Inside Shopify's AI strategy with CTO Mikhail Parakhin

Shopify's CTO, Mikhail Parakhin, says the company gives every engineer unlimited tokens (the metered units in which model usage is billed) and always uses the largest model from Anthropic's Claude family. In the interview description, the stated reason is that the real value of working with Claude lies in building things that were not possible before, such as a problem he had worked on for seven years. The policy is presented as a way to raise what engineers can attempt, not as a measured productivity result: the description reports no figures, and the interview itself was not reviewed.