Patrick Collison on Claude Code at Stripe

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

September 24, 2026

Duration

17m

Channel

Claude

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

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

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Patrick Collison

  guest

  Co-founder and CEO of Stripe.

• Boris

  host

  Host/interviewer on the Claude channel.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Claude, featuring Patrick Collison and Boris, Patrick Collison on Claude Code at Stripe explores Stripe scales Claude Code with guardrails, velocity, and reliability intact Patrick Collison describes how Stripe pursues five-and-a-half-nines reliability while still shipping continuously by investing in rigorous, end-to-end development and rollout infrastructure.

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