Inside the feature store powering real-time AI in Dropbox Dash

Beyond code generation: rethinking engineering productivity in the age of AI agents

Dropbox has moved beyond solely using AI coding tools to accelerate code generation and is now focusing on creating agentic systems that can execute scoped tasks. This shift has changed the way engineers work, with implementation workflows becoming more parallel and repetitive execution being offloaded to AI agents. As a result, Dropbox has built a platform called Nova, which allows engineers to describe tasks in plain language and run AI agents in a controlled environment, producing meaningful output and changing the operating model of software development.