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.
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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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-job-engineering-build-right-context-agents-2026
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.
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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