Block broadens goose's loop with Builderbot for AI agents

Block, the company behind Square, Cash App, Afterpay, Tidal and various bitcoin projects, rolled out a new layer of AI agent orchestration internally this month called Builderbot. The new tool widens the agentic loop beyond a single codebase and application – the kind of thing its open source goose agent framework tends to handle -- to encompass more comprehensive workflows that include incident response. Block's head of AI capabilities offers his view on Builderbot's implications for AgenticOps at Block and what parts of it might become available to the open source community as it matures.

Featuring: Brad Axen, head of AI capabilities at Block

In today’s episode, we’ll cover…

• Builderbot vs goose
• The build vs buy decision that led Block to create Builderbot
• How SREs at Block already use Builderbot for incident management
• Axen's outlook on enterprise agentic AI

And more!

References:

• Datadog shops: AI incident management needs platform engineers
• Cisco Cloud Control unites AgenticOps for IT infrastructure
• SaaSpocalypse? Maybe not, but SaaS applications are changing
• How to use AI agents for infrastructure management

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