Agile development

How to build an AI-Native Health Company — Dan Feng, Maven Clinic

How to build an AI-Native Health Company — Dan Feng, Maven Clinic

Dan Feng outlines Maven Clinic's transformation into an AI-native company, driven by the realization that "building is cheap and arguing is expensive" in the AI era. This shift has reshaped planning to short, iterative sprints, revolutionized software development with AI coding tools, forced adaptive changes in code review processes, and necessitated a nuanced, multi-layered approach to ensuring reliability in generative AI systems.

Paying Engineers like Salespeople – Arman Hezarkhani, Tenex

Paying Engineers like Salespeople – Arman Hezarkhani, Tenex

Arman Hezarkhani, CTO of Tenex, challenges traditional time-based compensation models for software engineers. He argues that in the age of AI, incentives must be directly tied to value shipped, not hours worked. This talk details Tenex's outcome-based system where engineers are paid per story point, exploring the mechanics, cultural shifts, and risk mitigations that drive a high-velocity, high-trust engineering team.