Saa s disruption

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

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

Alex Lieberman and CJ Hess of Tenex discuss how an AI-native engineering consultancy organizes its work around outcomes, not hours. They cover story-point compensation, the MetaHarness workflow that keeps plans and decisions in Git, token economics and model choices, the gap between enterprise AI rollouts and production agents, why vertical AI and mid-tier SaaS may or may not survive, and what this means for jobs and New York's AI scene.

How Warp Went From YC to a $60M Series B

How Warp Went From YC to a $60M Series B

Warp founder & CEO Ayush Sharma discusses building an AI-native employee management platform in a competitive market, detailing how "unsexy" payroll problems became a powerful wedge and why AI fundamentally shifts enterprise software development. He explains what "AI-native" means for product architecture and company structure, the advantage it gives technical founders, and Warp's vision for "systems of intelligence" to empower customers with AI agents for complex HR workflows.