Staff engineer on AI Foundations; co-author of the uReview post and credited in the Efficient Software Factory post acknowledgements.
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“Back in 2024, we were seeing that engineers would get their first review within three hours. Now, in 2026, that has grown to nine hours, in addition to all of the volume changes. So in short, code review is now the bottleneck that we are running into.”
Will BondStaff Engineer, AI Foundations team, Development Platform organization · Practitioner, 
Uber
Context. Will Bond is describing a metric Uber tracks, the time to a first review of a pull request.
Talk: Building uReview, Uber's Multi-Agent Code Review Engine (talk, AI Engineer World's Fair 2026), AI Engineer (YouTube), August 28, 2026, at 01:05.
Not yet checked [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Uber: $52 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page
“Currently, we still have humans approving the code, but we see a short path in the near future to a percentage of our code landing automatically, having automatic approvals, right?”
Will BondStaff Engineer, AI Foundations team, Development Platform organization · Practitioner, Uber
Context. Will Bond is describing where Uber expects code review to go as it moves to an agentic software development life cycle.
Talk: Building uReview, Uber's Multi-Agent Code Review Engine (talk, AI Engineer World's Fair 2026), AI Engineer (YouTube), August 28, 2026, at 11:39.
Not yet checked [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Uber: $52 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page
“But rather than killing the outer loop, I think that we believe and the industry has just started to really kind of coalesce on this idea that … really expanding the outer loop. Rather than removing humans from the code review process, we are moving their responsibilities up a layer.”
Will BondStaff Engineer, AI Foundations team, Development Platform organization · Practitioner, Uber
Context. Will Bond is closing the talk on what happens to human reviewers as agents write and review more of the code.
Talk: Building uReview, Uber's Multi-Agent Code Review Engine (talk, AI Engineer World's Fair 2026), AI Engineer (YouTube), August 28, 2026, at 13:43.
Not yet checked [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Uber: $52 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page
“Uber spent the time to invest in building an in-house solution due to some of the constraints that we have. One of those is we currently use [Phabricator] and have for a long time and are in the process of migrating to GitHub. Most of the solutions do not provide support for [Phabricator].”
Will BondStaff Engineer, AI Foundations team, Development Platform organization · Practitioner, Uber
Talk: Building uReview, Uber's Multi-Agent Code Review Engine (talk, AI Engineer World's Fair 2026), AI Engineer (YouTube), August 28, 2026, at 01:22.
Not yet checked [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Uber: $52 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page