Lieberman: Engineers are seeing greater AI leverage than any other knowledge workers
Alex Lieberman · #2284 Why is Morning Brew’s founder selling “AI Transformation”? · Nov 5, 2025 · at 3:15
Alex Lieberman, co-founder of Morning Brew and Tenex, discusses how AI adoption differs across enterprise functions.
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“And one of the things I've realized working around engineers now is engineers are living in the future. Like they are seeing the greatest leverage of AI relative to all areas of knowledge work.”
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