{"id":535098,"date":"2026-03-14T03:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/535098\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T03:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:40:14","slug":"shopify-ceo-tobi-lutke-used-ai-to-build-his-own-mri-viewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/535098\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopify CEO Tobi L\u00fctke Used AI to Build His Own MRI Viewer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                      2026-03-13T21:32:06.943Z<\/p>\n<p>                              Share<\/p>\n<p>                            Copy link<br \/>\n                                  <a class=\"dropdown-item label-md\" data-email=\"\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Shopify CEO Tobi L\u00fctke let AI read his MRI, and build the software to do it&amp;body=Shopify%20CEO%20Tobi%20L%C3%BCtke%20let%20AI%20read%20his%20MRI%2C%20and%20build%20the%20software%20to%20do%20it%0D%0A%0D%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fshopify-ceo-tobi-lutke-used-ai-build-own-mri-viewer-2026-3&amp;\" title=\"Email\" aria-label=\"Click to email\" data-utm-term=\"\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;click_url&quot;:&quot;mailto:?subject=Shopify CEO Tobi L\u00fctke let AI read his MRI, and build the software to do it&amp;body=Shopify%20CEO%20Tobi%20L%C3%BCtke%20let%20AI%20read%20his%20MRI%2C%20and%20build%20the%20software%20to%20do%20it%0D%0A%0D%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fshopify-ceo-tobi-lutke-used-ai-build-own-mri-viewer-2026-3&amp;&quot;,&quot;share_type&quot;:&quot;email&quot;,&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;sharebar&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                            Email<br \/>\n                          <\/a>        <\/p>\n<p>                            Facebook<\/p>\n<p>                            WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>                            X<\/p>\n<p>                            LinkedIn<\/p>\n<p>                            Bluesky<\/p>\n<p>                            Threads<\/p>\n<p>                            lighning bolt icon<br \/>\n                            An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt.<\/p>\n<p>                            Impact Link<\/p>\n<p>                        Save<br \/>\n                        Saved<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"d-md-none app-button\" data-app-button=\"\" data-only-on=\"mobile\" data-component-type=\"app-button\" data-load-strategy=\"lazy\" title=\"Download the app\" aria-label=\"Click to download the app\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/insider-app.onelink.me\/4cpG\/?af_js_web=true&amp;af_ss_ver=2_3_0&amp;af_dp=insider%3A%2F%2Fbi%2Fpost%2Fshopify-ceo-tobi-lutke-used-ai-build-own-mri-viewer-2026-3&amp;af_force_deeplink=true&amp;is_retargeting=true&amp;deep_link_value=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fshopify-ceo-tobi-lutke-used-ai-build-own-mri-viewer-2026-3&amp;pid=businessinsider&amp;c=post_page_share_bar_v2_smart_4.13.23\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;event&quot;:&quot;app_cta&quot;,&quot;click_text&quot;:&quot;read_in_app&quot;,&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;sharebar&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>                      Read in app<\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                              Loading audio narration&#8230;\n                            <\/p>\n<p>              This story is available exclusively to Business Insider<br \/>\n                subscribers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/subscription\" class=\"subscription-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Become an Insider<\/a><br \/>\n                and start reading now.<br \/>\n              Have an account? Log in.<\/p>\n<p>Shopify CEO <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/shopify-ceo-how-to-manage-founders-company-acquisitions-tobi-lutke-2026-1\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tobi L\u00fctke<\/a> recently <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tobi\/status\/2010438500609663110?s=20\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;click_type&quot;:&quot;other&quot;,&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;outbound_click&quot;}\" rel=\" nofollow\">shared<\/a> how he used AI to create software for an incredibly niche, but important, situation.<\/p>\n<p>His annual MRI scan comes on a USB stick, but requires commercial Windows software to open. Instead of going in search of this existing software, he ran Anthropic&#8217;s Claude AI model directly on the MRI files and prompted it to build a web-based viewer.<\/p>\n<p>The result, he said, looked &#8220;way better.&#8221; With one more prompt, the tool even annotated the images with the findings from the scan.<\/p>\n<p>L\u00fctke called this an example of &#8220;reflexively&#8221; reaching for AI \u2014 training yourself to instinctively use it to build bespoke tools when off-the-shelf software falls short.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You want to train your brain on this intuition,&#8221; he wrote in a thread on X that got more than 7.5 million views.<\/p>\n<p>This type of experimentation takes more upfront time, and it requires challenging your assumptions about how things should be done, according to <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/author\/bernard-golden\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bernard Golden<\/a>, CEO of Navica, a Silicon Valley-based technology analysis, consulting, and investment firm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to spend some brainpower to reflect on established habits to see how AI could be inserted, but doing so has a snowball effect: the more you try, the more you do,&#8221; Golden told Business Insider. &#8220;It&#8217;s like learning a language. 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