Ex-Shopify engineer: the smartest people I knew all left for frontier AI labs
smlpth · x · 2026-11-02
An engineer reflecting on four years at Shopify says the colleagues he thought were the smartest and most driven have gone on to build great things, earn rapid internal promotions, or move to frontier AI labs — a snapshot of AI labs' pull on top engineering talent.
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