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"Hire smart people and get out of their way" is some of the worst management advice in tech. Hire smart people and get in their shit. Build trust. Work through hard problems together. Create alignment.
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10 November 2025
From one piece Tobi Lütke x Carl Rivera: Designing For Ambition (Context, Shopify) 11 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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can we bring that quality of software to a level where it's actually worth paying for? Like, it's actually worth choosing to not build it for yourself using some vibe code tool.
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we should double down on making them be 10 out of 10 experiences. And then I think a lot of our experiences can be vibe-coded 7 out of 10 things that use good component systems, are usable, but that you don't really even need to have a designer involved in them.
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Shopify should not spread its design effort thinly and evenly across everything it makes.Their words
I think that Shopify should not peanut butter its efforts around design.
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It is extremely difficult to know what the world will look like six months or a year from now.Their words
It turns out it's extremely difficult to know what the world is going to look like 6 months from now or a year from now.
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Design work should aim at the very long term and the very short term and cut out everything in the middle.Their words
I'm basically working on this assumption that we should work on the very long term and the very short term and cut out everything in the middle.
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Software that acts for merchants will shift the merchant's role from something like an administrator to an editor.Their words
it will shift the role of the merchant from being an administrator of sorts to being an editor
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the right form factor of AI will be when we stop thinking so much about AI. Like, it's just there. It's just how computers work. It's not a mode you go into.
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what I hope we will get to is a world where we don't have to choose a modality so much upfront, where the way that you can move between imperative and declarative interfaces, chat and point-and-click, voice, you can shift in and out of them in a very, very fluid way.
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I have this view that we're in this period where all lines are blurring, and it involves how we do work. So designers need to think more and behave more like engineers and can also do more engineering-like work. And we have engineers and product leaders that can actually produce a lot of good design.
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I really think that how we do work immediately defines the work that we put out. Like, we cannot produce AI-first interfaces if AI isn't in a very big way influencing how we create them.
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when you're heading into a future that feels like it's covered in the clouds, there's no better tool to imagine it than through design. Because design has this magical capability of bringing everyone in on the same version of the future.
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