When software developers and AI agents share the learning

Before Tobi Lütke ran Shopify, he learned programming through Germany’s apprenticeship system⁠, the way people have learned trades forever: in a shared workshop, watching people who already knew what they were doing. More recently, describing Shopify’s River , he reached for a related word: Lehrwerkstatt ⁠, a teaching workshop where “the whole shop floor is the classroom.” X has been agog by the numbers around River ⁠, Shopify’s Slack-native AI agent . In total, 5,938 Shopify employees worked wi