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Building Sidekick @Shopify | Director of Machine Learning Engineering | Bringing AI to entrepreneurs | Bush Pilot | Maple Syrup Producer https://t.co/haSezvLkIm

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I've been chatting a lot about evals for LLM systems and how to get away from "vibe evals" to statistically robust LLM as a Judge evaluations. Had an awesome chat with @andrewzigler from @DevInterrupted about @Shopify Sidekick and Vibe Entrepreneurship. 🧵.
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RT @FoxEcomOfficial: This is #ShopifySidekick's answer after scanning our tested store, and it gives us details exactly what to do to faste….
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Had a blast talking at @icmlconf 2025 this year in Vancouver talking about how you should be evaluating your agents in a robust manner. No more vibe testing!.
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@Drewch In addition to the latest blog post, our talk at #ICML2025 is now live! 📺✨ Learn about the lessons & results behind building production-ready agentic systems:
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A great prompt that I used recently to send an email/loyalty discount out to some customers who haven't ordered in a while: ."Show me my top 5 customers who make the biggest orders who haven't made an order in 3 months and draft an email to send them with a discount code for a.
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discover any cool Sidekick prompts lately?. drop your favorite 🧵.
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RT @ShopifyEng: Crafting agentic systems requires smart architecture, rigorous evaluation, & relentless failure-proofing. 🏗️🧪.Director of M….
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Learn how we evolved our AI assistant architecture and built robust evaluation frameworks for real-world deployment
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@andrewzigler @DevInterrupted @Shopify @ShopifyEng Thanks!.
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@andrewzigler @DevInterrupted @Shopify I also wrote a @ShopifyEng Blog post on this topic:
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Learn how we evolved our AI assistant architecture and built robust evaluation frameworks for real-world deployment
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@andrewzigler @DevInterrupted @Shopify You can also check out a talk I gave at ICML this year in Vancouver with @tempor1s "Building Production Ready Agentic Systems: Architecture, LLM-based Evaluations, and GRPO Training:
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@andrewzigler @DevInterrupted @Shopify Here's a link to the @DevInterrupted podcast with @andrewzigler:
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Here is a link to the talk:
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Excited to be talking at Rails World in Amsterdam about how we are leveraging @rails for AI on @Shopify Sidekick! Let me know if you are going to be there and want to chat!
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Planes need oil changes too
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RT @ariesnotebook: Shopify Sidekick is actually a pretty cool feature.
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Looking for internship working on cutting-edge agentic systems? Apply now!.
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🚀 SHOPIFY'S INTERNSHIP APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN! .- Canada Winter 2026 (.- USA Summer 2026 (. Work on full time teams, ship to millions of merchants, using the _right_ models (no token budgets here😏). Apps close Sep15 @ midnight ET.
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Claude can be so dramatic. I just took a picture of a snapping turtle and asked how old it was, and now it’s a whole thing.
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Sidekick on Mobile + Tap to pay POS on @Shopify Mobile App has been a killer combo.
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@Shopify Shopify's Sidekick on mobile makes running a business a breeze.
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When will Facebook and Google support shop login. Shop login so much simpler.
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sign in customers in seconds. you can now add Google and Facebook sign-in options for customer accounts
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Short landing in the bay
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RT @v_d_mw: Just noticed that @Shopify now lets you complete the entire store onboarding right inside the Sidekick AI chat. Looks super sm….
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So many things shipped every week on sidekick 🚀🚀🚀.
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Shopify Sidekick keeps getting better. Today I asked it to identify top selling t-shirt sizes, and it got it right on the first try. I verified the data myself to be sure. Very convenient.
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