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Tobi Lutke thinking about banning Claude Code at Shopify

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke said he is considering banning Anthropic's Claude Code at the company until it reads AGENTS.md and .agents/skills files, arguing that its insistence on only reading CLAUDE.md can cause split brain problems when team members use different tools.

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Tobi Lutke thinking about banning Claude Code at Shopify
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I’m thinking about banning Claude code at Shopify until they change their mind and read AGENTS.md and .agents/skills etc. Insisting on only reading CLAUDE.md sometimes leads to split brain problems when different team members use different tools. Just unnecessary.

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