Why this founder let go of his remote team and chose AI to code instead

Inlang founder Samuel Stroschein didn’t set out to fire his entire engineering team. In fact, by his own account, they were doing everything right—shipping a product users loved, gaining traction with enterprise clients, and operating smoothly from Europe while he expanded operations in the US.

But in mid-2024, things shifted. Fast.

“I started outshipping my remote team with the emergence of AI,” Stroschein wrote in a viral thread on X (formerly Twitter).

With tools like Claude Code, ChatGPT-4o, and the AI-powered IDE Cursor, Stroschein says…