Enforcing the use of AI in engineering teams - good or bad thing?

Giving clear directions, feedback as you iterate, and appropriate context to make a decision all help humans, and they also help AI. Previously, this was something you could only do with text, but now you can do it with images as well.

1) "Vibe coding" is not engineering.Think of it as vibe wrangling - you continuously prompt the AI until it throws together a prototype that is functional looking. But under the hood? The AI has made a lot of silent decisions for you. When you want to take that prototype to production, it needs real engineering: someone who understands the implicat... See more

What This Means 1. Using Al effectively is now a fundamental expectation of everyone at Shopify. It's a tool of all trades today, and will only grow in importance. Frankly, I don't think it's feasible to opt out of learning the skill of applying Al in your craft; you are welcome to try, but I want to be honest I cannot see this working out today, a... See more

But if you don't have a use case then having this sort of broad capability is not actually very useful. The only thing you should be doing is improving your operations and culture , and that will give you the ability to use AI if it ever becomes relevant. Everyone is talking about Retrieval Augmented Generation, but most companies don't actually ha... See more

honestly, if your work/taste/idea is solid, i don’t give a shit if you used ai. in fact, if you’re not leveraging it, it would likely be a huge red flag. why would you voluntarily handicap yourself?

In order to maximize positive outcomes, everyone, especially those in senior roles who have a disproportionate impact on organizational culture, need to (1) be more leader and less commander, (2) foster psychological safety, and (3) leverage the fact that product development and organizational change is emergent, not deterministic. There is a need

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