DevOps / SRE / Platform · 01.08.2026, 10:48 UTC
Temporal 5x’d AI spend and doubled revenue. CEO Samar Abbas says he can’t prove they’re connected.
| Schweregrad | info |
|---|---|
| Kategorie | DevOps / SRE / Platform |
| Quelle | The New Stack ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 01.08.2026 UTC |
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For the final two weeks of the year, Temporal clears its calendars. The company calls it a reading period: no meetings, just time to explore, learn, and build. Over the ‘25 holidays, co-founder and CTO Maxim Fateev spent his time with coding agents. He came back describing work that once took six months, now done in less than thirty days, according to the company. Co-founder and CEO Samar Abbas credits that break with setting the company’s AI posture for the year. A fellow co-founder returning with numbers like that, he says, is a stronger argument than any company directive.
That shift, from a veteran engineer to a veteran engineer with Claude Code, led Abbas toward redirecting the company’s efforts. Temporal sells durable execution, the failure-resistant plumbing that keeps long-running software alive through crashes and outages, and it sells it to companies that cannot afford downtime. Nvidia and Netflix are among the companies using its workflow technology.
In February, the company raised $300 million at a $5 billion valuation on the promise that it can make agentic AI reliable for everyone else. Abbas, Temporal’s CEO who swapped roles with now-CTO Fateev in 2024, decided the company had to prove that on its own first. He calls the effort “AI for Temporal.”
AI adoption as a job requirement
“We are a company of builders, which means it’s not just engineering,” Abbas tells The New Stack. “The entire company needs to re-evaluate how business gets done and how it uses these tools.”
At more than 500 people — 200 of them engineers — that is a lot of re-evaluating. The …
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