Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Hazarkhani: Autonomous 24-hour digital employees will arrive before 2027
“Yeah, I would be more bullish than that person. I would say that it's actually much sooner.”
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Hazarkhani says manual typing in an IDE is an outdated practice
“No one on our team actually types letters into an IDE. If I walk through a WeWork and I see someone typing letters in an IDE, they're working in like, 1990, right?”
Insight
Hazarkhani: Software engineering demand is infinite and increases as price drops
“One of the core beliefs is that the demand for software engineering is infinite. It's completely, as price will go down, the demand will increase”
Insight
Hazarkhani: AI engineers must act as architects delegating to agents
“An AI engineer needs to think like an architect. They have to think as if they're delegating all of their work to other engineers, and when they're delegating their work, how do they do that, right? And not only are they delegating their work to engineers, the…”
Opinion
Hazarkhani: Voice AI is overblown and impractical in offices
“Frankly, I think that the voice thing's overblown. I think that when you work in an office, it's like unrealistic to talk out loud. I think that the voice thing is like useful if you're an executive driving your Tesla to and from work and you want to speak to …”
Opinion
Hazarkhani says frontier developers consider Cursor outdated compared to CLI tools
“Our engineers would call you a boomer for using cursor. Like, that is like, so yesterday. And so the tools that are, like, the big ones right now are Codex CLI and Claude Code CLI.”
Insight
Hazarkhani: Failing to leverage near-free AI agents is a skill issue
“To that I say, basically, if you have a free or near free junior employee and you can't, and you have unlimited versions of this, you could spin up infinite numbers of these near free junior employees. If you can't find a way to generate leverage from that, th…”
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Hazarkhani: Tenex tracks daily margin per employee via output-based pay
“We have the margin down to the day, like we know our margin per employee because we're, we generate, we charge on output and we pay on output and everyone's aligned.”
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Hazarkhani: Engineering drives most Tenex revenue, but AI transformation grows fastest
“So most of the revenue comes from engineering, but our fastest growing part of the business is AI transformation.”
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Hazarkhani: Tenex acquires all customer business through LinkedIn, not X
“All of our businesses come through LinkedIn, not Twitter.”
