Topics / Running AI in an organization
Training programs, new skills and changing roles.
7 passages from 5 organizations; 7 checked against the source. The page states no conclusion: these are the organizations' own words.
We're helping our associates build the skills they'll need to thrive in an AI-Powered workplace through things like embracing OpenAI Certifications and rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise Licenses.
WalmartPublished by the organization itself (earnings call), no named author
Earnings call: earnings call transcript via MarketBeat (third-party transcript site), earnings call transcript via MarketBeat (third-party transcript site), November 20, 2025.
What I've seen is that when we started introducing … and loops and eventually more autonomous work within the whole organization, a new technical path opened. All of a sudden, we were helping the agent with tooling, building tooling for the agent and that kind of reignited some of the developers … kind of felt that it wasn't for them. Not all of a sudden, they were like, yes, we can do this, we have that knowledge, we're like somehow helping this even with a kind of programmatic way.
Patrick DeboisProduct DevRel Lead · Practitioner, 
Tessl
Context. Debois, who says earlier in the talk that his observations include Tessl, is describing developers' reaction to prompting and spec-writing and then to building harnesses; the speaker does not say which team 'we' is.
Talk: Coding Agents Don't Scale Themselves. Neither Do Your Teams. The Rise of Agent Enablement, AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 (YouTube), July 2, 2026, at 03:53.
When hiring for our service team, we were able to rescope the skillset to deemphasize the need for deep workflow expertise.
Austin LaceyDirector, Chatbots, AI & Automation · Leader, 
Zendesk
Post: Zendesk blog (the company's own, signed by a Zendesk director), Zendesk blog (the company's own, signed by a Zendesk director), July 23, 2025.
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.
Today, 99% of our engineers use AI tools. More than 70% of pull requests are attributed to local or cloud agents. And our engineers have built 2,500+ agent skills across the software development lifecycle.
Praveen Neppalli NagaChief Technology Officer · Executive, Uber
Social post: X post on Praveen Neppalli's own account (Uber's CTO), X post on Praveen Neppalli's own account (Uber's CTO), July 7, 2026.
I think what I hear from most companies is they say, first step is we give them an exercise and we want them to really go nuts on the … to solve this. … Now, after they pass this, you do a walkthrough and you actually say, please explain me what happened. Why is this a good idea?
Patrick DeboisProduct DevRel Lead · Practitioner, Tessl
Context. Debois relays what he hears from companies about interviewing engineers in the age of coding agents; it is his account of other companies' practice, not Tessl's.
Talk: Coding Agents Don't Scale Themselves. Neither Do Your Teams. The Rise of Agent Enablement, AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 (YouTube), July 2, 2026, at 16:09.
So periodically at night or in off hours, we give River, “Here’s all the conversations you’ve had today. What went well? What did you struggle with?
Tobi LütkeCo-founder and Chief Executive Officer · Executive, 
Shopify
Interview: The Knowledge Project (podcast by Shane Parrish of Farnam Street, independent), transcript on fs.blog, The Knowledge Project (podcast by Shane Parrish of Farnam Street, independent), transcript on fs.blog, September 10, 2026. Reported by Shane Parrish.