AI for the Fortune 2000: How Tenex Builds an AI-Native SDLC — Alex Lieberman & CJ Hess
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AI for the Fortune 2000: How Tenex Builds an AI-Native SDLC — Alex Lieberman & CJ Hess

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 21, 202643 min
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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 Te...

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and I just felt my output getting better and faster and ultimately getting paid less like I was charging hourly to my client and I phrase it to the team is like you can't automate a process that does not exist so Okay, we're here at AI Engineer, checking with 10X.

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Welcome back, Alex. Thanks. Thanks for having us. You brought your director of engineering, CJ.

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Welcome to the pod. Special projects lead at 10X. Okay, special projects lead. All right, you're the SWAT team.

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