Shopify’s AI Phase Transition: 2026 Usage Explosion, Unlimited Opus-4.6 Token Budget, Tangle, Tangent, SimGym — with Mikhail Parakhin, Shopify CTO

Shopify's CTO Mikhail Parakhin discusses the company's transition into an AI-centric phase, highlighting anticipated AI usage explosion in 2026, the adoption of unlimited Claude Opus-4.6 token budgets for advanced capabilities, and internal projects including Tangle, Tangent, and SimGym that represent Shopify's infrastructure and modeling innovations. The conversation covers how Shopify is positioning itself to leverage large language models and AI systems to transform its platform and merchant tools at scale.

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Had a great conversation with @swyx on @latentspacepod about what we're building at @Shopify. SimGym, Tangent, our approach to PR review at …
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Source: Latent Space | 2026-04-22

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