Shopify CEO criticizes employees' 'slop grenades'
The gist
Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke said AI lets staff toss "slop grenades" at coworkers.
The complaint lands at a company that already mandates AI use internally.
How it unfolded
- Sep 17, 2026In an interview on "The Knowledge Project" podcast released Tuesday, Lütke said AI helps employees produce more material more quickly without taking responsibility for whether it is useful or correct, and that "We call those 'slop grenades' that people toss at each other."
- Sep 17, 2026Lütke said Shopify's internal agent, River, handles a large share — possibly as much as half — of the company's production code pull requests. Shopify did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
- Sep 18, 2026Yahoo Finance reported Lütke said AI is helping workers produce more output, but the quality of it is so bad that their colleagues have to spend more time fixing it.