Will Maier
Leads growth engineering at Stripe with experience across product surfaces and a background outside of computer science; focused on high-leverage engineering, tooling, and organizational adoption of AI.
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Mar 11, 2026 • 47min
I Haven't Opened an IDE Since November — Will Maier
Will Maier, who leads growth engineering at Stripe with a non-CS background, reflects on a late-November AI inflection and why he stopped opening an IDE. He recounts holiday hacking—building a Lua distribution from his phone—and explains skills-as-markdown, token-measurement surprises, and the psychology and organizational dynamics shaping AI adoption in large engineering teams.
