Shopify
Coding agents

Under the River

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

Engineers faced slow feedback and difficult code changes across many repositories.

Solution

They created River, a Slack AI agent, and rebuilt their infrastructure into a single repo with fast CI, caching, and reproducible environments so the agent could help with code tasks.

One in eight merged PRs co‑authored by River

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

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