Software engineer, Leverage team, Stripe.
Software engineer on the Leverage team, which builds internal products that Stripe staff use to be more productive. Wrote the two-part Minions series on the Stripe developer blog.
Why their word counts: 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.
Profile from this source, checked 2026-10-19.
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.
Over a thousand pull requests merged each week at Stripe are completely minion-produced
Alistair GraySoftware engineer, Leverage team · Practitioner, Stripe
Post: Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents, Stripe developer blog, February 9, 2026.
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.
we built a central internal MCP server called Toolshed, which hosts more than 400 MCP tools
Alistair GraySoftware engineer, Leverage team · Practitioner, Stripe
Post: Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents, Stripe developer blog, February 9, 2026.
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.