> Shaving a couple seconds off that will not provide any tangible benefit.

It could be more than that.

I switched from pip to uv today in a Dockerized project with 45 total dependencies (top level + sub-dependencies included).

pip takes 38 seconds and uv takes 3 seconds, both uncached. A 10x+ difference is massive and if uv happens to be better suited to run on multiple cores it could be even more because my machine is a quad core i5 3.20ghz from 10 years ago.

> I work in a place with 200 developers

In your case, if you have 200 developers spending an hour on builds that could in theory be reduced down to 5 minutes per build. That's 11,000 minutes or 183 hours of dev time saved per 1 build. I know you say it's automated but someone is almost always waiting for something right?

For what it's worth uv is fully compatible with pip. just replace 'pip --foo bar' with 'uv pip --foo bar'. One project I'm working on is 100% 'classic' pip based with no plans of moving, but I still use uv when working on it as it is completely transparent. Uv manages my venvs and python versions and makes things like switching between different versions of python and libraries much smoother, and I can still use the same pip commands as everybody else, it's just that all my pip commands run faster.