Bart Grudka

PROXIMITY ≠ PRODUCTIVITY. I haven't been in an office in 4 years. I've never shipped more. Different country. 7-hour timezone gap. Rarely on camera. Some companies still don't get it. The market does.

Page speed isn't a dev metric. It's a revenue lever. Every extra second of load time costs you conversions. Every Core Web Vital fail costs you rankings. Most teams treat it as cleanup. The best treat it as growth.

@kurtinc Highly unlikely there's any piece of new software that is 100% no-AI nowadays.

There's a lot of AI slop out there. Is the problem AI or lazy execution? The same people churning out slop with AI were probably churning out slop without it too.

@KaiXCreator LCP

I'm a frontend developer, scare me with one word

@vivoplt I save another $180 for Claude Max 20x

Developers, you have $20. What are you buying ? -Claude -Codex

Most Shopify stores have 30+ apps installed. Most are draining performance and revenue. Audit your stack. Kill what doesn't directly drive sales. Watch your conversion rate climb.

@alexwtlf I use both simultanously. Codex is more stable. What I dislike about it is it tends to overcomplicate things which makes me less productive.

Has anyone actually switched from Claude Code to Codex?

Most e-commerce teams are drowning in manual work and calling it "process." A year ago, we decided to stop. We went all-in on AI across every part of our operation - product catalog, order processing, reporting, and inventory management. Not just one department. Everything. Some things are fully automated. Others have AI assisting a human in the loop. The goal isn't to replace people; it's to eliminate repetitive work so they can focus on what matters. The hardest part? It was never the tech. It was investing the time to build it when everyone wanted the manual fix "just this once." That "just this once" is why most teams never scale. What's the one thing in your operation you'd automate first?

We rebuilt our entire Shopify storefront from scratch during a rebrand. The result: product page conversion rate doubled. It wasn't one big change. It was dozens of small ones - faster load times, cleaner layouts, fewer distractions in the buying flow, accessibility fixes nobody asked for. CRO isn't a project. It's a habit.

@mikepotter @Shopify Clever advertising

The new @Shopify AI Toolkit is insane. You know what else is insane? Running it without a backup on your store. apps.shopify.com/backup

@Shopify Can't wait to try it out!

the Shopify AI Toolkit is here manage your store with your favorite agent Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, and more

I started as a designer. Then taught myself to code. Then spent 5 years leading front-end for WellBefore's e-commerce. Now I run the whole e-commerce operation. Nobody planned that career path. It just happened because I kept saying yes to problems outside my job title. The biggest jump wasn't technical - it was going from "build what they ask for" to "figure out what we should build." That shift changes everything. #ecommerce #shopify #career