Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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With Ty Smith and Anshu Chada, Uber Dev Platform. At The Pragmatic Summit: pragmaticsummit.com

Update on 11 March: the Uber team shared updated numbers as of March 2026:

- 84% of devs at Uber are agentic coding users (either using CLI-based agents or making more agentic requests than tab-completion in their IDE)

- 65-72% of code is AI-generated inside IDE-based tools. This number is, naturally, 100% for AI command line tools like Claude Code.

- Claude Code usage nearly doubled in 3 months — from 32% in Dec to 63% in Feb, while IDE-based tools (Cursor, IntelliJ) have plateaued.

See more context in this article: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-uber-uses-ai-for-development

Watch the session with Q&A also included: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmatic-summit-recordings

0:00 Intro
6:11 Toil automation
8:02 Uber’s agentic platform architecture overview
11:16 The cross-functional tiger team
17:46 Async multi-agent workflow model
20:32 Minion background agent platform
26:55 Agent logs, observability, and debugging workflows
31:20 AI code review pipeline and quality grading
36:50 Testing
40:38 Migrations
43:55 Non-technical challenges