Shopify's Head of Engineering Farhan Thawar: 'AI Writes the Code, AI Reviews the Code — Your Job Is Just to Write the Loops Around It'
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Farhan Thawar, VP and Head of Engineering at Shopify, is reframing the engineer's role for ~3,000 engineers: the human job is no longer authoring lines but orchestrating the 'loops' around AI that both writes and reviews code. The viral clip (≈654K views, 2.5K likes) sits atop a 26-minute talk and aligns with Shopify's documented 2026 doctrine of 'agentic harnesses' — delegating toilsome coding to agents while engineers direct and evaluate, corroborated by Pragmatic Engineer and Bessemer coverage of Shopify's AI-first playbook.