“So it's been really useful, even in our support channels, I would see like someone reports a bug, the on call ask minion, hey, like, … what is the issue and then minion will come back with, oh, this is the root cause, oh, this looks simple enough, let's just fix it right there and then we would like fix it, like there's no, then loop of like adding it to backlog, doing in the next, next thing, like you're able to fix it right there.”
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.
How this was checked
Checked against the source by a first reader, then confirmed independently by a second reader who fetched the source without seeing the first reader's notes (Independent review agent (Claude Sonnet), blind second pass from passage text and citation only, no repository access, 2026-11-07).
Whisper transcript reads 'hey, like, can you see what is the issue and then minion will come back with'. The passage's ellipsis stands for the omitted 'can you see'. The rest matches word for word.
How to cite this passage
Uday Kiran Medisetty (Uber), “Uber's AI infra, from the inside”, The Pragmatic Engineer (YouTube), 2026-10-14, at 53:00. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDUYSMJmi8A Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/uber-on-call-asks-minion-root-cause-fix-it-right-there-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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