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AI was involved at every stage of building Stripe's extensibility SDK, but the story isn't that it wrote code faster. Here's how prototypes, agent-drafted specs, and persistent guidance got ideas into reviewable shape sooner.
To minimize failed payments for our users, Stripe targets 99.9995% reliability. As traffic grew beyond 1.6% of global GDP, this put intense strain on the service mesh.
The low-level code that makes a payment go through is getting cheap, fast. What is becoming valuable is the judgment above it: knowing what the money is supposed to do and making sure the code obeys it.
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