Real Alpha has cut 8 moments of Uday Kiran Medisetty (VP & Distinguished Engineer, Uber) talking, from an interview on The Pragmatic Engineer published Oct 14, 2026.
What Uday Kiran Medisetty said
Uber reused cloud workspaces to give agents ready-to-build repos
“we had one devpod per monorepo so if i'm working primarily in java monorepo”
Uday Kiran Medisetty17:13 Uber generated MCP tools from service contracts
“we could use that registry to generate a default mcp spec for them”
Uday Kiran Medisetty31:09 Production replay lets agents validate fixes against real traffic
“essentially you can capture real production traffic with just one middleware because now we have standardized language frameworks across all the services”
Uday Kiran Medisetty1:07:36 Uber’s context graph grounds Cortana in engineering relationships
“The quality goes up, the cost goes down, the latency goes down.”
Uday Kiran Medisetty40:53 Minion handles about 15% of Uber’s production PRs
“around 15 percent of all of the production PRs go through go through minion right now”
Uday Kiran Medisetty50:51 Uber still requires human review on every PR
“we want to err always on the safer side because the cost of an incident for Uber is like really high.”
Uday Kiran Medisetty59:26 Wisdom makes employee-reported bugs easier to reproduce
“we know that the set of screens the user has gone through because we have that in the logs”
Uday Kiran Medisetty1:18:52 Uber is shifting from diff counts to feature velocity
“we are internally talking about not necessarily just diff velocity but feature velocity”
Uday Kiran Medisetty1:24:06
The episode
The Pragmatic EngineerUber’s AI infra, from the inside
Uday Kiran Medisetty · Distinguished Engineer, Uber
16:03of 1:34:18 · Oct 14
