在“教学车间”中学习：公开协作与渗透式学习
Learning on the Shop floor
Shopify创始人Tobias Lütke介绍了公司内部的编码智能体工具River，其独特之处在于完全在Slack公共频道中运行，拒绝私聊，确保所有对话可被搜索且任何员工都能参与。Lütke的个人频道已有超100人参与互动、补充背景或协助审查，形成了一个“教学车间”。这种模式通过公开工作实现渗透式学习，无需正式课程或管理计划，让员工在观察与协作中自然成长。文章同时类比了Midjourney早期在Discord公共频道的成功，认为公开分享提示词有效促进了集体学习与早期发展。
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11th May 2026 - Link Blog
Learning on the Shop floor. Tobias Lütke describes Shopify's internal coding agent tool, River, which operates entirely in public on their Slack:
River does not respond to direct messages. She politely declines and suggests to create a public channel for you and her to start working in. I myself work with river in
#tobi_riverchannel and many followed this pattern. Every conversation is therefore searchable. Anyone at Shopify can jump in. In my own channel, there are over 100 people who, react to threads, add color and add context, pick up the torch, help with the reviews, remind me how rusty I am, and importantly, learn from watching. [...]As so often with German, there is a word for the kind of environment: Lehrwerkstatt. Literally: A teaching workshop. The whole shop floor is the classroom. You learn by being near the work. Being a constant learner is one of the core values of the firm.
Shopify wants to be a Lehrwerkstatt at scale and River has now gotten us closer to this ideal than ever. It’s osmosis learning, because it does not require a curriculum, a training plan, or a manager. It just requires everyone's work to be visible to the maximum extent possible. Everyone learns from each other.
I'm reminded of how Midjourney spent its first few years with the primary interface being public Discord channels, forcing users to share their prompts and learn from each other's experiments. I continue to believe that the early success of Midjourney was tied to this mechanism, helping to compensate for how weird and finicky text-to-image prompting is.
11th May 2026
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