What Tobias Lütke thinks about coding agents
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Tobias Lütke has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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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.
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Their wordsWith thousands of developed in a mono repo, it just does happen that one directory is missing one of the two files and this means that a subset of devs work with lobotomy. We fix this with automation but it’s a stupid complexity tax that shouldn’t have to be paid.
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Their wordsNow you can have a quake style console in your operating system. Except with an infinitely patient agent to help you customize it instead of esoteric variable names and slash commands like in the 90s