How the people building AI at Dropbox use AI themselves

AI isn't just transforming the way we work, but also the way we write the software that people use for work. In this episode, we talk to two engineering productivity leads at Dropbox: Uma Namasivayam, senior director of software engineering productivity, and Anuradha Agarwal, director of software engineering. Whether it’s writing tests, fixing bugs, tackling tech debt, or accelerating migrations, they explain how Dropbox engineers are using agentic AI—including in-house tools like Nova—to build the future of Dropbox, and create more space to do impactful work.

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