In the AI Era, Shopify Is Investing in Junior Engineers—Not Cutting Them - CoderPad

kept by eddie apr 27

Shopify expanded its internship program 10x, betting that AI-native junior engineers are more valuable than redundant.

The Era of Tokenmaxxing
Shopify approaches 100% daily AI tool adoption among employees, with CLI tools like Claude Code and Codex gaining share while IDE-based tools decline, though top percentile token users grow faster than the rest.
also on Shopify, Cursor, Claude Code, #developer-tools
The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend - The Pragmatic Engineer
At Meta, Microsoft, and Salesforce, developers are deliberately burning AI tokens to inflate usage metrics, causing massive waste and prompting Meta to remove its internal leaderboard.
also on Shopify, Cursor, #software-engineering, #ai, #developer-tools