Shopify
Cost and speed

Autoresearch isn’t just for training models

Our short summary of Shopify’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.

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Problem

CI runs take 30 minutes, delaying developers from knowing if their changes break things.

Solution

They built an Autoresearch loop that acts like an AI researcher, automatically tries performance tricks and searches internal docs to speed up build and test times.

Want the architecture, code and numbers? They’re in the original post.

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