Tobias Lütke
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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Their wordsGreat read from Patrick, as always. “Personal agents will, I think, act as a kind of structural subsidy for product quality.” Yes, and well put.
- 13 days earlier
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Their wordsShe’s saying she will take some people’s money to pay for this. The incentive is to buy votes, not make things better.
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Their wordsIt’s impossible to make something free for a government. I wish we would ban the use of that word.
- 6 days earlier
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Their wordsLLMs understand the concept of forward evolving a system to solve a need very well. This comes from the agentic RL. They understand how to change the state of a codebase or acquire data from databases and then operate on it similarly to humans. But without an execution environment, they actually cannot do this properly.
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Their wordsMy bet? Sometime soon someone will (or has already?) create a embeddable, sqlite style mini execution environment that parses bash, typescript, or tool calls into a common IL execution plan that's easy to security check before executing. And design this specifically for durable execution environments.
- 1 day earlier
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AI slopcode generationsoftware quality
Their wordsAccept code on merit and ensure that a person takes accountability for it. Doesn’t matter if it was typed, chiseled, generated, or bit-flipped via magnetized needle on a chip. If it’s good, it’s good. If it’s slop, it’s slop.
- 5 days earlier
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Their wordsThis matters I think because we we we we discard great lessons and have to rediscover them over and over and over again.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 1st of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsthe moment he was out of the picture, everything became flat, right? And we lost sort of even uh shadows and verticality and so on. It looked potentially better design ages but like we lost the analogy. Okay. So I think this was a mistake.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 2nd of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsthe earliest chatbot that was really actually fantastic wasn't chat GPT but actually Sydney which was powered by Bing
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 3rd of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsMachines can't take responsibility. And I think this is actually probably most overlooked thing in the entire um uh stack. Humans take responsibility. machines can help us um take more responsibility because they can inform us better.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 4th of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsCreating human invaloop decision surfaces is uh a way to I think describe the ideal environment.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 5th of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsNow um of of of lazy work is not lack of output. It's actually over output.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 6th of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsI think collaborative multiplayer software is the future.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 7th of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsyou can't have a company that's led by machines because they have no like no one has recourse they can't go to jail for doing something wrong
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 8th of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsWe are living in the presence of super intelligence our entire lives.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 9th of 26 in this recording
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Their wordstaste um and judgment um are the skills that have always been valuable but now will get to the limit. I think it's better to spend your teenage years now cultivating like understanding taste.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 10th of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsThere's a human uh desire for complex answers which tend to be incorrect.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 11th of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsintuition is actually the most valuable when there isn't uh direct feedback
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 12th of 26 in this recording
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Our reading
The right path for a company tends to be the option without a rapid feedback loop attached.
Their wordsI find a very high correlation between the right path and the ones that don't have feedback loops um attached.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 13th of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsI don't think the executives tend to be short-term focused, but the executives often like what they incentivized to keep their job. Therefore, they need to be able to prove that they're doing a good job at intervals.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 14th of 26 in this recording
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Our reading
The hard part of a decision is choosing among several valid solutions, not finding a right one.
Their wordsChoosing the right among of of the valid solutions is actually the hard part, not finding a right solution.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 15th of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsif if there is a orthodox way to solve a problem I am incredibly suspicious
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 16th of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsI think doing the same thing with the mind is totally possible and affirmations are the easiest way to do it
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 17th of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsthe reason why we're not good at everything like at anything is not a intrinsic property of you. It is a um it is a temporary state that you have a power to change at any point you choose.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 18th of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsit's a very good thing for Shopify that this happened on Shopify because those same entrepreneurs will probably try again.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 19th of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsYou're not a crafts person unless you care about the parts of products that other people don't see.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 20th of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsbecause beauty is actually how our intuition communicates with us.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 21st of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsI think it's the most um impressive company on planet earth by um by far. It'll likely go down as the most consequential company of um the age
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 22nd of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsYou cannot make things better and better by adding stuff. You can't you must prune.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 23rd of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsFailure is never a problem unless it is catastrophic.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 24th of 26 in this recording