Shopify CTO discusses internal AI adoption and tools strategy

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Shopify CTO Mikhail Parakhin joined a podcast to discuss the company's shift toward widespread internal AI adoption and its custom tooling strategy. He covered three major initiatives: Tangle for reproducible ML workflows, Tangent for automated optimization research, and SimGym for customer behavior simulation using historical data. Parakhin also discussed Shopify's use of non-transformer models like Liquid AI and the company's approach to AI-assisted code review and deployment.

Lead coverage: Latent Space (Swyx) — Shopify’s AI Phase Transition: 2026 Usage Explosion, Unlimited Opus-4.6 Token Budget, Tangle, Tangent, SimGym — with Mikhail Parakhin, Shopify CTO ↗

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Shopify’s AI Phase Transition: 2026 Usage Explosion, Unlimited Opus-4.6 Token Budget, Tangle, Tangent, SimGym — with Mikhail Parakhin, Shopify CTO ↗

Shopify CTO Mikhail Parakhin joined a podcast to discuss the company's shift toward widespread internal AI adoption and its custom tooling strategy. He covered three major initiatives: Tangle for reproducible ML workflows, Tangent for automated optimization research, and SimGym for customer behavior simulation using historical data. Parakhin also discussed Shopify's use of non-transformer models like Liquid AI and the company's approach to AI-assisted code review and deployment.

We effectively fund unlimited tokens for everybody.

— Mikhail Parakhin

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Earliest: 2026-04-22T19:33:49.000Z
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