Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform

https://stripe.dev/blog/meet-stripes-knowledge-ai-platform

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anonzzzies•1h ago

TIL people still fall for eh I mean use Langchain. Sorry, low value comment; I don’t know how to do that differently; it is such bad garbage since day one and strangely it did not improve. Sorry anyway for the comment, at least it was not LLM generated?

realsarm•58m ago

Yes, I also thought it's crap the moment I saw they need langchain to develop a harness.

weego•19m ago

The fact that Stripe are touting a production product that (at face value) benefits their business seems to suggest that maybe crap is subjective and as ever, being overly opinionated in an emerging space might actually be a blocking mindset rather than a positive one.

owebmaster•14m ago

It might also suggest they went with the first LLM recommendation, like Anthropic choosing React for Claude Code.

bogdanoff_2•58m ago

To make your comment more high value, could you explain why you think langchain is bad?

ramraj07•37m ago

It (and most other systems) abstract the wrong concepts when you want to create an agent. They promote what was likely never a great strategy but even parsimoniously what are strategies that were good ideas months or a year back.

For example how langchain or whatever else handles subagents and deep research is laughable even today.

So whats the recommendation? Just use pydantic and code everything up yourself. Maybe strands I dont know.

infecto•57m ago

Instead of spending half the comment reflecting on your post why not point out what you don’t like about it or some better alternatives?

mawadev•57m ago

I have a hard time keeping up with the space. Is langchain old news? Is there a page that kind of shows what the status quo for tooling is?

infecto•55m ago

+1 would love to know as well. I have generally found the open source space to be lacking in this area and hoping it catches up!

simlevesque•47m ago

There's like 1000 langchain alternatives and none are good, they're all vibe-coded unstable projects.

I use Apache Burr but it's not as good as LangChain. I just don't want to use software whose website has a pricing page if it's not a SAAS.

hmokiguess•26m ago

Totally, I find LangChain is the Vercel of ML

atonse•57m ago

Ahhh I built an internal set of agents to run our company (finances, all info in the karpathy-style LLMWiki and a database of clients, contracts, billing, time tracking, all managed by MCPs, etc) and it's also called Kai (company name is Kaizen)

Happy to be in such good company!

infecto•56m ago

All hand written or did you have any underlying libraries that you used?

quijoteuniv•54m ago

But no darkmode support? … :D

hek2sch•53m ago

I read a buzz word "Knowledge AI Platform" but I did not see any specific feature helpful for knowledge management like verification or transparency. It is more like any generic Agent builder. Maybe it meant to justify building something internally.

ofjcihen•12m ago

None of these have been especially impressive.

I think that’s because none of them go past “I’ve set up agents to be orchestrated this way” and that’s about as impressive as “look at my cloudformation template”.

adithyassekhar•50m ago

This site could use a bit more line height, more paragraphs, or less text overall.

Bluestein•48m ago

Somebody probably mentioned this already or maybe its just me but: The "endless scroll" this page does is neat, to say the least.-

wiether•43m ago

I just hear Steve Ballmer yelling

Bluestein•42m ago

[Bad mental image ... can't unsee ...] :)

dominotw•45m ago

oh not these guys again. These are just so idiotic.

Spotify built some nonsense like this too and made ridiculous claims that it saves 90 percent of tokens. I guess anything goes these days.

ianpurton•36m ago

They don't really say why they built their own rather than using one of the open source solutions like https://github.com/bionic-gpt/bionic-gpt

NichoPaolucci•32m ago

Size and scale, I would think. An out of the box solution probably doesn't quite have the same capabilities as something they can (and now have to) manage in it's entirety.

Stripe probably WANTS to be opinionated about how their company works with the tools.

sceptic123•24m ago

In the first paragraph:

> No existing tool could handle the data security requirements and specific workflows Stripe needed

wenbin•36m ago

so is it like CloudflareOS ? https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os

seems every company that has spare engineering resource all builds such thing internally

olliebrkr•35m ago

Dammit, I just named my newborn son Kai.

lukebuehler•35m ago

Very cool demonstration of managed agents built for the needs of their own business.

I think this is where a lot of companies are going to go: on-prem platforms that give various teams access to agents that are as powerful as coding agents, but much more managed and governed.

I'm betting on this with my open source project, Lightspeed: https://github.com/smartcomputer-ai/lightspeed

hmokiguess•27m ago

Your project seems way better than the stuff they built, nice work.

neilellis•23m ago

I like it, very smart for agents at scale.

olliebrkr•35m ago

Dang it, I just named my newborn son Kai. At least I didn’t go with Alexa..

ckrapu•25m ago

The article reads like slop, to be honest.

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Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock

Strands Harness

Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform

GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car

Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]

Jev in 25 Lines of Python

I don't want the details

Z80 REPL (2018)

GPT-6 Sol and Luna

Tokens Too Cheap to Meter

Claude Opus 5.5

Web-based IBM 1620 emulator and IPL-V from 1963

QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Sales Engineer

The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)

The Price of Intelligence Is Falling Rapidly

Jev in practice: typed decisions, scoped authority

Transit rewards

OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005

Jev Can't Be Calibrated

Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived

Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update

What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals

How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?

ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system

'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees

SAML: A fractal of bad design

Data-only attacks are easier than you think (2024)

WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE

Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)

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