# Anthropic — Inside Shopify's AI strategy with CTO Mikhail Parakhin

- Company: Anthropic (anthropic.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-08T16:30:45+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GtcbnmldcY
- Record: https://forck.live/items/19922-inside-shopify-s-ai-strategy-with-cto-mikhail-parakhin
- Models affected: Claude

Shopify's CTO Mikhail Parakhin describes the company's AI strategy, which includes giving every engineer unlimited tokens for Claude, always using the largest available model, and building a digital twin of the company to predict merchant growth. He explains that the real value of working with Claude is in building things that were not possible before, and recommends a barbell strategy for getting the most out of the AI.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GtcbnmldcY:

> Shopify's CTO on how Shopify uses Claude: unlimited tokens for everyone, always the largest model, and a digital twin of the company.

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