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Lieberman asserts corporate claims that AI will not eliminate jobs are false
“Well, I mean, my, one thing I would say just specifically to the truism you just said, is I really just think it is, like, Bullshit. And like, basically every executive is like on one hand being like, how can I use AI in my company? On the other hand is saying…”
Lieberman says Tenex's top output-based engineer will make $1M next year
“Our clients pay us based on output, and our engineers are paid on output as well. And the reason that is so valuable is we can hire truly the best engineers I've ever worked with, because just as an example, like our best engineer will make a million bucks in …”
Lieberman: Engineers are seeing greater AI leverage than any other knowledge workers
“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.”
Lieberman: Service businesses will shift away from hourly billing starting in engineering
“We don't charge hourly. Like, we have a fundamental belief that service businesses are going to move away from hourly work, and we think it's starting with engineering.”
Lieberman: Modern AI dev shops use intelligence arbitrage, not labor arbitrage
“It's basically if traditional dev orgs or dev shops are labor arbitrage, we're intelligence arbitraging.”
Lieberman uses 12-month engineering contracts as Trojan horse for AI consulting
“How do we use that to sign 12 month contracts that is highly retentive, highly recurring, and we use that as the Trojan horse to do transformation work after having that line of business.”
Lieberman: Half of Tenex Clients Come Through Free AI Diagnostics
“Half of our clients have come through these free AI diagnostics we do. And so we run these diagnostics. They take two weeks. Most of it's been automated. The only thing that's not automated is basically three hours of stakeholder interviews, but half of those …”
Lieberman: EOS implementers charge up to $15,000 a day for off-sites
“A lot of people hire actual implementers who either run your off-sites, help you with EOS implementation, and they charge a shit ton of money. Like, you know, it could be like 15,000 dollars a day for being at your off-site or with implementation.”