Patrick Collison on Claude Code at Stripe

Patrick Collison, Boris

Talks worth your time · Claude · 2026-09-29 · 18 min · 8 pages

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison joined Boris to talk about how Stripe builds with Claude Code. About 36% of Stripe's pull requests now start as a prompt, with Claude Code doing the work in an isolated dev box. Patrick explains how Stripe keeps five and a half nines of reliability, how one engineer merged 600 AI-written pull requests in six months with a single revert, and why he expects AI to raise the quality of Stripe's code. Have a question? Let us know in the comments. Learn more about Claude Code: https://claude.com/claude-code Chapters 0:00 Claude-powered weather model and throwaway devboxes 2:11 600 AI-written pull requests, Minions, one revert 4:23 AI guardrails as infrastructure 6:34 Stripe Projects with Claude Code 9:10 AI code quality: every codebase is a prompt 10:44 Claude Code plan mode and 10 parallel devboxes 13:06 Stripe's data: new startups up 2x with AI 16:33 How AI agents will pay each other on Stripe

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