Mar 12
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Stripe merges over 1,300 AI-written pull requests every single week. Zero human-written code. But here's what most people are missing - the real lesson is in the agent harness they have built around their coding agents. Stripe calls them "blueprints" - workflows that alternate between deterministic steps (linting, type checking, CI) and agentic steps (where the AI reasons and writes code). The walls constrain the AI. The AI does the creative work. And together, they produce production-quality code at a pace most companies can't match with human developers. And Stripe isn't the only one. Shopify independently built the same architecture (Roast). Amazon used the same pattern to save 4,500 developer-years. Airbnb migrated 3,500 test files in 6 weeks with it. Every company succeeding with AI coding at scale is converging on the same hybrid deterministic-agentic workflow. In this video, I'll break down the pattern and explain what it means for how you should be thinking about AI coding. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Try Postman's New AI-Powered Platform: https://fandf.co/4l1bNwj Postman FastAPI Demo (My GitHub Repo): https://fandf.co/3OY3plf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - If you want to dive even deeper into building reliable and repeatable systems for AI coding, check out the Dynamous Community and Agentic Coding Course: https://dynamous.ai/agentic-coding-course - Stripe Minions Blog Post (Part 1): https://stripe.dev/blog/minions-stripes-one-shot-end-to-end-coding-agents - Stripe Minions Blog Post (Part 2): https://stripe.dev/blog/minions-stripes-one-shot-end-to-end-coding-agents-part-2 - Shopify Roast Framework: https://github.com/Shopify/roast ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 0:00 Stripe's 1,300 AI Pull Requests 1:56 Structured AI Workflows (The Big Unlock) 4:13 Intro to Stripe Minions 5:24 Blueprints: Workflows vs Agents 7:29 The Minion Workflow Walkthrough 8:55 Postman 10:56 Back to the Minion Walkthrough 11:10 Isolated Dev Boxes and Security 13:13 The Importance of Determinism 14:44 The PIV Loop Strategy 16:34 Tools to Build Your Own ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join me as I push the limits of what is possible with AI. I'll be uploading videos weekly - at least every Wednesday at 7:00 PM CDT!