Every CEO: after automating everything with AI agents, headcount grew from 4 to 30
AlishaOutridge · x · 2026-10-11
Every CEO Dan Shipper's essay After Automation explains the paradox that his fully agent-automated company grew from 4 to 30 employees since GPT-3. AI made expert competence cheap, which raises demand for real experts; roles shifted (managers committing code, AI answering 95% of his emails) rather than disappearing. Also cites Meta's 8,000-person layoff and keystroke monitoring for training data.
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