From Memo to Movement: Shopify’s Cultural Adoption of AI | First Round

Shopify's engineering program hires more interns, leveraging their AI skills and beginner's mindset. The company prototyped more, increasing the ratio of prototype attempts to build attempts, enabling the "green path of product-building". Workflow analysis shows that pair programming and AI tool usage correlate with positive performance reviews. Thawar also models behavior by pairing with an engineer to show how he uses AI, aiming to discover "process power" by optimizing business processes using AI.