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Episode: Shopify Winter ’26 Edition: building faster with the Dev MCP server with Eytan Seidman
Description: Eytan Seidman, VP of product at Shopify, joins the podcast to unpack Shopify's Winter '26 Edition and how AI is emerging into the market for developers and merchants.
They discuss the new Dev MCP server, showing how tools like Cursor and Claude Desktop can rapidly scaffold Shopify apps, wire up Shopify functions, and ship payment customization and checkout UI extension experiences that lean on Shopify primitives like meta fields and meta objects across online stores and point of sale.
Eytan also breaks down how Sidekick connects with apps, why the new analytics API and ShopifyQL open fresh...