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After starting the tokenmaxxing panic, Uber's CTO is back with a very different AI story
Uber's new AI strategy sends top engineers into every department to rethink workflows and uncover productivity gains.
TL;DR
- Uber's CTO is deploying top AI engineers into departments like finance, legal, and HR to study and redesign workflows.
- These two-week "Agentic Pods" shadow employees to understand their work before building AI tools.
- The focus is on redesigning entire workflows around AI, not just speeding up single tasks.
- This strategy has led to significant time savings, e.g., a financial report process reduced from two days to 10 minutes.
- The approach is likened to Silicon Valley's "forward-deployed engineer" but used internally for productivity gains.