Accelerating LLM-Driven Developer Productivity at Zoox

QCon San Francisco 2025

Session AI/ML

Accelerating LLM-Driven Developer Productivity at Zoox

Wednesday Nov 19 / 11:45AM PST, Ballroom BC at Hyatt Regency, San Francisco

Abstract

Over the past year, Zoox has invested in integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into the entire developer lifecycle through a companywide initiative called Zoox Intelligence (ZI). This session covers how the team approached this transformation by mapping the real developer journey, building a flexible AI platform, and delivering applications across information discovery, personal productivity, software development, and customer support.

The talk explains how the platform was designed, how models were selected, and how it supports every part of the developer lifecycle. This includes faster information discovery, smoother onboarding, improved personal productivity, better code creation and review, and stronger customer support. It also highlights platform capabilities such as Tools and the Agents as API pattern, which allows teams to run custom agents with simple APIs rather than full deployments. These same foundations also power workflows unique to autonomous vehicle development, such as triaging events from the autonomy fleet and preparing for future customers.

A central focus of the session is the blueprint Zoox used to accelerate AI adoption across the company. This includes platform principles, application strategy, evangelism methods, and organizational patterns that help AI leads drive meaningful impact.

Whether an organization is early in its AI journey or scaling an internal platform, attendees will leave with a practical playbook they can bring back to their teams.

Topics

AI/ML LLMs Platform Engineering Developer Experience Staff Plus Engineering
76% senior dev or higher
1:11 speaker ratio
60+ practitioners

QCon San Francisco 2025 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.

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