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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\nEarlier this year, Uber\u2019s CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga triggered a \u201ctokenmaxxing panic\u201d after revealing the company nearly blew through its 2026 budget for Anthropic\u2019s Claude Code in just three months. Now, Naga is back with a new lesson. According to a report by Business Insider, Naga said that the biggest gains from AI don\u2019t come from speeding up single tasks, but from redesigning the complete workflows. Naga said that Uber has started deploying its best AI engineers into departments like finance, legal, marketing, HR and procurement. These two-week teams, dubbed Agentic Pods, shadow employees for several days to understand workflows, then rapidly build and test AI-powered tools.The results have been dramatic:* Financial planning cut from 15 hours to 30 minutes.* Financial reports reduced from two days to 10 minutes.* Marketing quality checks shrank from two weeks to under an hour.<\/p>\n Naga emphasised that the real productivity boost comes from workflow redesign \u2014 eliminating redundant approvals, replacing outdated software, and enabling faster decision-making. Several executives compared the approach to Silicon Valley\u2019s forward-deployed engineer model, but with a twist: instead of embedding engineers with customers, Uber is embedding them inside its own operations.Vantortech CPO Peter Wilczynski jokingly dubbed the role the \u201cRearward Deployed Engineer\u201d, describing specialists embedded deep inside corporate processes to reimagine how work gets done with AI.<\/p>\n To bridge the gap between high AI costs and real-world efficiency, Uber launched a project called \u201cAgentic Pods\u201d. The goal was to stop treating AI as an expensive experiment and start using it to redesign complex, manual workflows across departments like Finance, Legal and Marketing.Naga said that the company handpicked approximately 30 of its most AI-proficient engineers and paired them directly with domain experts \u2013 the employees who actually perform the work. The teams operated on a strict, two-week schedule. The claimed that in just two months, Uber successfully ran 16 of these \u201cAgentic Pods\u201d across 16 different business functions, and noted that the efficiency gains were significant.<\/div>\n Earlier this year, Uber\u2019s CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga triggered a \u201ctokenmaxxing panic\u201d after revealing the company nearly blew through its 2026 budget for Anthropic\u2019s Claude Code in just three months. Now, Naga is back with a new lesson. 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