What I Read This Week by Trevor Houghton

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Block's Internal Agent Ships 15% of Production Code

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Block's numbers on their internal agent system are the ones to quote in an argument. Engineers tag it in Slack, it researches, plans, and ships: 200,000 operations a day, 1,500 PRs merged a week, 15% of all production code. This is what agents coordinating across a real codebase looks like at scale, not in a demo.

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We built an internal AI system called Builderbot. It coordinates agents across our entire codebase. Engineers tag it in Slack, and it researches, plans, and ships. The story so far:

  • 200,000 operations per day.
  • 1,500 pull requests merged per week.
  • 15% of all production code
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