3,536 River-coauthored pull requests merged in that window.
Burke LibbeyPrincipal Engineer · Practitioner, 
Shopify
Post: Under the River, Shopify engineering blog, May 28, 2026.
- 3,536 agent prs, 30 days to about 2026-05. Level not stated
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Burke Libbey, Principal Engineer. Engineer on the infrastructure behind River writing about Libbey's own team's system; the post is the company's own publication.
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Raw HTML fetched with curl. The page text reads '...(announced about River in early May). 3,536 River-coauthored pull requests merged in that window.' The byline is 'by Burke Libbey / Javier Moreno / River', published May 28, 2026. The bold-tag split around '3,536' is an allowed whitespace difference.
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Burke Libbey (Shopify), “Under the River”, Shopify engineering blog, 2026-05-28. https://shopify.engineering/under-the-river Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/shopify-3-536-river-coauthored-pull-requests-merged-2026
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Burke LibbeyPrincipal Engineer · Practitioner, Shopify
Post: Under the River, Shopify engineering blog, May 28, 2026.
In a recent 30 day period: 59,918 River sessions happened in 5,170 Slack channels, touching the work of 7,000+ people inside the company
Burke LibbeyPrincipal Engineer · Practitioner, Shopify
Post: Under the River, Shopify engineering blog, May 28, 2026.
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