Ryan is joined by Vanessa Lee, VP of Product at Shopify, to discuss how AI is a tech renaissance and how these new technologies are affecting the ecommerce world. They cover the development of Sidekick, their new tool, along with the general challenges of building AI tools, the importance of maintaining human oversight in AI, and what the future holds for personalized user experiences in ecommerce.&nbsp;Episode notes:&nbsp;&nbsp;We spoke with Shopify about how they’re building developer-focused AI products last May; you can <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/05/30/getting-rid-of-the-pain-for-developers-on-shopify/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">check it out here</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.shopify.com/magic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sidekick</a> is Shopify’s new AI assistant that combines commerce knowledge with advanced reasoning. Learn more about how Shopify is using AI agents to evolve their product taxonomy at scale <a href="https://shopify.engineering/product-taxonomy-at-scale" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">on their blog</a>.Connect with Vanessa on <a href="https://x.com/vlaurenlee" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.&nbsp;Congrats to user <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/939860/erwin-brandstetter" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Erwin Brandstetter</a> for winning a Great Answer badge for their answer to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14035883/how-to-convert-empty-to-null-in-postgresql" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How to convert empty to null in PostgreSQL?</a>.<a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/01/09/every-ecommerce-hero-needs-a-sidekick" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TRANSCRIPT</a>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

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