About one in eight pull requests merged into our codebase last week was authored by River, reviewed by us.
Tobi LütkeCo-founder and Chief Executive Officer · Executive, 
Shopify
Social post: Learning on the Shop floor, X post by Tobi Lutke, CEO, May 9, 2026.
Tobi Lütke, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. Runs the company and wrote its April 2025 AI-before-headcount memo, so Lütke speaks first-hand about internal AI use. Lütke also promotes Shopify, so numbers Lütke gives are self-reported.
Checked against the source by a first reader, then confirmed independently by a second reader who fetched the source without seeing the first reader's notes (Independent review agent (Claude Sonnet), blind second pass from passage text and citation only, no repository access, 2026-10-31).
The fxtwitter API shows the post on @tobi is an X article titled 'Learning on the Shop floor'. The sentence appears verbatim in the article body, in the first-person text of the account owner Tobi Lutke.
Tobi Lütke (Shopify), “Learning on the Shop floor”, X post by Tobi Lutke, CEO, 2026-05-09. https://x.com/tobi/status/2053121182044451016 Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/shopify-about-one-eight-pull-requests-merged-into-2026
An improvement from 36% to 77% over two months came from people watching River work
Tobi LütkeCo-founder and Chief Executive Officer · Executive, Shopify
Social post: Learning on the Shop floor, X post by Tobi Lütke, CEO (long-form article "Learning on the Shop floor"), May 9, 2026.
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