a growing share of sessions aren’t initiated by humans, but by automated managed agents handling code review, self-healing CI failures, completing E2E PRs with visual validation, triaging on-call alerts, debugging incoming bugs, and handling a variety of code maintenance tasks with human reviews/escalations.
Uday Kiran MedisettyDistinguished Engineer · Practitioner, 
Uber
Post: Running a Software Factory Efficiently at Uber Scale, Uber engineering blog, August 27, 2026.
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 verbatim in the post, with its curly apostrophe in 'aren't' normalized: 'a growing share of sessions aren't initiated by humans, but by automated managed agents handling code review... with human reviews/escalations.' Written by Uday Kiran Medisetty per the byline.
Uday Kiran Medisetty (Uber), “Running a Software Factory Efficiently at Uber Scale”, Uber engineering blog, 2026-08-27. https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/efficient-software-factory/ Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/uber-growing-share-sessions-arent-initiated-humans-automated-2026
Engineers have built over 3,600 agent skills across the software development life cycle, and executed more than 30K agent skill executions per day.
Uday Kiran MedisettyDistinguished Engineer · Practitioner, Uber
Post: Running a Software Factory Efficiently at Uber Scale, Uber engineering blog, August 27, 2026.
from February to Aug 2026, weekly active users across all agentic offerings across all our employees (engineers & non-engineers) grew 7x, and weekly agentic requests grew 9.4x.
Uday Kiran MedisettyDistinguished Engineer · Practitioner, Uber
Post: Running a Software Factory Efficiently at Uber Scale, Uber engineering blog, August 27, 2026.
More than 70% of pull requests are attributed to local or cloud agents.
Uday Kiran MedisettyDistinguished Engineer · Practitioner, Uber
Post: Running a Software Factory Efficiently at Uber Scale, Uber engineering blog, August 27, 2026.
This single entry point encompasses more than 1,000 MCP servers across internal and third-party SaaS MCP
Uday Kiran MedisettyDistinguished Engineer · Practitioner, Uber
Post: Running a Software Factory Efficiently at Uber Scale, Uber engineering blog, August 27, 2026.
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