Stripe says the factory has created three new payment method integrations and migrated ten existing ones, cutting integration timelines "from as long as six months to two-to-six weeks." These are Stripe's own figures. In one bake-off, two…
In the News: October 2, 2026 (Morning)
Stripe says moving orchestration from an LLM into code fixed its payment-method factory; a Microsoft paper reports 3x over agentic coding on measurable tasks.
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Stripe moved factory orchestration out of the LLM and into code
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Microsoft reports 3x over agentic coding, on tasks that have a measurable objective
The paper starts from an Amdahl's-law claim: a "10×" gain in coding productivity yields "only modest latency or throughput gains" across the whole software lifecycle. The authors describe a factory that spans targeting, coding, reviewing…