AI for the Fortune 2000: How Tenex Builds an AI-Native SDLC — Alex Lieberman & CJ Hess
Alex Lieberman and CJ Hess join swyx at AI Engineer New York to discuss Tenex’s approach to AI-native engineering, paying for outcomes, MetaHarness, enterprise AI adoption and rebuilding SaaS. Show notes: Tenex: https://www.tenex.co/ Building an AI-native SDLC: https://www.tenex.co/blog/building-an-ai-native-sdlc Earlier Tenex episode: https://www.latent.space/p/10x-ai-engineers-with-1m-salaries Kill My SaaS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlD-CkLVKtU Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vki6cklFqxo 0:00 Cold open 0:26 Introductions 0:51 What Tenex does 1:32 Why CJ joined Tenex 3:17 Paying engineers for outcomes 7:20 Inside MetaHarness 10:25 Models and long-running tasks 15:11 Token spending and ROI 19:29 The enterprise AI adoption gap 23:22 Why agent deployment is hard 24:42 Vertical AI and enterprise software 30:32 Kill My SaaS 35:23 AI and jobs 38:18 New York’s AI ecosystem 42:28 Hiring at Tenex This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.latent.space/subscribe
