How AI drove Shopify back to clean code
E-commerce platform Shopify wants to make reading source code a thing again. And it has an unlikely ally for its back-to-the-roots approach: AI agents.
The company is launching a new storefront theme for its customers, aka “merchants,” that it claims is completely understandable by anyone with even a smidgen of HTML knowledge. It is designed to be simpler for both people and machines to digest and hack against.
Shopify hasn’t named this new theme yet, but is unveiling it in developer forums as the probable successor to Horizon, its current JSON-heavy base theme, which customers use to customize their own Shopify pages.
The new code is mostly HTML, interpolated by the company’s own block-based Liquid templating language, which is also fairly easy on the eyes.
When merchants peek into the templates directory of this new theme, they will see plain-text files of easy-to-parse code, not long strings of inscrutable JSON....
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