Coming to an office for virtual meetings all day without proper space for meetings. I’ve worked through this a few times. Return to office (RTO) requires proper planning and sufficient resources. It’s a self-own to reduce the federal workforce to cut costs and increase efficiency while making it more difficult to work — we’re months away from people feeling government is getting worse at doing its job and serving the people locally. Not good.
It is shameful that these families are being hurt by misinformation, and we’re losing top scientists at the federal level because of its poor leadership.
A lot of good data to chew on
Super smart — I love the combination of math and ingenuity here.