AI made CJ Hess faster—and hourly billing meant he earned less for the same work. Tenex built an engineering organization around paying for output instead.
@businessbarista and
@seejayhess of
@tenex_labs join
@swyx at
@aiDotEngineer New York to discuss story points, agent workflows, enterprise AI, and what happens when you build your own software.
0:00 Cold open
3:17 Paying engineers for outcomes
7:20 Inside MetaHarness
19:29 The enterprise AI adoption gap
23:22 You can’t automate a process that doesn’t exist
24:42 The debate over vertical AI
30:32 Kill My SaaS: build vs. buy
35:23 AI and jobs
38:18 New York’s AI ecosystem
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