Building an AI Native Engineering Org
summary
Block builds an internal coding agent Goose and pilots it with 50 handpicked AI champions to convert 3,500 engineers from IDE helpers to orchestrators of parallel agents. Repos gain context and rules, cloud workstations isolate agent workloads, and an in‑house orchestrator plus a company world model over 25,000 repositories coordinates multi‑agent plans. Results: 90% of engineers use AI tools, AI‑authored code rises to 69%, PR automation grows 21x, and reported developer time savings hit 37%.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Speaker Introduction
- 1:00Block's Agentic Coding Journey
- 2:47Three Phases of AI Enablement
- 5:04Engineer AI Maturity Model
- 8:07AI Champions Program
- 10:07Making Repos AI-Ready
- 15:07Delegating Work via Slack and Tickets
- 22:31The Human Cost of Success
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