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today's my 1st anniversary at Shopify - it's borderline insane how much the role of software engineer has shifted in a year. Been in this company genuinely feels like living at the bleeding edge at what coding is shaping up to be:

Literally today (not making this up) I was coding our Shop mobile apps with my local agents, in parallel reviewing/tophatting a colleague's PR, hit a bug while testing it, spun up a different agent to help me debug it, figured out it was a backend issue,

that then River went ahead and took care of until the PR was ready to go and CI was green. It did loop on that PR basically unsupervised, while I was digging deeper with a secondary River instance into the details and impact of the bug across prod, looking through data.

I've hit that bug around 10:30am, and by... somewhen between 2 and 3pm, the fix rolled out in prod - after some backenders and colleagues from the area owning team were looped into the whole situation and reviewed&approved my River PR.