Joe Rinaldi Johnson 🇺🇦

Senior Product Lead @shopify. Views my own.

[Joe Rinaldi Johnson 🇺🇦 @joerj]

If you're a PM or people manager, I'd thoroughly recommend The Look & Sound of Leadership podcast for leadership and communication coaching tips. European friends: it's very, very American - but go with it. Thanks @shreyas for the tip.

[Joe Rinaldi Johnson 🇺🇦 @joerj]

@james_mccomish @UKParliament @claudeai Very cool.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Some very simple math: if a country has 5% of the world's population and ability is evenly distributed, then 95% of the people who are best at any given thing will be born abroad.

[Joe Rinaldi Johnson 🇺🇦 @joerj]

An industrial beauty.
Strongly recommend reading Dyson's book 'Invention' for more of the how and why. An incredible story.

[NXT EU @NXT4EU]

These @Dyson strawberries are from an advanced fully automated farm.

Europe is a leader in Agri-Tech! 🇪🇺

[Joe Rinaldi Johnson 🇺🇦 @joerj]

Imagine if this were the default global meeting culture.

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

This is brilliant.

'I write a paragraph about why I should take a meeting.'

If you should take the meeting it's easy to do, but if you start writing and you're like “I don’t want to do this,” then the meeting is a waste of time.

"For the things that I think are really important when I’m like, “I got to write that paragraph, I could write 20 pages. It's easy”

A lot of otherwise smart people, don't spend enough time thinking about what they're working on.

[Mani Fazeli @mcfazeli]

We just handed a commerce stack to EVERY developer in the world!!!

Catalog, cart, checkout, all through one protocol. Access to billions of products across the best brands on the internet.

@igrigorik’s got the full rundown👇 🤯

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

People freaking out over my AI spend. What nobody sees: Part of what excites me so much about working on OpenClaw is that I'm trying to answer the question:

How would we build software in the future if tokens don't matter?

We constant run ~100 codex in the cloud, reviewing every PR, every issue. If a fix on main lands, @clawsweeper will eventually find that 6 month old issue and close it with an exact reference.

We run codex on every commit to review for security issues (as it's far too easy to miss).

We run codex to de-duplicate issues and find clusters and send reports for the most pressing issues.

We have agents that can recreate complex setups, spin up ephemeral https://t.co/Q1NRXLemEy machines, log into e.g. Telegram, make a video and post before/after fix on the PR.

There's codex that watch new issues and - if it fits our documented vision well, automatically create a PR of it. (that then another codex reviews)

We have codex running that scans comments for spam and blocks people.

We have codex instances running that verify performance benchmarks and report regressions into Discord.

We have agents that listen on our meetings and proactively start work, e.g. create PRs when we discuss new features while we discuss them.

We build https://t.co/bmA1XnoB7P to split all our projects into functional units to review and find bugs and regresssions.

We do the same split for security with Vercel's deepsec and Codex Security to find regressions and vulnerabilities.

All that automation allows us to run this project extremely lean.

[Patrick Ryan @ry_paddy]

ppl are so overly negative about the UK vs reality.
- 4 of top 10 universities globally
- third largest VC market globally behind only USA, China. 1/3 of all VC in europe
- powerhouse in creative industries - second largest music exporter in the world
- largest biotech ecosystem in europe - massive growth sector in the coming years
- London is the top western hub for AI after Silicon Valley.
- excellent financial services base and broader services economy. Number one for FX, number two for PE and Hedge Funds
- produces 20% of global offshore wind

TLDR UK is overwhelmingly a top 3 or top 5 player globally across finance, law, defence, biotech, clean energy, creative industries, and tech (especially AI)

We are incredibly well positioned for the future.
We have a number of problems we need to fix - I believe we will do so.
Extremely bullish on this country

[Siavash @siavashg]

https://t.co/pladtgjOgW

[Joe Rinaldi Johnson 🇺🇦 @joerj]

@rousseaukazi I’d happily be an early reader. Very much looking forward to this!

[Ahmed Elsakaan @ixahmedxi]

PLEASE use pnpm & set a minimumReleaseAge of 7 days

[Joe Rinaldi Johnson 🇺🇦 @joerj]

Being a PM at Shopify is like being a kid in a toy shop. River is one of about 1000 ludicrously cool AI toys we can play with any time of night or day, solo or multiplayer.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

https://t.co/5MJ7u1VHwf

[Joe Rinaldi Johnson 🇺🇦 @joerj]

@oliverhenry Human here. I love it and have personally convinced others to use it. It’s faster, less buggy and better at improving itself.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

https://t.co/5MJ7u1VHwf

[Joe Rinaldi Johnson 🇺🇦 @joerj]

This is the way. Every consumer tech product now must come with a consumer grade agentic API. And yes there is now a difference between a consumer grade API and a developer grade API.

[Philipp Schmid @_philschmid]

Yesterday Fitbit Air launched, but did you know it comes with a new @googlehealth API? You can build AI agents, MCP servers, or CLIs on top of your sleep and heat data.

- 31 different data points from exercise to sleep, heart rate, or SpO2.
- Webhooks push real-time notifications when health data changes.
- Support Read or write data, request only the permissions you need.
- Query by time range, roll up daily summaries, or paginate results.

I am whoop guy, but might be good reason to explore this. Full getting started codelab below.👇🏻

[Joe Rinaldi Johnson 🇺🇦 @joerj]

Building blocks for the future of commerce. Let’s go!!

[Mani Fazeli @mcfazeli]

BIG NEWS! @Amazon, @Meta, @Microsoft, @Salesforce, and @Stripe are joining forces with us (@Shopify, @Google, and other founding members) to truly make UCP the single, universal protocol for commerce in the agentic era. 🎉🚀

[Joe Rinaldi Johnson 🇺🇦 @joerj]

There’s a new job that’s been born: “Agent experience designer”. Many of us are doing it without a title.

It’s UX but for agents. Clearer instructions. Fewer steps. Fewer tokens burned. Features to make their lives easier. Safety considerations.

We agent-test our products with them and ask ourselves: were diverse models able to use this thing? Where did they get confused or stuck? Did we get the interface design right - CLI, API, MCP?

Enjoying this a lot 😄

[Joe Rinaldi Johnson 🇺🇦 @joerj]

Feeling the AGI!!

[Daniel Wortel-London @dlondonwortel]

It’s not just new, it’s newspeak

[Joe Rinaldi Johnson 🇺🇦 @joerj]

@Legendaryy Both at the same time at the moment. But leaning towards Hermes. Faster and more competent!

[Seb Johnson @SebJohnsonUK]

Anthropic has announced that it is massively expanding its London presence.

It’s just secured a new office for 800 people - a huge jump from its 200 current employees.

OpenAI announced its first permanent office in London this week and now @AnthropicAI is doubling down.

Meta, OpenAI, DeepMind, wayve and so many others have huge offices in London.

It’s becoming the leading AI hub outside of the US.

LETS GO