Jack Dorsey's blockchain company Block has implemented the AI tool Builderbot to automate software development. The system already creates about 15% of all the firm's program code.
The tool is an orchestrator of AI agents. It is integrated into Slack: a developer tags the bot's account and describes a task. Builderbot independently looks for bugs, suggests fixes, or creates new features.
Unlike standard assistants, Builderbot has access to Block's entire codebase. This allows an engineer from the Cash App team to make changes to Square services they had not worked with before. The bot automatically takes tasks from Jira, creates branches in the repository, writes code, and opens a Pull Request.
According to the company, Builderbot performs more than 200,000 operations per day. Each week the system closes about 1,500 code merge requests.
"What used to take months now takes days. The bot takes on the routine and environment setup, allowing engineers to focus on solving complex problems," said the head of Block's AI capabilities department, Brad Axen.
Block emphasized that the tool works only with source code and system configurations. It has no access to client data or payment information.
Builderbot is built on goose — an open-source framework that Block handed over to the Agentic AI Foundation. During development the company also collaborated with Anthropic on creating the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
The company believes that the transition from writing code with the help of AI to "native" engineering processes based on neural networks will become the main trend in the IT industry.
Recall that in June TechCrunch journalists called artificial intelligence an excuse for layoffs.
Source: ForkLog
