2024
Angie Jones says that at Block she was tasked with teaching the entire company how to use AI agents.
“One of my tasks was to, uh, basically teach the entire company, twelve zero people, how to use AI agents.”
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2025
Jones says developer attitudes toward AI coding tools shifted around November 2025, when the models improved markedly.
“But it was like this point in about November of 2025.”
Undated
Angie Jones worked with Jack Dorsey at Twitter, and he then brought her to Block.
“So I worked with Jack at at Twitter, and then he brought me over to Block when they when they started”
Undated
Jones used the 1-9-90 rule, under which about 1% of a community are creators, 9% tinkerers and 90% consumers, to organize AI adoption.
“it's called the the one, nine, ninety rule, and this rule essentially says that in any community, there's gonna be one of that community that are creators.”
Undated
Jones assembled a group of about 50 engineers from across Block to test AI techniques and embed them in their repositories.
“And so they were there with me, we drank it, it was 50 of them, um, drank it from the fire hose.”
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