Shep Walker retweetledi
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-s….
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Shep Walker
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Shep Walker
@shepwalker
e.m. @ stripe working on developer productivity
Alexandria, Virginia, USA Katılım Ocak 2012
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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-s…
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for years I was the person saying, “nah, this isn’t worth it”… so many “not worth it”s are becoming worth it, thanks to our AI tooling
James Little@jameslittle230
Done - the minion did pretty well. Hit cmd+shift+d on docs.stripe.com to turn on dark mode.
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@jmduke do you have a filter on merged commits that determines whether they write to the change log or not?
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it is interesting that we've suddenly decided positive lines of code and numbers of pull requests are useful proxies for anything at all
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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-s…
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@shepwalker @gaybrick Thanks for sharing this! Send me the write-up when you post it
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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 👀
The Peel@ThePeelPod
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."
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Shep Walker retweetledi
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."
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new default Claude code prompt just dropped
Justin Duke@jmduke
a friend piped in the entire text of grugbrain.dev into Claude Code as a joke and accidentally created the perfect tool
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@RufusPeabody ignorant question: what's the general transferability for professional bettors? like, I'd imagine anything that is modeling+being clever is open, right? finance is obvious but there are no many applications in my world for risk modeling + some hustle.
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Now that my job has effectively been cut starting next yr, what am I going to do with the rest of my life?
Early ideas: (a) become a pilot
(b) just travel the world and play golf indefinitely
ChatGPT says (a) isn't a crazy fit
(b) could eventually feel unfulfilling and aimless
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Shep Walker retweetledi
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
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@Sourcegraph Thanks for having me! It was fun to come present with y'all.
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Impressive demo from @shepwalker using Goose and Sourcegraph's API
He uses an AI agent to call Sourcegraph as a tool to find precise references. Then applies large-scale code changes
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Supersetting: every five emails I answer means I get to brainstorm one new poorly-advised seasonal h1.
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A couple folks asked how I'm doing metrics/dashboard stuff: here is the answer. Looks complicated, but all of this was basically fixed-cost work; I just need to go in every weekend and update manual data in Google Sheets and the rest is on autopilot.
(Fivetran has a generous free plan; Redshift's cost rounds down to zero; Metabase is not cheap [$90/mo], but not so expensive that I want to spend the time self-hosting.)
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