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Tobias Lütke

What Tobias Lütke thinks about coding agents

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

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  1. Our readingCoding agents should read the shared AGENTS.md convention; insisting on a tool-specific CLAUDE.md creates split-brain problems across a team.

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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.

    ↗@tobi on Xx.com

  3. Our readingRequiring two parallel agent instruction files in a monorepo is a complexity tax that leaves some developers working with a lobotomised agent.

    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.

    ↗@tobi on Xx.com

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  5. Our readingCustomising an operating system by asking an agent replaces esoteric config syntax as the way customisation actually works.

    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

    ↗@tobi on Xx.com