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Canada / global · Tobi Lütke’s memo on learning AI at work

AI fluency is learned through use

“using AI well is a skill”

Tobi LütkeFounder and CEO, Shopify

X · 2025-04-07

Show the method you changed

Describe a tool you learned quickly. What evidence showed that you improved?

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Make the learning useful to someone else

“the only person who learns anything is the person at the keyboard.”

Tobi LütkeCEO, Shopify; quoted in the engineering team’s account

Shopify Engineering · May 28, 2026

Show how the team learned from the attempt

How did you make a useful AI workflow teachable to colleagues, rather than a private shortcut?

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