Grindr CEO George Arison said that AI increased the company's engineering output 2.5-fold, a figure he described as a "conservative estimate" for the period between July 2025 and April 2026, with "minimal growth" in engineering staff. He stated that before generative AI, producing that much technical output "would have required roughly 200 additional engineers and approximately $60 million in annual cost." Arison noted the actual multiple was 3.5x on the company's second-quarter earnings call, but they changed it to 2.5x because the larger increase sounded "unreasonable." Grindr measured output in the amount of code shipped, a metric some critics say prioritizes quantity over quality. Arison told CNBC that the company was on track to spend $6 million on tokens this year, adding that people should use all available tools "as long as the ROI that we want to see is there." He wrote that the industry's constraint has been a "scarcity of exceptional engineering talent," and AI allows Grindr to keep its most exceptional engineers focused on areas benefiting from "human creativity and judgment." His remarks were notably about not creating new jobs rather than cutting existing ones.