On May 6, 2026, Anthropic doubled Claude Code five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise tiers — backed by SpaceX compute infrastructure. Here are the exact new numbers and how Shopify developers should restructure bulk API jobs to take advantage now.

In 2025, I bet my entire AI business on Claude. Not ChatGPT, not Gemini — Claude. At the time it was the contrarian choice. In April 2026, Shopify made Claude Code the recommended agent for their official AI Toolkit. This is the story of why I picked Claude before the market did, what it's actually like building a production business on Anthropic's stack, and why the merchants paying attention to the tooling layer are the ones who'll dominate the next two years.

On April 9, 2026, Shopify open-sourced an AI Toolkit that hands Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and VS Code live operational control of your store. No press release. No launch event. Just a GitHub repo and a quiet post on X. Here's what actually shipped, why it matters more than Shopify let on, and how to install it in five minutes.