Technology Lead, Block, Inc.
Search every verified Dhanji Prasanna interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. At Block's 2025 Investor Day, Prasanna introduced "Moneybot," an AI-powered assistant designed to help customers manage their finances by analyzing spending patterns and suggesting actions. He stated that Block is moving dollars on the Bitcoin network into dollars on the other side, describing this as a "complete paradigm shift." Prasanna also noted that the company is working with the Treasury Department and the Trump administration on integrating Cash App taxes and investing to facilitate saving for children's futures. Prasanna has discussed the impact of AI at Block, stating that the company's internal open-source agent, Goose, saves employees 8 to 10 hours per week. He said that the most surprising impact of AI tools has been on non-technical people using them to build things, and that Block's shift to a functional organizational structure boosted productivity more than AI tools alone. Prasanna expressed a preference for all AI models to be open source and open weights, and predicted that 2026 may bring a "trough of disillusionment" for AI before it surprises to the upside by 2030. He also said that Goose is used to build itself, with the goal of it becoming completely autonomous.
Dhanji R. Prasanna says AI hasn't yet reduced the number of people needed to build large-scale apps.
Dhanji R. Prasanna is the chief technology officer at Block (formerly Square), where he's managed more than 4000 engineers ...
As CTO of Block, Dhanji Prasanna has overseen a dramatic enterprise AI transformation, with engineers saving 8-10 hours a ...
Google I/O 2010 - Waving across the web Wave 101 Dhanji Prasanna, Douwe Osinga This talk focuses on using the Google Wave APIs outside of the Google Wave product. We'll talk about how to take advantage of embedded waves to allow for commenting and discussions on your website, how to integrate your website with WaveThis using gadgets and robots for continued interactivity and how to use the wave data APIs to get access to wave content from your website. For all I/O 2010 sessions, please go to http://code.google.com/events/io/2010...
Google I/O 2009 - Big Modular Java with Guice Dhanji R. Prasanna, Jesse Wilson Learn how Google uses the fast, lightweight Guice framework to power some of the largest and most complex applications in the world. Supporting scores of developers, and steep testing and scaling requirements for the web, Guice proves that there is still ample room for a simple, type-safe and dynamic programming model in Java. This session will serve as a simple introduction to Guice, its ecosystem and how we use it at Google. For presentation slides and all I/O sessions, please go to: code.google.com/event…
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