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Anonymous Shopify employee explains how the company is laying off employees in favor of AI tools:

"Everything in Shopify is turning to AI, from product descriptions to virtual sidekicks to a new help center AI agent (that is still in beta testing and yet to be released)."

Can these companies pull it off? Who knows. But they’re firing people right now. That feels like a more relevant concern. https://x.com/sh0p1fyj03/status/1681673980682305541?s=20

Joe Momma (@sh0p1fyj03) on X

1. In the first quarter of 2022 Shopify promised staff that their jobs were safe over a town hall video link. But then in July of 2022, Tobi sent an email to all staff telling them that in the next few minutes some of them would find out whether they still had a job or not:

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Show threadPhil Giammattei
@fromjason I would love to start a consulting company that you hire to come in and clean up after you try something like this and it completely blows up in your face
Dec 4, 2023 at 8:03pmIvory for iOS
Show threadfromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷Dec 4, 2023
@philgiammattei that sounds like a pretty good idea.