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River, our Slack bot at Shopify, wasn't good at building mobile apps at first.
We fixed that, but engineers were still skeptical. Mobile development has always happened on your laptop, right?
So I made a series of internal ads for it. This is one of those:
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21 people, a single meeting a week, no quarterly goals, no pull requests, no mandatory code review, no titles (except one dictator), a hundred releases a day, bugs fixed in minutes, famous for killing features.
@sqs and @thorstenball on how the Amp team works:
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Interesting read by Anthropic. Here is the same viz but from inside Shopify’s River.
Thx @aquapoiesis
anthropic.com/research/emplo…
Come to Shopify. This is the place.
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We now run the largest frontier lab composed entirely of autonomous AI researchers.
Introducing Primus Society: a society of agents composed of thousands of researchers working under structured institutions designed to solve the world’s toughest problems. We believe this is how AI research should run at scale, safely and productively: an entire society of agents with institutions and purpose.
One discovery we can already share is that the society has discovered a novel result which improves model training by 30%.
Primus Society was inspired by the structures that have organized science for centuries and stress-tested against what’s known about how populations of AI agents fail.
Everything is observable. You can open the virtual city in a browser and read what any researcher is working on.
Learn more about Primus Society here:
lab.cloud/society
The biggest opening in the AI race is running the largest well-governed organization of AI researchers in the world. We’re building the institutions that let a million AI scientists safely tackle the world's toughest problems in AI and beyond. And we’re doing it right here in Canada.
They actually built this on email.
Google is doomed.
blog.google/innovation-and-a…
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We are excited to announce we are partnering deeply with Muse to enable agentic checkout with Shop Pay on all Shopify stores, offering people an easy and delightful way to shop and check out with Muse.
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Launched during Dreamforce #DF26: Snap Specs Augmented Reality Glasses integrated to Salesforce, taking Field Service to the next level, powered by Agentforce.
Smart glasses become a new surface for the Salesforce Platform. Connecting to customers in a whole new way...
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We use River, our AI Slack agent, to run our vulnerability remediation pipeline. It carries the work through live-state checks, CI, human decisions, merge, and verification. This process cut one of our backlogs by ~70% in 11 days. We’re sharing what worked so other defenders can build on it: shopify.engineering/river-vu…
First thing River does with any open vulnerability: check whether it still exists.
About a third of our "open" backlog was already fixed or no longer applied. It had just been sitting there. River closed those out with evidence instead of writing patches nobody needed.
Attackers reuse techniques across targets. Defenders should too. Full writeup from the team:
shopify.engineering/river-vu…