™AI in NYC: How Tenex Builds an AI-Native Engineering Team — Alex Lieberman & CJ Hess
A 43-minute interview recorded at AI Engineer New York: Tenex's Alex Lieberman and CJ Hess on paying AI engineers for delivered outcomes instead of hours, the MetaHarness engineering system, and the enterprise AI adoption gap.
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What Tenex does: an applied AI partner for large enterprises, helping them go from AI-absent to AI-native
Paying engineers for outcomes: story points as the basis of compensation instead of hourly billing
MetaHarness: a shared engineering system that checks plans and decision docs into Git alongside code
Token spending and ROI
The enterprise AI adoption gap
Why agent deployment is hard
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