Block's engineering team writes about AI-assisted development, MCP tool design, Gradle builds, the Buzz agent app, and Coldcard firmware.
HN commenters link it for the Buzz write-up and the layered tool pattern for MCP, which one commenter said they found useful.
Blog posts:
https://block.xyz/inside/introducing-buzz-where-humans-and-agents-work-together (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995706)
https://engineering.block.xyz/blog/buzz (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995199)
I discovered the "Layered Tool Pattern" a few days ago which exposes three tools to discover and execute an arbitrary number of service endpoints. https://engineering.block.xyz/blog/build-mcp-tools-like-ogres-with-layers
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There's a brief write-up on Buzz here https://engineering.block.xyz/blog/buzz