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> But now we are at the dawn of the AI era and the new capabilities that are unlocked by that are unprecedented. Shopify has the privilege of being amongst the companies with the best chances of using AI to help our customers. A copilot for entrepreneurship is now possible. Our main quest demands from us to build the best thing that is now possible, and that has just changed entirely.

Most recent layoffs have been framed around needing to focus the company due to economic and market headwinds. This reads like AI has transformed the mission.

What does "A copilot for entrepreneurship is now possible" mean here?

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After IBM did it, every layoff from now on is going to explicitly or implicitly say that AI will cover for things in the future; it's some magic words to try to not spook investors.

both Meta and Google mentioned it as well. They're much bigger trend setters than IBM

This is especially hilarious as Shopify senior leadership has traditionally been outright against AI, and is even blatantly against making decisions based on data, and even against people with domain expertise! Even today, I don't think they remotely understand AI and certainly not how to build it.

I guess their idea of AI is someone using the ChatGPT API. Good luck if they think they will "hack" some revolutionary AI together with a cowboy hacker culture.

<< What does "A copilot for entrepreneurship is now possible" mean here?

I think this is what is meant here[1]. Not copilot, but the idea is the same.

It is interesting, because 'prompt engineering' is being discussed in the same context. In the video, you will note several interesting bugs generated by GPT. Is it not exciting to see all those bugs in the next few years?

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y7GRYaYYQg

It means they’ll frequently be seeing the phrase “as an AI language model…” in their daily strategy sessions.

Think of it more like auto-pilot. You go to sleep and your shop runs promos, creates new products (digital, or digitally-printed), runs a/b test on your collections, whatever - all so you wake up to new sales.

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