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1,000+ internal tools and skills, per-session Kubernetes sandboxes with a multi-tenant virtual filesystem, one session that ran to 932 turns, 5,000+ data analysis sessions a day. Stripe says account executives using Kai close 39% more deals (Stripe). Kai is proprietary, but the architecture writeup is a production reference for deepagents at enterprise scale, and the 932-turn session is the number that tells you their context management works.
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Stripe published Part 2 of its Minions engineering blog, and it's the most detailed production agent architecture I've read from any company this year. The numbers alone are worth the read: 1,300+ weekly merged PRs from coding agents. But the architecture decisions matter more...
TechCrunch strings together three deals: Nvidia's reported $13 billion Hugging Face acquisition, its $6 billion Poolside arrangement, and Stripe's acquisition of OpenRouter for over $7 billion about two weeks before August 28. The thesis is acquirers hedging against frontier-l...
Stripe's newsroom confirmed the deal on August 19, ending the rumor cycle Bloomberg started on the 16th. Axios puts the price above $8 billion mostly in stock, other outlets cite $7.5 billion, against OpenRouter's $1.3B Series B valuation from May. Alex Atallah promised "same...
I've been saying for months that the missing piece in agentic coding isn't smarter models. It's that agents can't provision anything. They can write code all day but the moment they need a database, an auth provider, or a hosting account, a human has to step in, click through...
1. Set package cooldown to 72 hours across all your package managers. pnpm: resolution-time=72h, uv: --exclude-newer, npm via .npmrc. This single config change would have protected you from the LiteLLM attack. Willison's survey covers all seven managers. 2. Install Lasso Secur...
Armature ran 16,893 coding sessions, 5,292 of which were valid, across 75 repositories, 10 languages, 1,163 prompt variations and 4 user personas, rotating E2B, Blaxel and Daytona sandboxes to kill provider bias. Nobody has published a controlled study at this scale before. Ar...
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