Spencer Rascoff
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Oh, for sure.
Yeah.
You saw COVID and then you saw kind of the COVID hangover.
So COVID was a spike for you?
COVID was a spike.
People were sitting at home.
They're on their couch looking at their phones and lonely and wanting connection.
And then people went back to work and kind of dating apps fell out of favor.
Well, one internal metric is just pull requests now that we're doing so much internal AI coding.
Pull requests are up.
They were up 40% year over year a couple months ago.
Now they're up 60% year over year.
So basically the amount of code that our employees are writing.
Yeah.
So our approach to it is we have to pay for these AI tools somehow.
For us, it's $5 to $10 million a year that we're spending on AI tools from basically nothing 18 months ago.
It's new OPEX.
So we're slowing down hiring somewhat.
And that's how we're choosing to fund it.
But in terms of when do we start to see the actual benefit,