At the time of the conversation, Angie Jones was VP of Engineering for AI Tools and Enablement at Block, the company behind Square and Cash App. On Chain of Thought she explained how her team deployed AI agents to all 12,000 Block employees in about eight weeks using Model Context Protocol and the open-source Goose agent, and the security guardrails that made it safe.
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How Block Deployed AI Agents to 12,000 Employees in 8 Weeks w/ MCP | Angie Jones
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I'm gonna I'm going to take it a step further and do a couple of MCP, because I think that's where MCP really shines, is when you connect multiple systems together to unlock workflows that, like maybe weren't possible before.
How Block Deployed AI Agents to 12,000 Employees in 8 Weeks w/ MCP | Angie Jones
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