AI Weekly Malaysia

Latent Space interviews Tenex's Alex Lieberman and CJ Hess about scaling an AI-native SDLC: Tenex still ties engineering compensation partly to story points, has grown to 75 people serving Fortune 2000 and mid-market clients, and is shifting from an AI-powered dev shop toward company-wide AI transformation work. CJ describes MetaHarness—shared skills, project docs, and a CLI—with plans and decisions checked into Git so agents can read why code was built that way. The episode also cites a Kill My SaaS experiment where builders were asked to replace a speaker-management tool quoted at $43,000/year.

Why: If you bill by the hour while using agents, this episode gives a concrete alternative: price delivered outcomes and keep decision rationale in Git so agents see not just code but the reasoning behind it. The $43,000/year SaaS replacement prompt is a practical benchmark for asking whether your own tool stack is worth rebuilding with agents—or whether cheaper builds should change what you charge.