I buy builders pizza to fuel their work 🍕Recruiting at Shopify since 2017 💚 Where’s the first place you posted on the internet? (forum for Neopets Guilds) ✨
Joined February 2012
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Insane launch from @Shopify today - our best Editions yet 👨🎨🎨 There's SO much to dig into, so here's your twitter guide if you want to nerd out...
Editions from all angles here:
@tobi & @vlaurenlee - birds eye product-wide view
@MParakhin - the engineering feats behind it all
@harleyf - how merchants can use it _today_
@Drewch - Sidekick's blistering pace of evolution
@carlrivera & @maggiefost - the design (and beauty) of today's launch
10 Dec 2025
Dropping today: RenAIssance Edition: 150 updates, with AI at the centre.
It's a lot of features so I'm giving you all my coles notes here.
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Conferences are the best because I get to talk to SO many people about the ways we're using ML to truly redefine how commerce is done. Who's gonna be there??
See you soon, Seoul 😍
Jun 12
🇰🇷 Here’s what’s on deck for us @icmlconf in Seoul next month:
Our Expo Talk on how we distill LLMs into smaller, faster, and more accurate models than their teachers. A live demo of Tangent, our autonomous ML pipeline research agent. A workshop on the generative turn in search and rec at 81M shopper scale. And booth presentations from every ML team at Shopify.
Come see what we’re building. 👇🏻
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Jun 11
Could not agree more with @saranormous.
Commerce is not a prompt.
Generic AI can write copy, generate images, or give plausible advice. But helping a merchant make the right call requires understanding the business down to the studs.
Inventory. Margins. Pricing. Customers. Payments. Fulfillment. Fraud. Returns. Taxes. Apps. Goals.
These are not thin wrappers. These are existential questions.
That’s Sidekick inside Shopify: 20 years of commerce insight, context, and trust.
Generic AI can sound right. Shopify can help merchants actually get it right.
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Jun 12
joining @Shopify as an Applied ML Engineering Intern on the Sidekick team this fall, out of Toronto
Sidekick, led by @Drewch, is Shopify’s AI co-founder for merchants. couldn’t think of a better place to work on AI that helps millions of merchants build and grow their businesses
big thanks to @alspee for being incredibly kind and helpful throughout the process, and to @Drewch for the conversations that made this possible
time to ship
every hero needs a sidekick :)
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ELATED to have something we can point to now when talking about building at Shopify _for_ Shopifolk
Quick is the perfect peek into our culture
Jun 10
Everyone's talking about AI-generated HTML.
But have you tried giving your sites a zero-config API for saving data, file storage, AI, websockets, etc?
We did this at Shopify. Runs on a single VM that costs $200/month, and it's changed the way we work.
We call it Quick 👇🧵
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great read 🙌
i give this advice anyone if they are early in their career. beyond helping you stand out, alli outlines a ton of reasons why this is important 🙇♀️
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Jun 7
Have been extensively testing Claude Workflows this weekend, with the best model possible. Threw it at my whole code base, combing for bugs. 144 found and fixed! Geez... It is a large code base, for sure, but 144?!! Some are very impactful, some are downright embarrassing...
Apr 3
I keep predicting software quality will improve. I keep being wrong. Models write better-than-average code, yet we use them to write more code - not better code
(shoutout to the unmovable, always-on-top Claude Code download and install window).
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Jun 5
My tiny culture thesis: The best proof of culture is the work people make when they don’t have to.
Yesterday, we celebrated the opening of Shopify’s new Design Studio in NYC with a Demo Night. I got to share a few examples of what that looks like in practice ↓
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Jun 5
Vercel is partnering with and integrating Shopify.
Starting with @v0, you can now prompt a Next.js Shopify store in seconds.
The old tradeoff was “easy monolith” or “costly headless”. No more. Easy @nextjs Shopify storefronts with no scale or sophistication ceiling.
You can now launch production-ready Shopify storefronts without leaving v0.
No setup needed, just install the integration and start prompting.
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hah yea we’ve used them at events for the past few years. Here’s the original prototype x.com/harleyf/status/1635730…
14 Mar 2023
At our Creator Mart in Austin this weekend we brought to life something called our “Shop Cash Wand”. It's a legit wand 🪄 that when we tap your phone you get a surprise amount of $$ to spend on @Shop on 100s of millions of products powered by @Shopify.
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thank you for the gift 💚
Jun 2
Shopify launched to the public 20 years ago today
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"you still have to go and get it..." so let's get it 🚀
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my best friends @lulumeservey and @tobi talking favourite colours and entrepreneurship
“if you say the second T in toronto you have to leave” @TOtechweek 🙂↕️🍁
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Boost!!! Wireless charger anyone?? 👀
May 27
Does anyone at toronto tech week homecoming have a wireless charger?
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