AI's Small Business Problem (and Shopify's Bigger One)

AI is quietly eating ecommerce, and Shopify's running out of moat. We get into Anthropic's new Cloud for Business, why 96% of AI deployments still fail, and how Stripe just made it possible for an agent to spin up a whole stack from a single command.In this episode:What Cloud for Business actually is (and whether it solves anything)Why forward deployed engineers became tech's hottest roleThe case for ditching Shopify and wipe-coding your storefront with Claude CodeStripe Projects and the rise of agent-native infrastructureWhy MCP servers are about to be unavoidableTimestamps00:00 Claude for Business: what Anthropic just launched04:25 Forward deployed engineers and the 96% failure rate09:01 Is Shopify in real trouble?12:46 What's left of Shopify's moat15:41 Stripe Projects and agent-native infrastructure19:25 Why MCP servers are about to be table stakes