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From Stop Hiring Humans to Be More Human — Jaspar Carmichael-Jack (Artisan) #011
Artisan's earlier Stop Hiring Humans campaign put the company on the map. But founder and CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack says the message didn't fit all its customers: enterprise sales teams were using Ava to help their existing people do more. Inside Artisan, he says the team is around 50 people, despite earlier plans to grow beyond 100. And some employees' AI token bills became large enough that hiring another person could have been cheaper.
The practical question is which work AI can do reliably and at a sensible cost. Jaspar explains why Artisan stepped back from maximizing token use to focus…
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