eng leader @ stripe working on developer productivity and ai thingies
Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Joined January 2012
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Our team works hard to make Stripe engineers the most productive they've been in their careers. Check out this video with our friends at @clay where we talk about Orbit - our platform for managing agentic engineering work!
youtu.be/0Rqoe5quCJQ
Really cool convo between @bcherny and @patrickc on how we use Claude (Code) internally at Stripe.
Covered:
- accelerating while maintaining exceptional reliability.
- turbofast minion demo
youtu.be/S_lzYIvtEaQ?t=133
Harbor is one of the few tools I've seen at Stripe to really hit viral adoption, and transform how we do work seemingly overnight.
Excellent blog from Cristian (whose @ I can't find!)
stripe.dev/blog/harbor-strip…
Extremely fun interview. @gaybrick talks at length about how we're seeing agents change engineering, and jumps into some specifics of what our team is working on. Worth a watch!
Stripe's Will Gaybrick: "Build everything"
Against an industry that sees agents as a way to cut costs, Stripe is using them to build more: agents wrote 30% of code in a week, global tax filing shipped in 1/3 the time the US version took, and after AI made sellers 20% more productive, Stripe hired even more sellers.
President of Technology & Business @gaybrick sits down with a16z's David George to cover why there's no one left for Stripe to copy, why checkout pages will disappear, how agents plus stablecoins make micropayments real, and why tokens are becoming a currency worth protecting like dollars.
00:00 Intro
01:00 From payments to 30 products
02:30 1 in 6 free trials abused
05:50 Win the startups, then win them again
09:40 Borrowing from Google, Apple, and Ford
14:30 Minions: 7K one-shot PRs a week
18:45 Building everything vs. cutting costs
26:00 Why timelines keep compressing
29:50 What replaces the checkout page
34:20 The case against $9.99 subscriptions
37:20 Stablecoins solve a political problem
41:35 Tempo, a payments-only blockchain
43:10 Tokens are money now
49:00 How Stripe scales taste
youtube.com/watch?v=P5iICDVn…
@gaybrick @DavidGeorge83
Shep Walker retweeted
Over 1,300 Stripe pull requests merged each week are completely minion-produced, human-reviewed, but contain no human-written code (up from 1,000 last week).
How we built minions: stripe.dev/blog/minions-stri….
Second Minions blog post! Covering:
* strategic investments we've made for devs that have paid huge dividends as we build coding agents.
* agent specific stuff
* And a small metrics update to reflect the growth we've had in the past week 😉
stripe.dev/blog/minions-stri…
We build out a tool at Stripe called Minons! It makes it super easy for Stripe engineers to kick off async agents, tied into our development infrastructure - enabling us to ship faster and with higher quality.
stripe.dev/blog/minions-stri…
very fun conversation where @gaybrick talks about Minions - a tool my team built to accelerate product development with AI agents. more detailed writeup coming soon 👀
I asked @gaybrick how @stripe thinks about build vs buy in AI:
"We are constantly thinking about new ways to empower developers.
We built something cool recently called Minions. Which uses large language models to automate a lot of the run load that’s coming to our product teams.
You click a button in a Jira ticket, and a minion will go off and fix or update the thing. You’ll see the PR, then click a button to approve. And that’s getting a ton of use internally.
For us, build vs buy is dictated by just how strategic something is to the long-term arc of the company.
One of the principles that we think about a lot at Stripe is, what are the non-speculative, forever compounding investment areas? And we think developer productivity is one of those.
You make your developers happier, more productive, that’s just going to make you a better place for engineers to work every year.
And for developer productivity, we often find that our systems are so specific that building on top of them ourselves is a lot more efficient than trying to bolt things on."
Shep Walker retweeted
I asked @gaybrick how @stripe thinks about build vs buy in AI:
"We are constantly thinking about new ways to empower developers.
We built something cool recently called Minions. Which uses large language models to automate a lot of the run load that’s coming to our product teams.
You click a button in a Jira ticket, and a minion will go off and fix or update the thing. You’ll see the PR, then click a button to approve. And that’s getting a ton of use internally.
For us, build vs buy is dictated by just how strategic something is to the long-term arc of the company.
One of the principles that we think about a lot at Stripe is, what are the non-speculative, forever compounding investment areas? And we think developer productivity is one of those.
You make your developers happier, more productive, that’s just going to make you a better place for engineers to work every year.
And for developer productivity, we often find that our systems are so specific that building on top of them ourselves is a lot more efficient than trying to bolt things on."
new default Claude code prompt just dropped
a friend piped in the entire text of grugbrain.dev into Claude Code as a joke and accidentally created the perfect tool
Shep Walker retweeted
y’all actually finishing your side projects??
As @shepwalker says — the thing i love about ai coding assistants is they let me build half finished side projects at an exponential rate
Shep Walker retweeted
Many thanks to everybody who joined us online and in person for #XboxShowcase and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Direct…and to each of the creative teams whose titles were in today’s show. We have an amazing lineup of games and updates coming to Xbox, Game Pass and PC.
once again, the games✨
ALT Headline reads: “Xbox Games Showcase 2024” Underneath are 30 game logos: Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Gears of War: E-Day. DOOM: The Dark Ages. Avowed. Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. World of Warcraft: The War Within. Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Assassin’s Creed Shadows. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl. Age of Mythology: Retold. Fable. Mixtape. Perfect Dark. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. South of Midnight. Starfield Shattered Space. State of Decay 3. WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers. The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road. Metal Gear Solid ∆: Snake Eater. Fallout 76: Skyline Valley. Life is Strange: Double Exposure. Sea of Thieves. ATOMFALL. Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn. Winter Burrow. FragPunk. Mecha BREAK.
Are there any Terminals/terminal emulators that try to bring in what we've learned about IDEs in the last couple decades? In line or sidecar-ed command/arg definitions, syntax highlighting, etc?
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Shepherd: How Stripe adapted Chronon to scale ML feature development. stripe.com/blog/shepherd-how…