Lütke clarifies AI's proper role: clarity and concision
1 Sep 17 5:33 AM · 9d ago · 2 articles · 4 posts · 2 comments · 3 sources · development 1 of 1
Lütke distinguished between valuable and wasteful AI use, saying the technology is most useful when it makes thinking clearer and more concise, and least useful when it adds low-quality material to a colleague's workload.
“Humans take responsibility. Machines can help us take more responsibility because they can inform us better.”
Tobias LütkeTobias Lütke Shopify CEO
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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 2 claims were published in its stretch
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first by Mastodon, 8d ago · also Times of India, Fortune, Business Insider
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- Shopify CEO to employees: Don't make AI do all your work Times of India · 8d ago
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2 outlets "Slop Grenades": Shopify CEO Who Pushed Staff to Use AI Is Now Horrified by What He's Wrought
first by Mastodon, 7d ago · also Yahoo Finance
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very ironic to see a slopleader now complaining about "slop grenades" but it is a good term and it is heartening to see a zealot come to his senses https:// futurism.com/artificial-intell igence/shopify-ceo-ai-workplace-staff-horrified-backfire from the article: Estimates found workers already waste 3.4 hours a month cleaning up the AI schlock…
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It reminds me of a reference a sales guy sent out of a pump cart intended for flushing electrolyzers. At a glance, it looked alright but the more one looked at it the more issues get noticed. Issues such as the scale of the pump being "off" from the actual scale compared to the cart footprint. Text on everything was messed up and the supports were…
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“The tech leaders who once hailed AI use as the key to unlocking every employee’s full potential are now changing their tune. This includes Shopify cofounder and CEO Tobias Lütke. He told employees last year that using AI is “a baseline expectation,” and they should first prove they “cannot get what they want done using AI” before asking for more…
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My boss’ new favorite phrase is “can you AI this?” Wrote a promotion doc for one of my employees and he was like “stick it in Claude first” which took what I had written, inflated it 2x and did not materially change the content in any way. Awesome.
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The simple sabotage manual could use this as an update, writing something to the effect of spend more time generating AI output. There is something to be said about finding chat bots and just prompting them to runoff and go on a wild goose chase “Shopify CEO says employees’ ‘slop grenades’ are making more work for everyone else” https://…
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My SVP tech told my VP product that her document (which was produced using AI) is not upto the mark because Gemini didn't give him a good summary of it. Make of it what you will. I couldn't even shake my head as I heard this on a video call.
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New term just dropped Slop grenades https:// futurism.com/artificial-intell igence/shopify-ceo-ai-workplace-staff-horrified-backfire # Shopify # TobiasLutke
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You should see the Reddit web browsing experience. It’s… something. I open comment sections in a new tab because everything about the app is just shit if you don’t.
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"Slop grenades" https:// finance.yahoo.com/technology/a i/articles/shopify-ceo-says-employees-slop-213317798.html
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Lütke said it's [emphasis mine] internal agent, ... It's clear that this article wasn't written by AI!
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