Building an Autonomous Engineering Org - Angie Jones, Agentic AI Foundation
Block transformed its 3,500-person engineering org toward autonomous, agent-driven workflows despite AI adoption not yet boosting shipping speed.
“But our CEO was convinced that engineering wasn't using AI at all.”
Angie Jones describes Block's effort to turn its 3,500-person engineering org agentic, noting that while ~90% of engineers adopted tools like Goose and Claude Code, features weren't shipping faster, exposing a gap between AI adoption and real impact. It matters because it offers a candid, metrics-backed account of moving beyond experimentation to integrating agents as core members of the engineering workflow—a challenge most tech companies now face.