Databricks says new engineers ship impactful PRs by day two with AI tools

Yuchen Jin says Databricks now gives new engineers access to AI development tools, lets them ask AI questions on day one, and has them land impactful pull requests by day two.

He contrasts this with earlier onboarding, which he says took about two weeks of reading design docs and the codebase with a buddy before an engineer landed a small patch in week three. The report is a single post by Jin; it gives no data on how many engineers were measured or on the quality of the pull requests.