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    "id": "uber-back-2024-we-were-seeing-engineers-2026",
    "text": "Back in 2024, we were seeing that engineers would get their first review within three hours. Now, in 2026, that has grown to nine hours, in addition to all of the volume changes. So in short, code review is now the bottleneck that we are running into.",
    "speaker": "Will Bond",
    "role": "Staff Engineer, AI Foundations team, Development Platform organization",
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      "title": "Building uReview, Uber's Multi-Agent Code Review Engine (talk, AI Engineer World's Fair 2026)",
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      "date": "2026-08-28",
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      "locator": "01:05",
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    "context": "Will Bond is describing a metric Uber tracks, the time to a first review of a pull request.",
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    "Organizations flagged aiVendor sell AI tooling and have a reason to publish flattering numbers.",
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