Per SEC filings Uber has close to 4 million drivers worldwide. Even if you divide by 4 to account for part time drivers, you'd need 10k dispatchers. If their engineers make 5x as much as the dispatchers than you could have 2k engineers solely dedicated to automating dispatch and still break even.

I think they roughly have 2k engineers total and I have no idea what the breakdown is of what they do.

I'm betting dispatchers were making $30-50k. So devs make 10-20x that. But still similar math. I am just guessing at a lot of the numbers tho.

So, a much better paying job that probably doesn't suck as much. I think this is a win.

Not for dispatchers who aren't able to code.

Most people are able to code. Vast majority of people who can function as dispatchers would be mentally capable of coding.

Many people don't have the luxury of free time to learn skills like coding or the opportunity.