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Now with this, we had successfully reached stage five where engineers are delegating complete tasks to agents. … able to produce shippable results without human hand holding. In fact, this wasn't even limited to engineers anymore. Anyone at the company could … or implement a new feature. They didn't even need GitHub.

Angie JonesLed AI enablement and the agent engineering org at Block, as she describes in the talk; now VP of Developer Experience, Agentic AI Foundation · Leader, Block

Context. Jones is describing Block's top stage of agent use and who could use it.

Talk: Building an Autonomous Engineering Org, AI Engineer (YouTube), June 28, 2026, at 16:12.

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Block: $24.2 billion revenue, FY2025

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Angie Jones, Led AI enablement and the agent engineering org at Block (as she describes in the talk); now VP of Developer Experience, Agentic AI Foundation. Describes the program she ran at Block, so first-hand; the figures are her own reporting from a conference talk with no definitions or baselines.

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Both whisper and captions.md match from 16:12, with the elisions as marked.

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After a couple of months, about 90% of our engineers were now using tools like … regularly to generate code. So on paper, it looked like we were all in on AI. But our CEO was convinced that engineering wasn't using AI at all, like they couldn't be, right? … he was concerned because we weren't shipping any faster.

Angie JonesLed AI enablement and the agent engineering org at Block, as she describes in the talk; now VP of Developer Experience, Agentic AI Foundation · Leader, Block

Context. Jones is describing where Block's engineering organization stood before her agent engineering work began.

Talk: Building an Autonomous Engineering Org, AI Engineer (YouTube), June 28, 2026, at 0:45.

  • 90% tool usage share, after a couple of months, as the speaker states it

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Block: $24.2 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page

Engineers were also able to assign … tickets as well as GitHub issues to an agent and have the agent implement the work … So now the agents have become a part of the sprint. This blew everyone's minds. The first time we did this, the team ran out of work and had to pull in more tickets like twice, right? So of course, engineering managers, product teams, they love this flow.

Angie JonesLed AI enablement and the agent engineering org at Block, as she describes in the talk; now VP of Developer Experience, Agentic AI Foundation · Leader, Block

Context. Jones is describing what happened when Block engineers began assigning tickets to coding agents.

Talk: Building an Autonomous Engineering Org, AI Engineer (YouTube), June 28, 2026, at 11:40.

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Block: $24.2 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page

We absolutely had to get the bots to help us review PR's. … But now, with the repo readiness work that the champions had done, coupled with better models and tools, … we were getting much better results here. So we enabled … on all the repos, and we also created an auto fix loop where if … issues, another agent will automatically fix those issues and commit them to the PR. So now, at least people were no longer complaining about not wanting to review sloppy PR's from bots, right? By time they got to them, they were in pretty good shape.

Angie JonesLed AI enablement and the agent engineering org at Block, as she describes in the talk; now VP of Developer Experience, Agentic AI Foundation · Leader, Block

Context. Jones is describing how Block handled code review once engineers were running several agents at once.

Talk: Building an Autonomous Engineering Org, AI Engineer (YouTube), June 28, 2026, at 13:31.

Not yet checked [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Block: $24.2 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page

So now I felt comfortable claiming that we were truly delegating work to the agents. At this point, it had been three months since launching … champions program and we were seeing great results. AI authored code was up by 69% … savings increased 37% and automated PR's increased 21 times.

Angie JonesLed AI enablement and the agent engineering org at Block, as she describes in the talk; now VP of Developer Experience, Agentic AI Foundation · Leader, Block

Context. Jones is reporting results about three months after the AI champions program began at Block.

Talk: Building an Autonomous Engineering Org, AI Engineer (YouTube), June 28, 2026, at 12:27.

  • 69% ai authored code increase, first three months of the AI champions program. Level not stated
  • 37% time savings increase, first three months of the AI champions program. Level not stated
  • 21 times automated prs increase, first three months of the AI champions program. Level not stated

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Block: $24.2 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page

In the simplest of terms, I defined an … org as one where engineers leverage AI agents as their primary means of producing engineering outcomes. So that meant that our engineers needed to treat agents as core members of their engineering workflow. … using AI to help them write code here and there, but actually working with agents, decomposing problems, delegating work, reviewing and verifying what was done. And we wanted them directing the work as their default way of operating.

Angie JonesLed AI enablement and the agent engineering org at Block, as she describes in the talk; now VP of Developer Experience, Agentic AI Foundation · Leader, Block

Context. Jones is explaining how she defined an agent engineering organization after being asked to build one.

Talk: Building an Autonomous Engineering Org, AI Engineer (YouTube), June 28, 2026, at 2:29.

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Block: $24.2 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page

So we built a company world … based on the entirety of our 25,000 repo …, right? And this was a machine readable view of every single service and how they all connect. And this allowed orchestrators and the agents that they delegated to to pull context in as needed and understand the landscape as they implement. And this enabled multiple agents to explore different parts of the system in parallel.

Angie JonesLed AI enablement and the agent engineering org at Block, as she describes in the talk; now VP of Developer Experience, Agentic AI Foundation · Leader, Block

Context. Jones is describing the shared view of Block's code that its agent orchestrator draws on.

Talk: Building an Autonomous Engineering Org, AI Engineer (YouTube), June 28, 2026, at 15:23.

  • 25,000 repos code base size, as the speaker states it

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Block: $24.2 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page

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