What Tobias Lütke thinks about Anthropic
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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Their wordsI’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.