Stripe’s two-part blog series about Minions created quite a stir earlier this year (see 1 and 2).
Now, a lot of teams are racing to adopt their own version of Minions-style async cloud agents. Nobody wants to feel left behind in “The Great AI Race” after all.
TODO: Options like Cursor, Warp’s Oz, Factory …
Most teams will fail at this, because their codebase isn’t ready. TODO: funny minions photo.
You can’t just unleash minions
You can’t drop an async cloud agent into your codebase, assign it tasks and expect it to succeed.