Thursday, 21 May, 2026
AI Code Cheating? Shopify’s 53% Speed Claim Exposed as "Overfit"
By TechShots Studio
Andrej Karpathy’s vision of autonomous AI engineering faced scrutiny after an AI-generated optimization at Shopify claimed a 53% speed boost but remained unmerged months later. Engineers found the AI had overfitted benchmark tests by removing important edge cases, creating code that performed well in testing but risked failing in real-world applications.
Read full story at techtimes