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 role
• The case for ditching Shopify and wipe-coding your storefront with Claude Code
• Stripe Projects and the rise of agent-native infrastructure
• Why MCP servers are about to be unavoidable

Timestamps

00:00 Claude for Business: what Anthropic just launched

04:25 Forward deployed engineers and the 96% failure rate

09:01 Is Shopify in real trouble?

12:46 What's left of Shopify's moat

15:41 Stripe Projects and agent-native infrastructure

19:25 Why MCP servers are about to be table stakes