What Happened When We Treated AI Like an Engineering Teammate

How an AI engineering assistant boosted sprint velocity by 20% and modernized services up to 10x faster. by: Sumedha Shenoy, Director, Engineering Tech Lead, and Kamal Jackson, Sr Manager, Engineering Tech Lead Quick Bytes: A growing backlog of essential but repetitive “glue work” was slowing the Restaurant Topology Management (RTM) team’s ability to modernize and deliver new features By treating an AI engineering assistant as an autonomous teammate — not a chatbot — the team offloaded end‑to‑end maintenance tasks at scale The result was 20% faster sprint velocity, security updates completed t