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How is this already #1 on the front page with 12 upvotes and 9 comments… The article doesn’t reveal much. It feels like a fluff piece, and I can’t comprehend w

How is this already #1 on the front page with 12 upvotes and 9 comments… The article doesn’t reveal much. It feels like a fluff piece, and I can’t comprehend what the goal of sharing “we use AI agents” means for the dev community, with little to no examples to share. For a “dev” micro blog, this feels very lackluster. Maybe the Minion could have helped with the technical docs? EDIT: slightly adjusts tinfoil hat minutes later it’s at #6

netule 8mo ago
Stripe was launched through Y Combinator. It makes sense for their stuff to quickly bubble to the top of their news aggregator.
BiteCode_dev 8mo ago
Likely they have whitelisted domaine names that go straight to the home page. Would make sense to put all Y combinator ex and new startup sites. Marketting is a major goal of HN after all.
- handfuloflight 8mo ago
  your absolut lee r8
- dewey 8mo ago
  Or the simpler explanation (which is probably closer to the truth): Stripe is a very popular company on HN as many people use them, their founders sometimes comment here and if they share their opinion on something people pay attention and upvote it.
  - nullstyle 8mo ago
    Or the even simpler explanation, that whenever Stripe posts a blog post, they have nine or 10 employees waiting to upvote it the moment it goes live.
  - BiteCode_dev 8mo ago
    Doesn't explain how you get to the frontpage with less than 20 upvotes magically.
    - steveklabnik 8mo ago
      You only need about 4 upvotes in the first 20 minutes or so to get on the front page. It's the same for every story.
nylonstrung 8mo ago
It has all the trappings of NIH syndrome. Reinventing the wheel without explaining why existing tools didn't work Creating buzzwords ("blueprints" "devboxes") for concepts that are not novel and already have common terms Yet they embrace MCP of all things as a transport layer- the one part of the common "agentic" stack that genuinely sucks and needs to be reinvented
- throwaway-aws9 8mo ago
  resume driven development
- CuriouslyC 8mo ago
  I was an early MCP hater, but one thing I will say about it is that it's useful as a common interface for secure centralization. I can control auth and policy centrally via a MCP gateway in a way that would be much harder if I had to stitch together API proxies, CLIs, etc to provide capabilities.
- __float 8mo ago
  What are the common terms for those? (I have heard "devbox" across multiple companies, and I'm not in the LLM world enough to know the other parts.)
- menaerus 8mo ago
  They mention "Why did we build it ourselves" in the part1 series: https://stripe.dev/blog/minions-stripes-one-shot-end-to-end-coding-agents https://stripe.dev/blog/minions-stripes-one-shot-end-to-end-... However, it is also light on material. I would also like to hear more technical details, they're probably intentionally secretive about it. But I do, however, understand that building an agent that is highly optimized for your own codebase/process is possible. In fact, I am pretty sure many companies do that but it's not yet in the ether. Otherwise, one of the most interesting bits from the article was > Over 1,300 Stripe pull requests (up from 1,000 as of Part 1) merged each week are completely minion-produced, human-reviewed, but containing no human-written code.
  - 8mo ago
PunchyHamster 8mo ago
well, it's very important, now you know the financial code is handled by a bunch of barely supervised AI tools and can make decisions on whether to use product or not based on that

netule 8mo ago

Stripe was launched through Y Combinator. It makes sense for their stuff to quickly bubble to the top of their news aggregator.

BiteCode_dev 8mo ago

Likely they have whitelisted domaine names that go straight to the home page. Would make sense to put all Y combinator ex and new startup sites. Marketting is a major goal of HN after all.

handfuloflight 8mo ago
your absolut lee r8
dewey 8mo ago
Or the simpler explanation (which is probably closer to the truth): Stripe is a very popular company on HN as many people use them, their founders sometimes comment here and if they share their opinion on something people pay attention and upvote it.
- nullstyle 8mo ago
  Or the even simpler explanation, that whenever Stripe posts a blog post, they have nine or 10 employees waiting to upvote it the moment it goes live.
- BiteCode_dev 8mo ago
  Doesn't explain how you get to the frontpage with less than 20 upvotes magically.
  - steveklabnik 8mo ago
    You only need about 4 upvotes in the first 20 minutes or so to get on the front page. It's the same for every story.

nylonstrung 8mo ago

It has all the trappings of NIH syndrome. Reinventing the wheel without explaining why existing tools didn't work Creating buzzwords ("blueprints" "devboxes") for concepts that are not novel and already have common terms Yet they embrace MCP of all things as a transport layer- the one part of the common "agentic" stack that genuinely sucks and needs to be reinvented

throwaway-aws9 8mo ago
resume driven development
CuriouslyC 8mo ago
I was an early MCP hater, but one thing I will say about it is that it's useful as a common interface for secure centralization. I can control auth and policy centrally via a MCP gateway in a way that would be much harder if I had to stitch together API proxies, CLIs, etc to provide capabilities.
__float 8mo ago
What are the common terms for those? (I have heard "devbox" across multiple companies, and I'm not in the LLM world enough to know the other parts.)
menaerus 8mo ago
They mention "Why did we build it ourselves" in the part1 series: https://stripe.dev/blog/minions-stripes-one-shot-end-to-end-coding-agents https://stripe.dev/blog/minions-stripes-one-shot-end-to-end-... However, it is also light on material. I would also like to hear more technical details, they're probably intentionally secretive about it. But I do, however, understand that building an agent that is highly optimized for your own codebase/process is possible. In fact, I am pretty sure many companies do that but it's not yet in the ether. Otherwise, one of the most interesting bits from the article was > Over 1,300 Stripe pull requests (up from 1,000 as of Part 1) merged each week are completely minion-produced, human-reviewed, but containing no human-written code.
- 8mo ago

PunchyHamster 8mo ago

well, it's very important, now you know the financial code is handled by a bunch of barely supervised AI tools and can make decisions on whether to use product or not based on that