Recently @tobi shared the philosophy behind River, our Slack-native AI agent, and how it has become a teaching workshop for all of @Shopify. Below River lies the Aquifer. Principal Engineers @burkelibbey & Javier Moreno share the engineering story of how River came to be, and the substrate it runs on:

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Software Engineers going back to Documentation after reaching their Claude limit.

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Jim Cramer asked Jensens why companies are laying people off if AI is supposed to make everyone MORE productive. Jensen's answer: "For companies with imagination, you will do more with more. For companies where the leadership is just out of ideas, they have nothing else to do. They have no reason to imagine greater than they are. When they have more capability, they don't do more."

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Total global Black Friday Cyber Monday sales by Shopify merchants over the last 5 years: 2021 - $6.3B 2022 - $7.5B 2023 - $9.3B 2024 - $11.5B 2025 - $14.6B @Shopify merchants showed up.

the Live Globe is back but with a twist it’s in a pinball machine and you can actually play ➡️ every arc is an order ➡️ every burst of confetti is a first sale when merchants hit milestones, you unlock surprises tinker around. there’s more than meets the globe

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I can't believe I have to say this, but no matter how you feel about an organisation's decision:- - Don't take anger out on messengers - Don't send death threats - Don't threaten an office - Remember that staff are people (and many are users, just like you) and doing their best