Tobi Lütke: AI Agents, Better Decisions, and the Future of Work

Sep 15, 2026 · 1h 6m · YouTube

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0:02You cannot make things better and better by adding stuff.

0:05You can't.

0:06You must prune.

0:07You must rebuild.

0:08You must create an end for things.

0:16Toby, welcome back.

0:18Shane, it's so good to be back.

0:19I'm glad you're doing this again.

0:20How are you using AI internally at Shopify?

0:23We find some ways for it to be supportive now.

0:25It's actually, look, when have we recorded last time?

0:30Oh, we recorded like two, three years ago.

0:32Yeah, so 100 years of internet.

0:35Yeah.

0:35Like, look, I'm a 10 out of 10 nerd.

0:37I cannot bear the idea of somehow not being at the forefront of a technology shift.

0:44I live for these things.

0:45Anyone growing up reading sci-fi books wanted to live.

0:50My take from sci-fi books I read was like, I wanted to live in that world.

0:53Like, how can I accelerate us there?

0:56Even in whatever minor steps we can get there.

0:59So inside of Shopify, the amount of people I know who really write code is vanishingly small now.

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