Jack Dorsey's Block launches AI builderbot after 4,000 employee layoff
Block, the company run by Jack Dorsey, just launched BuilderBot, an AI tool built to manage and optimize massive amounts of code across its platforms.
This move follows Block's recent layoff of 4,000 employees as it leans further into AI-powered operations.
BuilderBot runs over 200,000 operations daily
Builderbot is already streamlining things by handling more than 200,000 operations a day and merging about 1,500 pull requests each week, making up nearly 15% of all production code changes.
It works seamlessly with tools like Jira and Slack so engineers can assign and track tasks in real time.
Importantly, Builderbot only touches source code and settings, not customer or payment data.
Dorsey called this "the beginning of the beginning" for AI at Block, hinting at even bigger plans ahead.