Over 1,300 Stripe pull requests (up from 1,000 as of Part 1) merged each week are completely minion-produced
Alistair GraySoftware engineer, Leverage team · Practitioner, 
Stripe
Post: Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents—Part 2, Stripe developer blog, February 19, 2026.
Alistair Gray, Software engineer, Leverage team. Works on the team that builds the internal tooling Gray writes about; an employee describing the employer's own tool, so Gray has reason to present it well.
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Stripe’s enormous preexisting battery of tests—over three million of them—can provide this feedback.
Alistair GraySoftware engineer, Leverage team · Practitioner, Stripe
Post: Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents—Part 2, Stripe developer blog, February 19, 2026.
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