while they're human-reviewed, they contain no human-written code.
Alistair GraySoftware engineer, Leverage team · Practitioner, 
Stripe
Post: Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents, Stripe developer blog, February 9, 2026.
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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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Raw curl, tags stripped. 'while they're human-reviewed, they contain no human-written code.' matches exactly, with the apostrophe normalised. The author byline is Alistair Gray.
How to cite this passage
Alistair Gray (Stripe), “Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents”, Stripe developer blog, 2026-02-09. https://stripe.dev/blog/minions-stripes-one-shot-end-to-end-coding-agents Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/stripe-while-theyre-human-reviewed-they-contain-no-2026
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Post: Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents, Stripe developer blog, February 9, 2026.
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Post: Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents, Stripe developer blog, February 9, 2026.
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