Training Data Block CTO Dhanji Prasanna: Building the AI-First Enterprise with Goose, their Open Source Agent
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Sep 30, 2025 
Dhanji Prasanna, CTO of Block, has spearheaded the company's AI transformation, enabling significant productivity gains. He discusses the development of Goose, an open-source AI agent that automates workflows and allows teams to create custom applications effortlessly. Dhanji highlights how Block restructured its teams to foster AI innovation and advocates for the potential of swarm intelligence over large models. He also touches on the balance between generative AI and traditional methods, along with the importance of open-source for community growth.
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Roll Out Autonomy Gradually
- Use layered safety: start human-in-loop, then move to autonomy gradually.
- Enforce user access controls so Goose inherits individual permissions and limits blast radius.
Non-Engineers Building Real Tools With Goose
- Non-technical employees used Goose to build dashboards and a travel map with an optimized route.
- Goose enabled a merchant to plot Paris sites and compute a travelling-salesman walk on holiday.
Goose Watching A Developer End-to-End
- One engineer has Goose monitor his work and proactively open PRs and reschedule meetings.
- Goose took actions from Slack and Meet context and authored feature PRs autonomously.