Shopify migrated its Shop app from React Native to fully native Swift and Kotlin code, a move the company said was enabled by advances in coding agents, after a one-week proof of concept by a single e…
Shopify's AI agent River reduced its dependency vulnerability backlog by about 70% in the first 11 days of operation, with roughly two-thirds of issues resolved via direct merges and the rest confirme…
Shopify Engineering implemented gisting to compress the Sidekick GraphQL agent's system prompt from ~6,000 tokens to ~1,500 gist tokens (a 4:1 reduction) without losing prediction quality, cutting med…
Sidekick's continual learning loop compresses production experience into model weights, delivering higher quality than frontier models while cutting costs by 96% in Shopify's GraphQL agent. The proces…
Andrej Karpathy's Autoresearch, an AI loop that emulates a human researcher, is being applied beyond model training to optimize software development workflows. A Shopify developer on the Polaris team …
Shopify launched Quick, an internal hosting platform that lets employees deploy static websites by uploading a folder, with built-in APIs for databases, AI, and real-time updates. Since July 2025, Qui…
Shopify has deployed River, an AI agent integrated into the company's Slack, that now co-authors one in eight merged pull requests across the organization. The agent's capabilities were enabled by two…