Mark Moriarty
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Mark Moriarty
@MbyM
Positive sum. Corp Strategy & Experimental Bets @Stripe. @YCombinator Fellow. Founded @AwesoundApp. Ex @McKinsey. Quotes @WellPhrased. SLA: 98%+ good vibes

When @karpathy built MenuGen (karpathy.bearblog.dev/vibe-coding-me…), he said: "Vibe coding menugen was exhilarating and fun escapade as a local demo, but a bit of a painful slog as a deployed, real app. Building a modern app is a bit like assembling IKEA future. There are all these services, docs, API keys, configurations, dev/prod deployments, team and security features, rate limits, pricing tiers." We've all run into this issue when building with agents: you have to scurry off to establish accounts, clicking things in the browser as though it's the antediluvian days of 2023, in order to unblock its superintelligent progress. So we decided to build Stripe Projects to help agents instantly provision services from the CLI. For example, simply run: $ stripe projects add posthog/analytics And it'll create a PostHog account, get an API key, and (as needed) set up billing. Projects is launching today as a developer preview. You can register for access (we'll make it available to everyone soon) at projects.dev. We're also rolling out support for many new providers over the coming weeks. (Get in touch if you'd like to make your service available.) projects.dev

One more thing! Via Stripe Radar, you can use their (very robust) KYC services to help with anti-fraud for provisions on the services. The MAIN reason Railway hides our free plan is fraud. This lets us give more Railway to more people who need it.


The sneaky important thing that @stripe got right with Projects is that they operate as a Federated Identity Provider (effectively "Sign in with Stripe" for agents) They verify users, and Clerk trusts them, so there's no manual signup at Clerk. It's *way* less friction.





Introducing TurboQuant: Our new compression algorithm that reduces LLM key-value cache memory by at least 6x and delivers up to 8x speedup, all with zero accuracy loss, redefining AI efficiency. Read the blog to learn how it achieves these results: goo.gle/4bsq2qI

This experiment continues into 2026. I learned a lot through running this so far and blogged a bit about it here - rkirov.github.io/posts/lean_wor…. The focus remains formalized math with Lean, but supporting different projects. If you are interested - luma.com/l9pe6n7y

Businesses can now sell directly within an ad or browsing session on Facebook, powered by the Agentic Commerce Protocol and @stripe stripe.com/newsroom/news/…





Many people think it was 1 agent writing 3M+ lines of code. It's not. It was hundreds of concurrent agents. Key learnings from Cursor’s blog: - Letting many agents self-coordinate as peers does not work - Clear roles work better: planners, workers, judges - GPT-5.2 performs better on long-running tasks; Opus 4.5 tends to stop early and take shortcuts. - Adding more “management” agents often hurts performance, just like in human orgs. Turns out, scaling agents looks a lot like scaling companies.



AGI has been achieved in Ireland. Artificial Guinness Intelligence. Engineer Matt Cortland built an AI voice agent named Rachel, gave her a Northern Irish accent, and pointed her at every pub in the country. Over St. Paddy's weekend, she rang 3,000+ of them to ask one question: how much for a pint of Guinness? How he built it: ElevenLabs for the voice, Twilio and an old Irish SIM to place the calls, Google Places API to map 5,200+ pubs across all 32 counties, and Claude to parse the transcripts for prices. 2,052 picked up. Barely any even realized she was AI. The whole operation ran him about €200. The result is a live price index he's calling the Guinndex. Ireland's statistics office used to track pint prices, but stopped in 2011. An engineer with a weekend and a voice agent just picked up where they left off.




