Hazarkhani: AI engineers must act as architects delegating to agents
Arman Hazarkhani · #2284 Why is Morning Brew’s founder selling “AI Transformation”? · Nov 5, 2025 · at 11:54
Tenex co-founder Arman Hazarkhani explains the operational difference between traditional software engineering and managing autonomous AI coding agents.
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“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, they're very special engineers, these AI agents. They're Incredibly high IQ, but they make really stupid mistakes that as you work with them regularly, you can understand what they are.”
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