Stripe built a company brain 'Kai' with 1.5 engineers in 2 weeks, on LangChain
Hacubu · x · 2026-09-08
On the How I AI podcast, Stripe's Sharadh explains how just 1.5 engineers built the company's internal AI brain 'Kai' in two weeks on top of LangChain. Key elements:
- Projects as governance for scoping agents
- Skill routing plus telemetry for observability
- A skills platform designed to serve 10,000 teammates
- Minion coding agents and a custom prototyping rig
The episode also debates 'gentle parenting' your AI while the company runs evals.
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