“year over year, the number of CI jobs also doubled or more than doubled. So we had to like also like beef up whole bunch of foundations in this space”
Uday Kiran Medisetty, Distinguished Engineer. Runs the engineering-productivity work Medisetty reports on and gave the AI Engineer World's Fair talk; an insider with an interest in presenting the program well.
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Whisper transcript matches word for word: 'year over year, the number of CI jobs also doubled or more than doubled. So we had to like also like beef up whole bunch of foundations in this space'.
How to cite this passage
Uday Kiran Medisetty (Uber), “Uber's AI infra, from the inside”, The Pragmatic Engineer (YouTube), 2026-10-14, at 58:38. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDUYSMJmi8A Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/uber-ci-jobs-doubled-or-more-year-over-year-influx-of-prs-2026
Context. Medisetty is describing Uber's background coding agent, Minion. The word cut after 'production' is pull requests (PRs), which both transcriptions rendered as 'peers'; he says 'PRs' in the next sentence.
Context. 'This' is Uber's internal model gateway, which he has just been describing (one OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic-compatible API in front of models from all vendors, with an AI Guard safety layer).
Context. Answering the host's question how Uber thinks about engineering productivity now that agents write more code. He gives no figures for the shift.
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