Developer Experience

Stripe Engineers Deploy Minions, Autonomous Agents Producing Thousands of Pull Requests Weekly

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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 … Read more

QCon London 2026: Shipping Constantly with Humans and Beyond at Monzo

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At QCon London 2026, Suhail Patel, a principal engineer at Monzo who leads the bank’s platform group, described how the bank has built a developer platform capable of shipping hundreds of changes to production every day.  Monzo operates on a microservices architecture of over 3,000 services, all written in a uniform style using a bootstrap … Read more

Windsurf Introduces Arena Mode to Compare AI Models During Development

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Windsurf has introduced Arena Mode inside its IDE allowing developers to compare large language models side by side while working on real coding tasks. The feature is designed to let users evaluate models directly within their existing development context, rather than relying on public benchmarks or external evaluation websites. Arena Mode runs two Cascade agents … Read more

QCon London 2025 Day 1: Parsing Data from Space, Developer Joy, Local First Apps, Platforms

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Day One of the 19th annual QCon London conference was held on April 7th, 2025, at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, England. Key takeaways included: developer joy increases developer productivity; platforms are “not an island,” but organizations adopting them do so within an ecosystem; collaborative software can be fragile; and local-first software … Read more