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Latent Space: Shopify CTO Mikhail Parakhin Reveals 100% AI Adoption, Unlimited Opus-4.6 Token Budget, and SimGym Agent Training
In a rare deep-dive interview, Shopify CTO Mikhail Parakhin (ex-Microsoft) disclosed that 100% of Shopify's workforce now uses AI daily after a December 2025 inflection in token consumption. The company funds unlimited tokens for everyone and actively discourages using anything less capable than Opus 4.6. Parakhin's key metric: the ratio of generation tokens to automated PR review tokens by high-end models — a critique-loop approach to quality control. Also covers Tangle, Tangent, and SimGym (agent training environment).
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