Andrew McNamara
@Drewch
Building Sidekick @Shopify | Director of Machine Learning Engineering | Bringing AI to entrepreneurs | Bush Pilot | Maple Syrup Producer http://settingnorth.com
The right way to leverage LLMs is not to think about how can an LLM solve your task, but how can you change your task more closely aligned with the distribution of LLM training data (the internet).
Just used Shopify sidekick for the first time It's genuinely crazy as hell
Come find me at the @Shopify booth at ICML this week.
we’re here!!!! booth 221 at icml 🤩
Talking with @tempor1s at ICML at 4:30pm on “Building Production Ready Agentic Systems: Architecture, LLM-based evals, and GRPO training”. See you there!
✨Want to know how we do it? Catch our ICML 2025 Expo Talk "Building Production Ready Agentic Systems: Architecture, LLM-based Evaluation, and GRPO Training" (onsite Monday, 4:30 PDT) to learn all about Sidekick. Preview it in action at shopify.com/magic#demo
it's almost tiiiime!!! can't wait to see @Drewch and Ben talk Sidekick at ICML. 4:30PM PST ✨ 😍
✨Want to know how we do it? Catch our ICML 2025 Expo Talk "Building Production Ready Agentic Systems: Architecture, LLM-based Evaluation, and GRPO Training" (onsite Monday, 4:30 PDT) to learn all about Sidekick. Preview it in action at shopify.com/magic#demo
What would I do without you @Shopify Sidekick..... and also @seempaq
I really like the term “context engineering” over prompt engineering. It describes the core skill better: the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM.
I really like the term “context engineering” over prompt engineering. It describes the core skill better: the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM.
Looking forward to meeting folks at Toronto Tech Week tomorrow at the @Shopify tech talks. We are going to talk about Sidekick and LLM era evals. Sneak peak: it's more than just vibes.
Re-imaging the OSI stack in age of AI will be the foundation for the next 50 years w/ @tobi @chamath at Toronto Tech Week 2025
don’t forget to support your local maple syrup producer! (mine’s @Drewch) @Shopify Sidekick: powered by maple butter 🍁🧈
Most Shopify store owners are drowning in dashboards and reports when the data they need is one prompt away. That's why we built a prompt library that turns Shopify Sidekick into your data analyst: – pull revenue trends without touching a spreadsheet – spot your best-selling…
I used @Shopify's sidekick to embed a playlist for my new Tomato and Arugula Candle! Thanks @Drewch! Only took one prompt ☺️