Toby Lütke is the CEO and co-founder of Shopify, one of the largest e-commerce platforms in the world. Built on Ruby on Rails, Shopify’s main monolith is approximately 3 million lines of code developed over 20 years.
Perspective on AI Agents
Lütke is widely recognized in the tech industry as one of the earliest senior leaders to fully embrace AI agents for software development and business operations. DHH specifically credits Lütke as the individual who “saw this and saw the changes that were coming from it way earlier than I did” — consistently sharing examples and pushing others in his network to explore agent-based workflows.
Shopify’s internal adoption of AI tools has been extensive, with Lütke publicly stating that AI proficiency is now a baseline expectation for all Shopify employees.
Video Mentions
DHH credits Toby Lütke as the person who saw the AI agent revolution coming two years before most, constantly sharing examples