Kinda does have that tone. Even the cover photo for the blog post has the classic AI generated look.
100% AI for the cover photo. If you look at their other blog posts it looks like Uber eng doesn't care. They use lazy AI generated images (not even decent attempts at it) for all blog post cover images.
"Cover Photo Attribution: The cover photo was generated using OpenAI ChatGPT Enterprise."
LLMs are basically trained to sound like mid-to-senior-mid-level Silicon Valley corporate blog-speak. It would not surprise me at all if Uber PR ran some this through some ghostwriting, I've seen that even at smaller places. Maybe it's even LLM-mediated now.