Beccaneer

@beccaneer.bsky.social

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IT&Sec architect, history nerd, horse owner, cat lover Into sci-fi, games, slow travel, securing internet, autonomous houses, eco friendly living, nomadism Ashkenazi Jew Trans rights are human rights Women.Life.Freedom. Opinions own She/her

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Team, We are entering a time where more merchants and entrepreneurs could be created than any other in history. We often talk about bringing down the complexity curve to allow more people to choose this as a career. Each step along the entrepreneurial path is rife with decisions requiring skill, judgement and knowledge. Having Al alongside the journey and increasingly doing not just the consultation, but also doing the work for our merchants is a mindblowing step function change here. Our task here at Shopify is to make our software unquestionably the best canvas on which to develop the best businesses of the future. We do this by keeping everyone cutting edge and bringing all the best tools to bear so our merchants can be more successful than they themselves used to imagine. For that we need to be absolutely ahead. Reflexive Al usage is now a baseline expectation at Shopify Maybe you are already there and find this memo puzzling. In that case you already use Al as a thought partner, deep researcher, critic, tutor, or pair programmer. I use it all the time, but even I feel I'm only scratching the surface. It's the most rapid shift to how work is done that I've seen in my career and I've been pretty clear about my enthusiasm for it: you've heard me talk about Al in weekly videos, podcasts, town halls, and... Summit! Last summer I used agents to create my talk, and presented about that. I did this as a call to action and invitation for everyone to
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