Stripe cut payment integration timelines from up to 6 months to 2–6 weeks using coding agents. The useful detail: their first orchestrator was also an LLM. It was expensive, slow, and sometimes did
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Stripe coding agents: orchestrator LLM cost/performance tradeoff
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The useful detail: their first orchestrator was also an LLM.
It was expensive, slow, and sometimes did
> Stripe coding agents: orchestrator LLM cost/performance tradeoff
Stripe cut payment integration timelines from up to 6 months to 2–6 weeks using coding agents.
The useful detail: their first orchestrator was also an LLM.
It was expensive, slow, and sometimes did the task itself instead of delegating, eating up its own context.
Their conclusion: predictable coordination belongs in code.
The factory uses 100+ reusable prompts, agents working on separate steps, human review, and contract tests built from real partner sandbox responses.
In one comparison, the same integration task took ~20 engineering days with vanilla Claude Code versus 4 with reusable pr
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