Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else

Business Insider | 17-09-2026 11:18am |

Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke said in a podcast interview that AI-generated material, which he calls slop grenades, is creating extra work for employees. He explained that such content is poorly vetted and forces coworkers to review, fix, or summarize it. While Shopify has embraced AI internally, Lütke stressed that humans must remain responsible for quality. He gave an example of an unnecessarily long AI-written email that required another AI tool to summarize.

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