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Shopify CTO Parakhin on Latent Space: 100% AI Adoption, Unlimited Opus-4.6 Token Budget, Critique > Generation
Shopify CTO Mikhail Parakhin revealed on the Latent Space podcast that 100% of Shopify's workforce now uses AI tools daily, following an exponential inflection in token consumption in late 2025. Parakhin defends Jensen Huang's controversial 'measure engineers by token spend' stance as 'directionally correct' but stresses quality controls matter more than raw volume. His key insight for builders: the bottleneck isn't more agents in parallel — it's better critique loops, and Shopify now spends more on AI review than AI generation.
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