Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke coins "slop grenades": unchecked AI output others must clean up
blaizedsouza · x · 2026-09-15
- Shopify co-founder and CEO Tobi Lütke coined the term "slop grenades" in his third interview with Shane Parrish: letting AI produce work and passing it on without adding any value — including checking it.
- "You save time and look productive, but someone else pays for it" — a colleague has to wade through the output, catch mistakes, and clean up.
- The wide-ranging podcast also covers Shopify's internal AI tool River, AI for strategic decision-making, whether CEOs will be replaced, superintelligence control, and what AI is making worse at Shopify.
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