# Shopify Gave AI to Everyone. Production Bugs Went Up.

- slug: shopify-gave-ai-to-everyone-production-bugs-went-up
- date: 2026-04-22
- category: Agentics

Shopify gave every employee unlimited AI access and set a minimum bar of Claude Opus 4.6. Adoption hit near 100%. Code quality averages improved. Production bug rates also went up — and the reason why is the most honest thing a CTO has said about AI coding in 2026.

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