Uber's CTO embedded its top AI engineers in HR, finance, and legal, and found better ways to build
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Embedding top AI engineers directly into HR, finance, and legal to build “agentic pods” is a structural bet that domain intimacy beats centralized AI teams. If you’re serious about agents, stop treating back-office as a generic use case—assign senior builders into those functions for 90 days and ship one end-to-end workflow each.
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