NYT Q&A: Grindr CEO George Arison Says He 'Imposed' AI on Staff Over 'Opposition' as Company Pivots to an 'AI-Native' Org With 80% AI-Generated Code

Grindr CEO George Arison tells the NYT he forcibly drove the dating app to become an 'AI-native company,' overriding internal opposition and personally using AI as CEO. Arison says roughly 80% of Grindr's codebase is now AI-generated and frames engineering as architecture rather than code-writing. The Q&A is a rare on-record account of a public-company CEO openly characterizing AI adoption as something he 'imposed' on staff.