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Helix: The internal tool powering our Shopify app's native migration

We built Helix to help LLMs rebuild the Shopify app in Swift and Kotlin, using small checkpoints and strict quality gates to keep the code shippable.

Helix: The internal tool powering our Shopify app's native migration

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We built Helix to help LLMs rebuild the Shopify app in Swift and Kotlin, using small checkpoints and strict quality gates to keep the code shippable.

Originally appeared on Shopify Engineering. We built Helix to help LLMs rebuild the Shopify app in Swift and Kotlin, using small checkpoints and strict quality gates to keep the code shippable.

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We built Helix to help LLMs rebuild the Shopify app in Swift and Kotlin, using small checkpoints and strict quality gates to keep the code shippable.

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