Stephan Leroux

Engineering Manager @Shopify / Indie Game Dev 🚀 @lastronautgame / Previously @Mozilla, @twg

[Andrew McNamara @Drewch]

Apply now! Interns have been working on some really cool problems on the Agents team @Shopify!

[Stephan Leroux @stephanleroux]

@alenaidesign Glad you found my yearly twitter post then! Factorio and similar games show systems abstractions so clearly - happy I wasn’t the only one seeing the parallels. Good point around abstraction of specialization - niche parts can be trained and added into the mix.

[Stephan Leroux @stephanleroux]

I don't usually post on here but had this thought I might elaborate on later: If you've ever played Factorio, you know where AI is headed.

Today's world is like playing Minecraft or the very start of Factorio.

[Stephan Leroux @stephanleroux]

@robjama @tmrwai This is awesome congrats!

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Love Buffett’s response to “when did you know you were rich?”

Particularly the highlighted part.

[Stephan Leroux @stephanleroux]

AI models, AI Agents, fleets of agents - these are layers built on top of each other that have a multiplicative effect on productivity. Like in Factorio, how can we expect to go to space unless we really figure out to keep layering up? Do we really want to keep hitting at ore?

[Stephan Leroux @stephanleroux]

Gather materials by hand, painstakingly hit nodes until you get what you need. It just feels so tedious. AI brings about the meta. Automation on top of automation. We're so focused on the playing the early game that we don't realize just how many layers of automation we can have.

[Stephan Leroux @stephanleroux]

@MikkoH Wow this is super cool! I listened to the whole thing and it was spooky how good the cadence of speech was throughout

[Stephan Leroux @stephanleroux]

@jmwind Not part of the core message but love the terms gold/bronze plating specifically in the context here 👍

[Stephan Leroux @stephanleroux]

@williamhutter @elsom25 @blanklob Hey William! Thanks for finding this and sorry for the inconvenience. We've pushed out a fix for this and should be working correctly now! (Multirow/column sections on Home Page with > 1 Market setup can be connected via data source per block and repeat as expected!)

[Robleh @robjama]

Happy Boom Day!
https://t.co/D3DVbqjwlv

[Stephan Leroux @stephanleroux]

@asjonish Huuuge congrats! Excited to see what you and the crew come up with 🎉

[Maas Lalani @maaslalani]

I built a tiny tool to copy & paste unicode symbols from your terminal. Based on https://t.co/4e4zl03sDK by @traf.

https://t.co/A3CJzZGioI

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Today we celebrate entrepreneurs everywhere in style. Online and on @SphereVegas 🤩

[Stephan Leroux @stephanleroux]

@cpollo01 @getuptimeapp @WeCommerce_co Huge congrats and massive W to the Pixel Union folks! 🎉

[Jesse🇮🇱🇺🇦 @elsom25]

This gonna be you or it gonna be you? #Shopify

[Stephan Leroux @stephanleroux]

@MikkoH Agreed. I find heavy usage of acronyms ends up being an artificial barrier of entry and can lead to gate keeping which just sucks overall.

[Stephan Leroux @stephanleroux]

My twitter is filled with amazing ChatGP and other AI creations but I keep coming back to this AI generated video (meme ahead)

[chaotic era • OUT NOW ON STEAM @chaotic_era]

Chaotic Era is NOW AVAILABLE in Early Access (PC/Mac).

Survive deep space in an intense, atmospheric strategy game inspired by classic sci-fi.

Get Chaotic Era now on @itchio ➡️ https://t.co/86fuLThCWV

[Stephan Leroux @stephanleroux]

I’ve seen a lot of hot tech topics on Twitter but this discourse around nothing of value has been built in tech in the last decade has to be the worst. 🚮