Tobias Lütke
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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Personal agents will act as a kind of structural subsidy for product quality.
Great read from Patrick, as always. “Personal agents will, I think, act as a kind of structural subsidy for product quality.” Yes, and well put.
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Governments cannot provide services for free.
It’s impossible to make something free for a government. I wish we would ban the use of that word.
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Great read from Patrick, as always. “Personal agents will, I think, act as a kind of structural subsidy for product quality.” Yes, and well put.
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She’s saying she will take some people’s money to pay for this. The incentive is to buy votes, not make things better.
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Governments cannot provide services for free.Their words
It’s impossible to make something free for a government. I wish we would ban the use of that word.
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My bet? Sometime soon someone will (or has already?) create a embeddable, sqlite style mini execution environment that parses bash, typescript, or tool calls into a common IL execution plan that's easy to security check before executing. And design this specifically for durable execution environments.
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Without an execution environment, LLMs cannot properly act on their understanding of how to forward evolve a system.Their words
LLMs understand the concept of forward evolving a system to solve a need very well. This comes from the agentic RL. They understand how to change the state of a codebase or acquire data from databases and then operate on it similarly to humans. But without an execution environment, they actually cannot do this properly.
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Code should be accepted based on its merit and accountability for it should be assigned.Their words
Accept code on merit and ensure that a person takes accountability for it. Doesn’t matter if it was typed, chiseled, generated, or bit-flipped via magnetized needle on a chip. If it’s good, it’s good. If it’s slop, it’s slop.
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We are living in the presence of super intelligence our entire lives.
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you can't have a company that's led by machines because they have no like no one has recourse they can't go to jail for doing something wrong
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Collaborative multiplayer software is the future.Their words
I think collaborative multiplayer software is the future.
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Now um of of of lazy work is not lack of output. It's actually over output.
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The ideal environment for decisions is a human-in-the-loop decision surface, not a machine that makes the call.Their words
Creating human invaloop decision surfaces is uh a way to I think describe the ideal environment.
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Machines can't take responsibility. And I think this is actually probably most overlooked thing in the entire um uh stack. Humans take responsibility. machines can help us um take more responsibility because they can inform us better.
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the earliest chatbot that was really actually fantastic wasn't chat GPT but actually Sydney which was powered by Bing
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the moment he was out of the picture, everything became flat, right? And we lost sort of even uh shadows and verticality and so on. It looked potentially better design ages but like we lost the analogy. Okay. So I think this was a mistake.
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This matters I think because we we we we discard great lessons and have to rediscover them over and over and over again.
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The Lessons of HistoryTheir words
I almost always will mention the lessons of history which is I just think the densest like the highest token quality book in existence like given for the length
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The MachiavelliansTheir words
He wrote um the managerial revolution first and then a book called the Macavalians which is unbelievably good.
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The Managerial RevolutionTheir words
James Bernham's books are fantastic I think um um and extremely relevant.
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MeditationsTheir words
I mean obviously I am a meditations fan. I know stoicism is falling out of favor a little bit right now but like it's been um a lifelong thing for me and um I have a copy of uh meditations in most rooms I spend time in.
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FoundationTheir words
foundation series is so good.
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Parkinson's LawTheir words
Books I come back to is like I I often talk about Pakistan's law which I love. Um it's such a quick read.
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Personal agents will act as a kind of structural subsidy for product quality.
Great read from Patrick, as always. “Personal agents will, I think, act as a kind of structural subsidy for product quality.” Yes, and well put.
@tobi on X Said 10 Oct 2026
Governments cannot provide services for free.
It’s impossible to make something free for a government. I wish we would ban the use of that word.
@tobi on X Said 27 Sept 2026
A politician's plan to fund a program by taking some people's money is driven by an incentive to buy votes rather than make things better.
She’s saying she will take some people’s money to pay for this. The incentive is to buy votes, not make things better.
@tobi on X Said 27 Sept 2026
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Without an execution environment, LLMs cannot properly act on their understanding of how to forward evolve a system.
LLMs understand the concept of forward evolving a system to solve a need very well. This comes from the agentic RL. They understand how to change the state of a codebase or acquire data from databases and then operate on it similarly to humans. But without an execution environment, they actually cannot do this properly.
@tobi on X Said 21 Sept 2026
Someone may soon build (or already has built) an embeddable, sqlite-style execution environment that parses bash, TypeScript, or tool calls into a security-checkable IL plan.
My bet? Sometime soon someone will (or has already?) create a embeddable, sqlite style mini execution environment that parses bash, typescript, or tool calls into a common IL execution plan that's easy to security check before executing. And design this specifically for durable execution environments.
@tobi on X Said 21 Sept 2026
Code should be accepted based on its merit and accountability for it should be assigned.
Accept code on merit and ensure that a person takes accountability for it. Doesn’t matter if it was typed, chiseled, generated, or bit-flipped via magnetized needle on a chip. If it’s good, it’s good. If it’s slop, it’s slop.
@tobi on X Said 20 Sept 2026
The computing industry does not know its own history, so it discards the great lessons of its pioneers and has to rediscover them over and over.
This matters I think because we we we we discard great lessons and have to rediscover them over and over and over again.
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
Abandoning skeuomorphism for flat interfaces after Steve Jobs left was a mistake: software lost its analogy to the real world.
the moment he was out of the picture, everything became flat, right? And we lost sort of even uh shadows and verticality and so on. It looked potentially better design ages but like we lost the analogy. Okay. So I think this was a mistake.
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
Bing's Sydney, not ChatGPT, was the first truly fantastic chatbot.
the earliest chatbot that was really actually fantastic wasn't chat GPT but actually Sydney which was powered by Bing
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
Machines cannot take responsibility, which is the most overlooked limit of AI; humans take responsibility and machines can only inform them.
Machines can't take responsibility. And I think this is actually probably most overlooked thing in the entire um uh stack. Humans take responsibility. machines can help us um take more responsibility because they can inform us better.
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
The ideal environment for decisions is a human-in-the-loop decision surface, not a machine that makes the call.
Creating human invaloop decision surfaces is uh a way to I think describe the ideal environment.
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
With AI, the failure mode of lazy work is no longer too little output but too much.
Now um of of of lazy work is not lack of output. It's actually over output.
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
Collaborative multiplayer software is the future.
I think collaborative multiplayer software is the future.
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
A company cannot be led by machines, because nobody would have recourse against them.
you can't have a company that's led by machines because they have no like no one has recourse they can't go to jail for doing something wrong
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
Humans have been living in the presence of a superintelligence their entire lives.
We are living in the presence of super intelligence our entire lives.
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
Taste and judgment will be the most valuable skills over the next decade, and teenagers should spend their time now cultivating taste.
taste um and judgment um are the skills that have always been valuable but now will get to the limit. I think it's better to spend your teenage years now cultivating like understanding taste.
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
People are drawn to complex answers, and complex answers tend to be incorrect.
There's a human uh desire for complex answers which tend to be incorrect.
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
Intuition is most valuable precisely where there is no direct feedback.
intuition is actually the most valuable when there isn't uh direct feedback
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
The right path for a company tends to be the option without a rapid feedback loop attached.
I find a very high correlation between the right path and the ones that don't have feedback loops um attached.
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
Companies are short-term focused not because executives are, but because executives are incentivised to prove results at quarterly intervals.
I don't think the executives tend to be short-term focused, but the executives often like what they incentivized to keep their job. Therefore, they need to be able to prove that they're doing a good job at intervals.
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
The hard part of a decision is choosing among several valid solutions, not finding a right one.
Choosing the right among of of the valid solutions is actually the hard part, not finding a right solution.
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
When there is an orthodox way to solve a problem, that solution deserves suspicion.
if if there is a orthodox way to solve a problem I am incredibly suspicious
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
Affirmations are the easiest way to reshape your own mind, the way willpower turns behaviour into habit.
I think doing the same thing with the mind is totally possible and affirmations are the easiest way to do it
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
Being bad at something is not an intrinsic property of a person but a temporary state they can change whenever they choose.
the reason why we're not good at everything like at anything is not a intrinsic property of you. It is a um it is a temporary state that you have a power to change at any point you choose.
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
A store that closes on Shopify because it found no product-market fit is not bad churn, because the same entrepreneurs will probably try again.
it's a very good thing for Shopify that this happened on Shopify because those same entrepreneurs will probably try again.
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
You are not a craftsperson unless you care about the parts of a product that other people do not see.
You're not a crafts person unless you care about the parts of products that other people don't see.
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
Beauty is how intuition communicates with us.
because beauty is actually how our intuition communicates with us.
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
SpaceX is the most impressive company on Earth and will likely go down as the most consequential company of the age.
I think it's the most um impressive company on planet earth by um by far. It'll likely go down as the most consequential company of um the age
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
You cannot keep making things better by adding to them; you must prune.
You cannot make things better and better by adding stuff. You can't you must prune.
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
Failure is never a problem unless it is catastrophic.
Failure is never a problem unless it is catastrophic.
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
A department inside a company sometimes needs a refounding event.
A department sometimes needs a refounding event
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
Recently written non-fiction is mostly a product of its time; books that have stood the test of time are the ones worth reading.
at least for non uh fiction I walked away from books written recently I think everything written recently is really just like the product of its time
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Said 15 Sept 2026
The best strategy for Canada is, and always has been, to win by helping America win.
By far the best strategy for Canada is, and has always been to win by helping America win.
@tobi on X Said 13 Sept 2026
Being strong, sovereign, hard-working and deeply competent, ideally also finishing ambitious infrastructure on budget and on time, makes every other problem melt away.
The best way is to be strong, sovereign, hard-working and deeply competent. Ideally with an uncanny ability to start ambitious infrastructure projects and finish them on budget and on time. Shout-out to our nuclear energy sector for nailing that. Do that and every other problem melts away.
@tobi on X Said 13 Sept 2026
Trade deals with the EU are good for Canada, but anything beyond that anchors it to a bloc whose economic ambitions are little higher than being an open-air museum.
Making trade deals with EU is good for Canada. Anything beyond that is just anchoring ourselves to a block who’s economic ambitions aren’t much higher than being an “open air museum”.
@tobi on X Said 13 Sept 2026
When people see what needs to happen but don't want to be the bad guy, a leader who agrees with the premise just making the call saves enormous amounts of meetings and change management.
They see what needs to happen but don’t want to be the bad guy. I’m happy to just make the call if I agree with the premise. Saves enormous amounts of meetings and change management etc.
@tobi on X Said 11 Sept 2026
Video game graphics pipelines will shift to visually prompting neural renderers.
Yea video game gfx pipelines will now just visually prompt neural renderers.
@tobi on X Said 7 Sept 2026
Tiny models trained for narrow tasks can perform excellently when paired with a strong self-improving recursive flywheel
Training tiny models for special purpose use cases works so incredibly well if you have a great self improving recursive flywheel.
@tobi on X Said 1 Sept 2026
Coding agents should read the shared AGENTS.md convention; insisting on a tool-specific CLAUDE.md creates split-brain problems across a team.
I’m thinking about banning Claude code at Shopify until they change their mind and read AGENTS.md and .agents/skills etc. Insisting on only reading CLAUDE.md sometimes leads to split brain problems when different team members use different tools. Just unnecessary.
@tobi on X Said 25 Aug 2026
Requiring two parallel agent instruction files in a monorepo is a complexity tax that leaves some developers working with a lobotomised agent.
With thousands of developed in a mono repo, it just does happen that one directory is missing one of the two files and this means that a subset of devs work with lobotomy. We fix this with automation but it’s a stupid complexity tax that shouldn’t have to be paid.
@tobi on X Said 25 Aug 2026
Customising an operating system by asking an agent replaces esoteric config syntax as the way customisation actually works.
Now you can have a quake style console in your operating system. Except with an infinitely patient agent to help you customize it instead of esoteric variable names and slash commands like in the 90s
@tobi on X Said 18 Aug 2026
You can now simply ask for the desktop tools you want and have them built, instead of finding or writing them yourself.
You can literally just wish for the tools you want now. Omarchy has every skill to make them. It’s magical.
@tobi on X Said 11 Aug 2026
You do not need to predict the future; you only need to live in everyone else's relative future, which is a few high-conviction beta updates away.
You don't even need to predict the future that well. If you just live in everyone else's relative future, which really is just a couple of um high conviction high courage uh update to beta clicks. It's not that hard to live in the future.
ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) Said 18 Sept 2025
A good tool raises the floor of what people can build without lowering the ceiling, and almost every tool quietly lowers the ceiling.
what you are try like trying to do as a tool maker, as an infrastructure builder, um as a product maker is you want to make a uh tool that brings the floor up significantly, but doesn't constrain the ceiling. And that is extremely hard.
ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) Said 18 Sept 2025
An abstraction chosen wrongly at the start means a team can never make its software great, however good that team is.
Just imagine you use very bad software and um the team that started the project decided early to use Xamarin and then they never had a chance of making this as good as all the other things you really appreciate on your phone due to this decision no matter how good they are.
ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) Said 18 Sept 2025
The one thing no science-fiction writer dared predict is that the Turing test would be passed and nobody would notice.
And you know what no sci-fi author dared to predict is that the Turing tests just passes by.
ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) Said 18 Sept 2025
This is the golden age of humanity and the end of its beginning; in a thousand years these decades will be studied the way we study the end of the Roman Republic.
I I think this is golden age of humanity right now. It's the I think it's the end of the beginning. And and so I think we will um I think people in 1,000 years will um study these times uh the way we are studying um Cicero's times of the end of the Roman Republic
ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) Said 18 Sept 2025
We have not stopped building great works; ours are operating-system kernels, browsers and silicon lithography rather than bridges and steel mills.
However, we are actually absolutely doing this. It's just the great works are kernels of operating systems, the browser, the um lots of the software platforms, the phones, the um the incredible advances in uh silicon lithography
ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) Said 18 Sept 2025
Nobody falls in love with solutions at the start of a career, and the people who stayed in love with problems are the ones this technology enables.
But again, the people who love to solve problems are the ones who are just so enabled right now and I think everyone starts there. No one is falls in love with solutions at the beginning of their careers.
ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) Said 18 Sept 2025
A job title is a calcification of how a company once solved a problem, not a description of what a person is.
you are you are a sales operations expert, right? Like what is that? That's that's that that's like a title for a particular way how companies end up solving a particular operational problem they had at some point.
ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) Said 18 Sept 2025
Requiring everyone at a company to reach for AI first is a fairness measure, because otherwise the people who already do will take all the best careers.
I I sent a memo to my company like and we set the expectation that we require that people reflexively reach for AI now and and we require it because it's unfair not to because the people who do otherwise going to be the people who sequester all the best careers to themselves, right?
ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) Said 18 Sept 2025
The fundamental skill of using AI well is stating a problem with enough context that it is solvable without any further information.
I I like the term context engineering because I think the fundamental skill of using AI well is to be able to state a problem with enough context in such a way that without any additional piece of information, the task is plausibly solvable.
ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) Said 18 Sept 2025
Most of what people call politics inside a company is really bad context engineering.
I write much better emails since I became a good context engineer. I just like I now realize how much is unsaid in instructions. Why is so many things so much of what people describe in companies as politics is actually bad context engineering.
ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) Said 18 Sept 2025
A stated company value that nobody would take the other side of is a platitude, not a choice.
figuring out a document that is actually like sort of all the things that are not platitudes whereas like all the things where someone else like some other company would plausibly take the other side of and but that's but those are the real choices, right? Like if no one would take the other side, it's a platitude.
ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) Said 18 Sept 2025
People love leadership, including the leadership they complain about, and there is something wonderful about being part of a group that is being led.
I believe those things are utterly incorrect now. I I I I think people love leadership. Like they like they they love complaining about it, too, which they should. And it like it deserves all criticism it gets, but like there's something absolutely wonderful being part of a group that's being led.
ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) Said 18 Sept 2025
Every decision reached by consensus is an instance of the absence of leadership.
leadership and consensus are two sides of the same spectrum. Like they don't intersect at all. It's like every time consensus makes a decision, it's the absence of leadership.
ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) Said 18 Sept 2025
No great book has been written by a group; books are as good as they are because they always have a single author.
It's just like like I don't think a great book has been written as a big collaboration between multiple people. It's like books are hit it are as good as they are because they're always single author.
ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) Said 18 Sept 2025
In a managerially run company legitimacy lives in the plan rather than in any person, which is why changing anything takes enormous activation energy.
no one carries the full legitimacy inside of a company. Legitimacy is a currency in a companies. No one carries the full legitimacy in a company, even the CEO. The CEO just has a lot of input on the plan. The plan carries the legitimacy.
ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) Said 18 Sept 2025
A hired chief executive can become the author of a company's culture by giving it a re-founding event, as Satya Nadella and Jamie Dimon did.
I think both of them have given re-founding events to their companies. I think they are actually um uh they have made such large changes with such clear breaks from the past that they are actually are the authors of their companies' cultures now.
ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) Said 18 Sept 2025
Firing a chief executive for bad results is several levels of wrong; the question is what company they carved out of the opportunity they were handed.
in management uh like a CEO is is being fired when results are bad, which I think is fundamental that's multiple levels of wrong. Um, but like the way to judge a CEO is like out of what opportunity did you carve what company?
ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) Said 18 Sept 2025
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Personal agents will act as a kind of structural subsidy for product quality. 2 hold this
Great read from Patrick, as always. “Personal agents will, I think, act as a kind of structural subsidy for product quality.” Yes, and well put.
@tobi on X Said 10 Oct 2026
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Loved Parkinson's Law
Books I come back to is like I I often talk about Pakistan's law which I love. Um it's such a quick read.
youtube.com 15 Sept 2026
Loved Foundation
Loved Meditations
I mean obviously I am a meditations fan. I know stoicism is falling out of favor a little bit right now but like it's been um a lifelong thing for me and um I have a copy of uh meditations in most rooms I spend time in.
youtube.com 15 Sept 2026
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Loved The Managerial Revolution
James Bernham's books are fantastic I think um um and extremely relevant.
youtube.com 15 Sept 2026
Loved The Machiavellians
He wrote um the managerial revolution first and then a book called the Macavalians which is unbelievably good.
youtube.com 15 Sept 2026
Loved The Lessons of History
I almost always will mention the lessons of history which is I just think the densest like the highest token quality book in existence like given for the length
youtube.com 15 Sept 2026
Liked Rails
All that complexity was in the way and using straight rails was perfect in that case.
x.com 11 Sept 2026
Recommends Muse
Recommends Muse app
You should try Meta’s Muse app. It’s pretty amazing.
x.com 9 Sept 2026
Liked NetHack
I always liked nethack. This 42 year old marvel is one of the deepest adventure games ever made.
x.com 6 Sept 2026
Liked Muse 1.3
What a week for new ai models. Muse 1.3 looks very strong!
x.com 2 Sept 2026
Liked UCP (Universal Commerce Protocol)
Mixed on Claude Code
I’m thinking about banning Claude code at Shopify until they change their mind and read AGENTS.md and .agents/skills etc.
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Liked omasnap
Where they publish
Site Too-biased Their own blog. Infrequent, and long when it appears.
A sparse personal blog — essays on building Shopify, on tools and on how they think about work, published a few times a year. Has a feed.
Link verified 1 Sept 2026.
x.com @tobi The main channel: near-daily, and where positions get stated.
High-volume posts and replies on building companies, AI at work, and craft. Almost everything on this site was said here rather than on the blog.
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- Tesla really did it. This isn't AI. 16 Oct 2026
- @Alekssg you made a masterpiece but not having saved loadouts or rebuy last kit makes it hard to play it for busy people 😕 Feels like filling out a spreadsheet between every round. 14 Oct 2026
- Predictably idiotic 14 Oct 2026 theglobeandmail.com
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- You can just do these things now 13 Oct 2026
- Really, try the "build your own skill" flow on this page. Team cooked. 13 Oct 2026 shop.md
- Turn any existing Agent into the world's best personal shopper for you. The new shop skill: https://t.co/2cyHQms4Vd Add the skill & connect your Shop account & finally find the thing that you always wanted 13 Oct 2026
- For almost 10 million people, Shopify is their career 13 Oct 2026
- This model is very very good. I was struggling to find anything to throw at it that it couldn’t do, even when other top models failed. Meta is back. 12 Oct 2026
- I’m now in a video game 😆. So fun. (Le Mans Ultimate) 11 Oct 2026
- Great read from Patrick, as always. “Personal agents will, I think, act as a kind of structural subsidy for product quality.” Yes, and well put. 10 Oct 2026
- what even is this Progress Toronto outfit? Seems really well funded. Vote Brad. 10 Oct 2026
- It’s feeling really magical inside of Shopify right now. It’s clearly the greatest time in the history of tech industry right now. I hope it feels similar everywhere else. 10 Oct 2026
- If you are using Grok Bot to run your Shopify store, please let us know if you have any feedback. 9 Oct 2026
- Did some things based on Sam's roundhouse which is really really promising. 6 Oct 2026
- Come help channel the AI revolution into an entrepreneurial renaissance 6 Oct 2026
- Enter it into eurovison 6 Oct 2026
- Hearing so many of these stories. 4 Oct 2026
- Friend found an old lan party picture. Miss those. That kid on the computer had nooo idea what was coming next 4 Oct 2026
- So fun to introduce old friends to the amazing world of endurance racing. Come by, or tune in tomorrow for Road Atlanta starting noon EST. 3 Oct 2026
- "Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting." 2 Oct 2026
Link verified 1 Sept 2026. Recent items update automatically from the channel.
GitHub tobi Still committing, twenty years in.
The account of someone who kept writing code while running a large company — Shopify-era Ruby work and a long tail of experiments since.
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- qmd — mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local 15 Oct 2026
- s 10 Oct 2026
- New repocampfire-once-ruby-ractor — ONCE Campfire on Ruby 4 Ractors + Falcon, no Rails. Byte-identical HTML to basecamp/once-campfire. 6 Oct 2026
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- motorsport-telemetry-rs — fast Rust libraries for motorsport telemetry, sessions, video, GPS, and track metadata 6 Oct 2026
- track-atlas 6 Oct 2026
- disktree — A treemap for finding and removing what fills your disk, for Omarchy. Rust + GPUI. 4 Oct 2026
- imsa_data 4 Oct 2026
- bb-bots-sidebar — Keep specialist bots, their memory, and their conversations together across projects. 27 Sept 2026
- duckdb_motorsport_telemetry — Fast DuckDB extension and Rust parsers for Cosworth PDS, MoTeC LD, and VBOX VBO telemetry 24 Sept 2026
- neohack — NetHack as-a-library. Semantic world exploration engine. 14 Sept 2026
- walgit 13 Sept 2026
- wrap — Run coding agents and project commands inside isolated Arch Linux microVMs 12 Sept 2026
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