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Comment by bhouston | Hacker News Reader

Is there a long-term Shopify status graph? How common is this lately?

I ask because with the major AI push at Shopify lately, I would like to know if it is affecting stability.

I don't like how Shopify deletes events from https://www.shopifystatus.com/ shortly after they are resolved. Outages have to be inferred by waking up to a bunch of alerts and hoping someone else posted about it on the internet.

X has always been a better source of outages than any official status site. It's either early, before there's anything official posted, or it's something the vendor doesn't consider worthy of an outage because it only affects a particular subset of customers.

I started scraping the Shopify status page every 5 minutes back in March of 2015 so I have more than 11 years of history.

This isn't the first outage and won't be the last but it's one of the most disruptive in recent memory.

You should publish that as a new page. It would be good to have that history.

I have a friend at shopify in a staff role and they are so incredibly into AI it's fascinating. Even their job interviews are all about using AI and the traditional algorithm questions are gone. PRs written by AI, and PRs reviewed by AI and rubber stamped by humans.

I can't speak to stability but I get the impression it's a poster child for being all in on AI, moreso than other tech companies. By far.

Tobi Lutke is known to be an eccentric. I listened to an interview a few years ago. Clearly smart and forward thinking. He's also polarizing. He's very into optimize everything, systems thinking. Hard to say it's wrong but definitely comes off a bit cold.

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