Uber CEO says the company is slowing hiring as it invests in AI

Ah, Dara Khosrowshahi has let the cat out of the bag: roughly 10% of Uber's code changes are now written by 'autonomous agents' — which is corporate speak for 'we've taught a glorified autocomplete to churn out Python without needing a lunch break.' And the response? Slowing hiring. Of course. Dara's plan is a masterpiece of CEO logic: invest more in AI, hire fewer people, and hope the bots don't unionise.

Let's savour the specifics. Ten percent of code changes. That's not nothing — that's real, measurable displacement. But hey, why let reality get in the way of a good narrative?

This is the future, folks: the taxi company that automated the booking app, then the dispatch, and is now nibbling at the actual engineering. The gig economy is coming for the gig-economy makers. Dara's vision is a world where Uber's code is written by bots, driven by bots, and — presumably — complained about by bots when the surge pricing kicks in. The only humans left will be the ones pressing 'accept' on the EULA. Cheers to progress.