# Dating app CEO financially breaks down what AI has done for company > Source: > Published: 2026-08-10 16:46:43+00:00 # Dating app CEO financially breaks down what AI has done for company [Grindr](/topic/grindr)CEO George Arison stated that[artificial intelligence](/topic/artificial-intelligence)has increased the company's engineering output by up to 3.5 times without significantly growing its staff.- Arison estimated that achieving the same technical output without [AI](/topic/ai)would have required hiring approximately 200 additional engineers at an annual[cost](/topic/cost)of $60 million. - The dating app company measured its increased productivity by tracking the amount of code shipped by its engineering team. - Arison noted that using AI allows Grindr's human engineers to focus on areas that benefit most from human creativity and judgment. - Arison is one of the few corporate executives to provide specific figures on the headcount and financial savings generated by AI integration.