INSIDE WEAVE: the startup measuring AI at 1,000+ companies
Microsoft just offered buyouts to 60,000 employees while doubling down on AI. So is AI actually replacing engineers? Weave measures what engineering teams actually ship across 1,000+ companies (including teams like Robinhood and Posthog) , so I went inside their San Francisco office to find out what the data says. Co-founder & CEO Adam Cohen explains why some teams are 20x faster while others pay the same and barely get 2x, what a "software factory" is, and why "tokenmaxxing" (burning as many AI tokens as possible to top internal leaderboards) is backfiring. We also meet Brennan, Weave's first ever hire, see how the team uses Composio to connect all their accounts inside GrowthOS, and talk to Sanjog, Weave's forward deployed engineer, about why plugging in AI isn't enough on its own. This is Agents at Work by Composio, a series going inside the companies building with AI agents. ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 People spending $100K a month on AI 0:22 Is AI actually making engineers more productive? 0:53 Office tour with Sammy & Coco 2:03 Meet Adam Cohen, co-founder & CEO 2:19 The story behind Weave's mascot 2:54 Is AI working? 20x vs 2x 3:49 What Weave actually does 4:24 What's a software factory? 5:43 Is code quality going down? 6:44 What I know so far 6:57 Tokenmaxxing explained 7:47 How engineers game AI metrics 8:37 Team lunch 9:59 Meet Brennan, employee #1 10:43 What a GTM engineer actually does 11:22 GrowthOS: a whole growth team in one tool 11:51 The 8-foot token jar 13:04 How Composio powers GrowthOS 13:38 Why doesn't every company just plug in Weave? 14:05 Sanjog: what companies get wrong in month one 14:41 When you need a forward deployed engineer 15:25 What engineering leaders actually want from AI 16:00 Why engineers should see their own data 17:28 What I learned 🔗 Links Weave: https://workweave.ai Composio: https://composio.dev Adam Cohen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-b-cohen/ Sammy Tourani: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sammytourani/ Brennan Lupyrypa: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brennan-lupyrypa/ Sanjog Gururaj: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjog-gururaj/ #AI #AIagents #SoftwareEngineering #Startups #Composio