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Can people outside engineering ship code with agents?

Product managers, designers, executives and other staff who change production code through agents, and the checks around it.

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So again, all of these are examples of how our technology team is using it, but even better than that, we've observed a lower barrier for non-specialists in the company to contribute to our systems. … Just call agent chip, get a draft that works that is already tested in staging and then and only then involve an engineer to make sure we get the changes reviewed and deployed properly. So this doesn't change the rigor to which we develop software at Monzo, but this does allow a number of non-specialists to also start contributing more closely to the team.

Felippe Felisola CasoMonzo (conference affiliation, 2026) · Practitioner, Monzo

Context. Felisola Caso is describing how people outside engineering use Monzo's in-house agent, Agent Chip, in Slack.

Talk: A Bank Built Its Own Coding Agent. It Took Off (talk, AI Engineer), AI Engineer (conference organizer) YouTube channel, October 20, 2026, at 12:07.

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Monzo: £1.7 billion revenue, FY2026 (year to 2026-03-31) Passage page

Inspect has a million sessions, 75% of our PRs is actually built by Inspect, and 1,000 of those PRs over the last month was submitted by a non-engineer.

Geoff CharlesChief Product Officer (CPO) · Executive, Ramp

Talk: What product looks like when coding is solved | Geoff Charles (Ramp CPO), Lenny's Podcast (YouTube channel); Geoff Charles's talk at the Lenny and Friends Summit, recorded 2026-09-10, September 25, 2026, at 08:41.

  • 75% agent pr share, share of Ramp's pull requests, as of 2026-09. Level not stated

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Ramp: $1.5 billion revenue, annualized revenue (ARR), by early June 2026 Passage page

Now with this, we had successfully reached stage five where engineers are delegating complete tasks to agents. … able to produce shippable results without human hand holding. In fact, this wasn't even limited to engineers anymore. Anyone at the company could … or implement a new feature. They didn't even need GitHub.

Angie JonesLed AI enablement and the agent engineering org at Block, as she describes in the talk; now VP of Developer Experience, Agentic AI Foundation · Leader, Block

Context. Jones is describing Block's top stage of agent use and who could use it.

Talk: Building an Autonomous Engineering Org, AI Engineer (YouTube), June 28, 2026, at 16:12.

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Block: $24.2 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page

600+ users including engineers, PMs, and designers, with 335 active and 197 power users. 5,068 merged PRs across 461 repositories and 10 orgs. 3.5x more merged PRs per engineer for Mux users compared to baseline: 39.6 vs 11.4.

CoinbasePublished by the organization itself (post), no named author

Post: Coding Had a Concurrency Problem: How Mux Helped Solve It, Coinbase engineering blog (byline: Alessandro Rodi, Adam Wolf), May 11, 2026, at The Evidence: Mux.

  • 600 people mux users, by April 2026, in one month
  • 5,068 prs mux merged prs, by April 2026, in one month. Level not stated
  • 39.6 prs merged prs per engineer mux users, by April 2026. Level not stated

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Coinbase: $7.2 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page

Designers work, I would say like 50/50 in Figma and code at this point … of them do code. All of them … do push to production.

Eric ZakariassonEngineer, Developer Experience and Product, Cursor · Practitioner, Cursor (Anysphere)

Context. Zakariasson is answering an audience question about how product managers, designers and engineers work together at Cursor.

Talk: Building your own software factory, AI Engineer (YouTube), April 28, 2026, at 1:18:40.

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Cursor (Anysphere): $4 billion revenue, annualised, early June 2026 Sells AI tools Passage page

I ran a demo session with some of my VPs, and in 24 minutes, I had four VPs land code for the first time in years. It was a pretty amazing experience. They were pretty satisfied by it, too. But our adoption for this technology has been relatively slow. It's been slower than I've expected, and part of it is because we're trying to have developers do something that they're so not used to. They're used to looking at code and generating from scratch, operating in their IDE, and we're telling them to take a risk by operating in a very different way.

Anshu ChadhaDirector of Engineering, Dev Platform, Uber · Leader, Uber

Context. Chadha is describing a demo of Uber's agentic tooling to VPs and why developer adoption has been slower than he expected.

Talk: Uber: Leading engineering through an agentic shift - The Pragmatic Summit, The Pragmatic Engineer (YouTube), March 10, 2026, at 32:45.

  • 4 people vps landing code, in a 24-minute demo session. Level not stated

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Uber: $52 billion revenue, FY2025 Passage page

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