Glen Coates
6 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 31, 2024 by Glen Coates · across every show →
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Jan 31, 2024
Coates: Shopify's 2020 checkout 'code red' took 200-300 people for a year
“At least in my case, checkout code red in 2020 was, hey, the checkout is failing in, I don't know, three, four, five different ways. And the checkout is a pretty important part of Shopify, obviously. So let's go fix that. So we, me and, you know, somewhere bet…”
Jan 31, 2024
Jan 31, 2024 positive
Coates: Human-in-the-loop AI generates a three-part feedback loop for models
“You actually get a three part signal. You get which suggestions are accepted clean, which suggestions were accepted, but then with minor edits and then which suggestions were outright rejected. And that's An amazing loop to be able to improve things through.”
Jan 31, 2024 positive
Coates: High percentage of Shopify R&D leaders are former founders
“When I look at like my management team, the people who report to me, who each of these sort of nine or 10 people run R and D orgs that are like a couple hundred people each and almost like a very high percentage of those people are also founders, right?”
Jan 31, 2024
Coates: Shopify's AI rule is models can propose but never commit
“One of the principles that we have for all of the Shopify magic features today is that they're allowed to propose changes, but not commit changes, right? So they can like generate text, but they're not going to save it without you actually reading it and savin…”
Jan 31, 2024
Coates: AI agents reach 75% in 10 minutes, but 95% is brutal
“Well, look, I mean, I think the exciting and frustrating thing about LLMs right now is that you can get an LLM like agent thing, like a sidekick-esque thing. You can get it to like 75% in like 10 minutes. And then it's like this brutal hill climb to get it to,…”