Engineers at Stripe have developed Minions, autonomous coding agents capable of completing software development tasks end-to-end from a single instruction. The system integrates large language models (LLMs) with internal developer tooling to generate production-ready pull requests with minimal human intervention. Stripe engineers reported that Minions now produce over 1,300 pull requests per week, up from 1,000 in earlier trials. All changes are human-reviewed but contain no human-written code.
The code managed by Minions supports more than $1 trillion in annual payment volume at Stripe and operates across complex dependencies with financial institutions, regulatory frameworks, and compliance obligations. Reliability and correctness remain central to deploying…