10-person Spawn spends 30x payroll on AI tokens, ships 77,000 changes a month
mattshumer_ · x · 2026-10-29
The founder of Spawn (10 people) shares two years of lessons running the "most AI-pilled company": 30x payroll spent on AI tokens, 77,000 substantial changes shipped in 30 days (108/hour). Agents pick their own names and avatars, remember everything, "dream," and get Sundays off; they fix every user-hit error and self-verify with no human in the loop — breaking prod is fine as long as fixes are fast. Only Anthropic models pass his bar: he says OpenAI's produce reward hackers while xAI and Google's are "village idiots." Full details in his linked article.
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