On the Square side, we took a list of features sellers had been waiting on for months and our engineers shipped them in days. Builderbot handled the scaffolding and the repetitive work, and our engineers made the decisions that shaped the product.
Brad AxenHead of AI Capabilities · Leader, 
Block
Post: Block rolls out BuilderBot, a new suite of AI-native tools that changes the way we ship, Block (own site), June 17, 2026, at What it means for how we build.
Brad Axen, Head of AI Capabilities. Quoted by Block about its Builderbot tool, which his title places in his area; an insider speaking for Block in the company's own post.
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Brad Axen (Block), “Block rolls out BuilderBot, a new suite of AI-native tools that changes the way we ship”, Block (own site), 2026-06-17, at What it means for how we build. https://block.xyz/inside/block-rolls-out-builderbot-a-new-suite-of-ai-native-tools-that-changes-the-way-we-ship Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/block-square-features-sellers-waiting-months-shipped-days-2026
Builderbot executes over 200,000 operations per day and merges approximately 1,500 pull requests per week, about 15% of all production code changes across Block.
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Post: Block rolls out BuilderBot, a new suite of AI-native tools that changes the way we ship, Block (own site), June 17, 2026.
It also operates on source code and system configuration only; it does not access or process customer data, payment information, or personally identifiable information.
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Post: Block rolls out BuilderBot, a new suite of AI-native tools that changes the way we ship, Block (own site), June 17, 2026, at How it works.
Builderbot is an orchestration layer that coordinates multiple AI agents across our entire codebase. It works inside Slack: anyone can tag @builderbot with a short description of what they need, and it gets to work right there in the thread, whether it’s a bug fix, a migration across services, or a new feature.
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Post: Block rolls out BuilderBot, a new suite of AI-native tools that changes the way we ship, Block (own site), June 17, 2026, at How it works.
It picks up tickets directly from Linear and Jira, creates the branch, writes the code, opens the pull request, watches CI, and iterates based on feedback.
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Post: Block rolls out BuilderBot, a new suite of AI-native tools that changes the way we ship, Block (own site), June 17, 2026.
Today, 100% of Block's engineers regularly use AI in their work.
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Post: Block rolls out BuilderBot, a new suite of AI-native tools that changes the way we ship, Block (own site), June 17, 2026.
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