“it’s probably up to about 50% of pull requests in Shopify, which again, pull requests, every time you change your production system, you write a pull request, are created now not by engineers doing engineering work in the traditional sense”
Tobi LütkeCo-founder and Chief Executive Officer · Executive, Shopify
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.
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In a Tobi Lütke turn: 'a very large percentage, I want to say it’s probably up to about 50% of pull requests in Shopify...'. The passage is a mid-sentence excerpt and matches exactly after curly-apostrophe normalization.
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Tobi Lütke (Shopify), “The Knowledge Project (podcast by Shane Parrish of Farnam Street, independent), transcript on fs.blog”, The Knowledge Project (podcast by Shane Parrish of Farnam Street, independent), transcript on fs.blog, 2026-09-10. https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/tobi-lutke-3/ Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/shopify-its-probably-up-about-50-pull-requests-2026
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