Shopify's head of engineering says token leaderboards were a mistake — so they killed it.
Now they're focused on leverage: distilling frontier models into narrow ones that are 30x cheaper and sometimes beat the teacher model on accuracy.
Farhan Thawar on how Shopify actually builds with AI in the latest Beyond the Pilot 🎙️
A new Stanford framework called a decentralized language model, or DeLM, is built on the premise that #AI# agents can coordinate directly, without routing every update through a central controller.
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