Gumroad slashes human payroll 90% from $419K to $43K monthly since 2021; AI token spending now matches employee costs as algorithms write most code, cut support response times from 24 hours to 2 minutes.

Gumroad Says That It's Now Spending As Much On Human Employees As AI Tokens

Some comapnies are now spending as much on AI as human employees.Gumroad is the latest to put a number on it, and the number is striking mostly because of how far it had to fall to get there. Founder and CEO Sahil Lavingia shared a chart this week showing Gumroad’s human payroll against its AI token spend going back to June 2021. In June 2021, the company spent $419K on W2 employees and contractors, and literally nothing on AI. That figure held roughly steady through 2022 at $406K, before beginn...