There is plenty of discussion about whether AI makes developers faster. I’m more interested in a practical question: how can we use AI agents to build software that a team can responsibly ship?

I recently worked on a Stripe Direct Charges integration for a client’s WordPress/Dokan marketplace. I used Claude Code with workflows from Matt Pocock’s skills collection , documenting the decisions, implementation, reviews, and bugs along the way.

The agent handled much of the implementation and test writing, but I stayed involved in clarifying requirements, checking assumptions, reviewing changes, and verifying behaviour. For payment software, generating code is only one part of the job.

The feature: money, timing, and connected accounts

The client needed Stripe Direct Charges for a Dokan marketplace. The customer’s payment would be charged on the vendor’s connected Stripe account, with the vendor acting as merchant of record.…