What Tobias Lütke thinks about code generation
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Tobias Lütke has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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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.