What Tobias Lütke thinks about AI and jobs

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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.

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18 Sept 2025

Our readingRequiring everyone at a company to reach for AI first is a fairness measure, because otherwise the people who already do will take all the best careers.

Their wordsI I sent a memo to my company like and we set the expectation that we require that people reflexively reach for AI now and and we require it because it's unfair not to because the people who do otherwise going to be the people who sequester all the best careers to themselves, right?

↗ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke)youtube.com 9th of 21 in this recording