Context engineering, ability to multitask, and ability to review and verify the outputs: these skills have become much more important now because you’re able to parallelize a lot more than before.
Uday Kiran MedisettyDistinguished Engineer · Practitioner, 
Uber
Interview: Uber's AI infra, from the inside, The Pragmatic Engineer, October 14, 2026, at Takeaway 10. Reported by Gergely Orosz.
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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Found in takeaway 10 as the last sentence of a longer quotation in quote marks that the newsletter introduces with 'As Uday reflects on how the job has changed'. It is Uday's own words, quoted by the interviewer. Curly apostrophes only.
Uday Kiran Medisetty (Uber), “Uber's AI infra, from the inside”, The Pragmatic Engineer, 2026-10-14, at Takeaway 10. https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ubers-ai-infra-from-the-inside Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/uber-context-engineering-multitask-review-verify-2026
The job of engineering is, in some sense: ‘how do you build the right context for the agents to produce reliable output?’ You need to get really good at context engineering.
Uday Kiran MedisettyDistinguished Engineer · Practitioner, Uber
Interview: Uber's AI infra, from the inside, The Pragmatic Engineer, October 14, 2026, at Takeaway 10. Reported by Gergely Orosz.
All the things that we built to make life easier for engineers: it makes it easier for our agents as well!
Uday Kiran MedisettyDistinguished Engineer · Practitioner, Uber
Interview: Uber's AI infra, from the inside, The Pragmatic Engineer, October 14, 2026, at Takeaway 11. Reported by Gergely Orosz.
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