{"slug": "uber-our-engineers-have-doubled-code-output", "title": "Uber: Our engineers have doubled code output", "summary": "Uber Technologies Inc. reported that its engineers have doubled coding output as AI adoption reaches nearly 100% among its development team, allowing the company to moderate new hiring. CFO Balaji Krishnamurthy said during an earnings call that the productivity gain has enabled Uber to slow headcount growth, though he cautioned it is early in the AI rollout. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi previously noted that AI tools have been used for years and predicted 10% of code is committed by agents.", "body_md": "[vibe coding](/tag/vibe-coding/)\n\nUber says its engineers are doubling their coding output as AI uptake reaches nearly 100% among its development team, allowing it to “moderate” new hiring.\n\nThe ride-sharing company highlighted the widespread adoption during an earnings call Wednesday, saying coding output for each of its 4,500-5,000 engineers had doubled as it pushes a cost-efficiency programme.\n\nCFO Balaji Krishnamurthy said: “There is a lot more nuance to this, and we are being quite smart internally on how we are measuring this and not getting ahead of our skis. At a minimum, it has allowed us to moderate the pace with which we are adding headcount there.”\n\nWhile Krishnamurthy said it was “early” in Uber’s AI rollout, during a Q1 earnings call in May, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company had been using AI tools “for years and years” and predicted 10% of its code was “committed” by agents.\n\n## Get the full story: Subscribe for free\n\nJoin peers managing over $100 billion in annual IT spend and subscribe to unlock full access to The Stack’s analysis and events.\n\n[Subscribe now](https://www.thestack.technology/membership/)\n\nAlready a member? [Sign in](https://www.thestack.technology/signin/)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/uber-our-engineers-have-doubled-code-output", "canonical_source": "https://www.thestack.technology/practically-all-of-ubers-engineers-are-on-the-ai-train/", "published_at": "2026-08-06 13:30:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-09 09:36:20.126075+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "generative-ai", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Uber Technologies Inc.", "Balaji Krishnamurthy", "Dara Khosrowshahi"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/uber-our-engineers-have-doubled-code-output", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/uber-our-engineers-have-doubled-code-output.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/uber-our-engineers-have-doubled-code-output.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/uber-our-engineers-have-doubled-code-output.jsonld"}}