AI in NYC: How Tenex Builds an AI-Native Engineering Team — Alex Lieberman & CJ Hess

How do you organize an engineering team when AI agents can do more of the implementation? Alex Lieberman and CJ Hess of Tenex join swyx at AI Engineer New York to discuss paying for outcomes, the MetaHarness process, enterprise AI adoption, and where AI-built software can—and cannot—replace SaaS. They explain how Tenex keeps plans, project context and decisions in version control, discuss what gets in the way of deploying agents in companies, and debate the economics of rebuilding software. They also consider the consequences for workers and New York’s AI ecosystem. Chapters: 00:00 Cold open