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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Premium Bookmarks Creator Studio Articles Profile More Post alana goyal @alanaagoyal Article See new posts Conversation tobi lutke @tobi Learning on the Shop floor 113 436 2.3K 1.1M Years ago I wrote about my apprenticeship in Germany. I dropped out of school at 16 and went to work at a Siemens subsidiary, where the most interesting people sat in the basement and used Delphi instead of the corporate-mandated Rosie SQL (both pretty much lost to time and progress). I learned to be a programmer by watching them. By making them coffee. By hanging around long enough that their judgment seeped into mine. I have been thinking about that experience a lot in the last year, because we built something at Shopify that runs on the same principle. She's called River. River is an AI agent that lives in our company's Slack. You talk to her the same way you would talk to a teammate: by mentioni

@tobi: Learning on the Shop floor Years ago I wrote about my apprenticeship in Germany. I dropped out of school at 16 and went to work at a Siemens subsidiary, where the most interesting people sat in the basement and used Delphi instead of the corporate-mandated Rosie SQL (both pretty much lost to time and progress). I learned to be a programmer by watching them. By making them coffee. By hanging around long enough that their judgment seeped into mine. I have been thinking about that experience a lot in the last year, because we built something at Shopify that runs on the same principle. Sh

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