Dropbox has built and deployed Nova, an internal platform for running AI coding agents at scale across its engineering organization. The platform orchestrates hundreds of concurrent agent tasks, from code generation and review to bug fixing and test writing.
Nova was designed to address the operational challenges of deploying AI coding agents in a large enterprise: managing API costs, enforcing security policies, tracking agent performance, and integrating with existing CI/CD pipelines. Dropbox engineers can request agent assistance through Slack or the CLI, and Nova routes tasks to the appropriate model based on complexity and cost constraints.
The platform supports multiple underlying models and can swap between them as new versions become available. Dropbox reported significant productivity gains in specific workflows like migrating legacy code, generating unit tests, and performing code reviews. The company presented Nova architecture at a recent engineering conference.