spawn: 10-person company spends 30x payroll on AI tokens, ships like Anthropic
Scobleizer · x · 2026-10-29
The founder of spawn shared two years of notes on running 'the most AI-pilled company in the world,' amplified by VC joshelman:
- 10 people, spending 30x payroll on AI tokens, shipping nearly as much as Anthropic
- Agents pick their own names and profile pics, remember everything, 'dream,' and rest on Sundays
- Agents fix every user-hit error and verify their own work with no human in the loop; breaking production is fine as long as fixes are fast
- Model verdict: only Anthropic's models can do the job; OpenAI reward-hacks, xAI/Google 'make village idiots'
Key insight: empowering humans to manage swarms of agents requires thoughtful scaffolding and a constitution — a new shape of company.
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