Genentech

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5 passages, 1 people quoted. Topics: Does AI make developers more productive?, How do organizations measure AI's impact?, What does AI do across the whole company?, How is AI used for testing?, How do coding agents open and merge changes?, Can AI fix bugs and handle incidents?, Where do agents run?.

we complete about 189 tickets for this sprint, which is about four times as much or two to three times more than what we usually accomplish

Xiucheng QuekSoftware engineer · Practitioner

Talk: Background Agents for Genomics and Cloud Ops, YouTube video of a talk or interview (Xiucheng Quek, software engineer (Genentech)), May 7, 2026.

4x output change, this sprint vs usual

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Passage page

if you look at the 180 tickets the bot completed about 122 tickets

Xiucheng QuekSoftware engineer · Practitioner

Talk: Background Agents for Genomics and Cloud Ops, YouTube video of a talk or interview (Xiucheng Quek, software engineer (Genentech)), May 7, 2026.

122 function agent volume, one sprint (stated as "the 180 tickets"). No person in the loop

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Passage page

we are allowing the bot to merge that directly into our main branch because we have integration tests, unit tests, etc., canary tests.

Xiucheng QuekSoftware engineer · Practitioner

Talk: Background Agents for Genomics and Cloud Ops, YouTube video of a talk or interview (speaker in notes), May 7, 2026.

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Passage page

We are now generating operation logs uh uh or daily summary of the platform

Xiucheng QuekSoftware engineer · Practitioner

Talk: Background Agents for Genomics and Cloud Ops, YouTube video of a talk or interview (speaker in notes), May 7, 2026.

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Passage page

simply asking Ona or the bot on my research failed, can you my analysis failed, can you tell me why? And it will just go through the entire troubleshooting process.

Xiucheng QuekSoftware engineer · Practitioner

Talk: Background Agents for Genomics and Cloud Ops, YouTube video of a talk or interview (speaker in notes), May 7, 2026.

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Passage page

Size and results

From the organization's filings and statements, for comparing it with its own past. Not compared with other organizations. Each figure links to its source; expand a row for the exact words.

Measure	Period	Value	Source
Engineers	team, as of 2026-05	4 people	Background Agents for Genomics and Cloud Ops (grade B) Exact words “We are a small team of four engineers” Counts his platform team only, not Genentech.