How a 9-Person Startup Replaced Its Dev Team With AI
Patrick Hughes
The Wall Street Journal ran a piece yesterday on JustPaid, a 9-person Mountain View startup. They used OpenClaw and Claude Code to stand up seven AI agents that write code, review it, and run QA around the clock. In one month: 10 major features shipped. Each one would have taken a human engineer a month or more. This story is getting passed around as proof that the autonomous engineering team is here. It is. But the detail everyone skips is the one that actually matters if you are trying to buil