Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast - ⚡️ 10x AI Engineers with $1m Salaries — Alex Lieberman & Arman Hezarkhani, Tenex

Episode Date: November 19, 2025

Alex Lieberman and Arman Hezarkani, co-founders of Tenex, reveal how they’re revolutionizing software consulting by compensating AI engineers for output rather than hours—enabling some engineers t...o earn over $1 million annually while delivering 10x productivity gains. Their company represents a fundamental rethinking of knowledge work compensation in the age of AI agents, where traditional hourly billing models perversely incentivize slower work even as AI tools enable unprecedented speed.The Genesis: From 90% Downsizing to 10x Output The story behind 10X begins with Arman’s previous company, Parthian, where he was forced to downsize his engineering team by 90%. Rather than collapse, Arman re-architected the entire product and engineering process to be AI-first—and discovered that production-ready software output increased 10x despite the massive headcount reduction. This counterintuitive result exposed a fundamental misalignment: engineers compensated by the hour are disincentivized from leveraging AI to work faster, even when the technology enables dramatic productivity gains. Alex, who had invested in Parthian, initially didn’t believe the numbers until Arman walked him through why LLMs have made such a profound impact specifically on engineering as knowledge work.The Economic Model: Story Points Over Hours 10X’s core innovation is compensating engineers based on story points—units of completed, quality output—rather than hours worked. This creates direct economic incentives for engineers to adopt every new AI tool, optimize their workflows, and maximize throughput. The company expects multiple engineers to earn over $1 million in cash compensation next year purely from story point earnings. To prevent gaming the system, they hire for two profiles: engineers who are “long-term selfish” (understanding that inflating story points will destroy client relationships) and those who genuinely love writing code and working with smart people. They also employ technical strategists incentivized on client retention (NRR) who serve as the final quality gate before any engineering plan reaches a client.Impressive Builds: From Retail AI to App Store Hits The results speak for themselves. In one project, 10X built a computer vision system for retail cameras that provides heat maps, queue detection, shelf stocking analysis, and theft detection—creating early prototypes in just two weeks for work that previously took quarters. They built Snapback Sports’ mobile trivia app in one month, which hit 20th globally on the App Store. In a sales context, an engineer spent four hours building a working prototype of a fitness influencer’s AI health coach app after the prospect initially said no—immediately moving 10X to the top of their vendor list. These examples demonstrate how AI-enabled speed fundamentally changes sales motions and product development timelines.The Interview Process: Unreasonably Difficult Take-Homes Despite concerns that AI would make take-home assessments obsolete, 10X still uses them—but makes them “unreasonably difficult.” About 50% of candidates don’t even respond, but those who complete the challenge demonstrate the caliber needed. The interview process is remarkably short: two calls before the take-home, review, then one or two final meetings—completable in as little as a week. A signature question: “If you had infinite resources to build an AI that could replace either of us on this call, what would be the first major bottleneck?” The sophisticated answer isn’t just “model intelligence” or “context length”—it’s controlling entropy, the accumulating error rate that derails autonomous agents over time.The Limiting Factor: Human Capital, Not Technology Despite being an AI-first company, 10X’s primary constraint is human capital—finding and hiring enough exceptional engineers fast enough, then matching them with the right processes to maintain delivery quality as they scale. The company has ambitions beyond consulting to build their own technology, but for the foreseeable future, recruiting remains the bottleneck. This reveals an important insight about the AI era: even as technology enables unprecedented leverage, the constraint shifts to finding people who can harness that leverage effectively.Full Video EpisodeTimestamps00:00:00 Introduction and Meeting the 10X Co-founders00:01:29 The 10X Moment: From Hourly Billing to Output-Based Compensation00:04:44 The Economic Model Behind 10X00:05:42 Story Points and Measuring Engineering Output00:08:41 Impressive Client Projects and Rapid Prototyping00:12:22 The 10X Tech Stack: TypeScript and High Structure00:13:21 AI Coding Tools: The Daily Evolution00:15:05 Human Capital as the Limiting Factor00:16:02 The Unreasonably Difficult Interview Process00:17:14 Entropy and Context Engineering: The Future of AI Agents00:23:28 The MCP Debate and AI Industry Sociology00:26:01 Consulting, Digital Transformation, and Conference Insights This is a public episode. 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Starting point is 00:00:03 Okay, we're here in the remote studio with Alex Lieberman and Armand, oh my God, I did not forget this. Leave it in. How do I thought it? Leave it. I just don't say Armand. Keep it rolling. If it makes you feel bad for the first probably 20 times that I said Armand's name, I said it the wrong way and he was very polite in guiding me to the right pronunciation. He used to say, Armin, not Armand.
Starting point is 00:00:30 So it's okay. It's totally fine. I don't think you have to. I mean, it's Hezercani, but we don't need to. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Armand Hezercati is fine. Amazing. Yeah, that's funny.
Starting point is 00:00:42 Honestly, it's even funnier now, whereas you're about to introduce him, you just dub Armand's saying his own name over your mouth. Introducing Armand Hezorki. That's so funny. It's like when you're like on a voicemail and you're like saying your name while like the automated machine thing. Totally. So you guys are. the co-founders of 10X and also emcees and speakers at AIAIE, right? So I mean, and I think for me,
Starting point is 00:01:11 I have a little bit of extra context on Alex because I follow Morning Brook for a while. You have been an inspiration on the newsletter business. But let's talk about 10x, you know, like I think my goal here is just to introduce people to you guys, maybe you individually and then you together. So whoever wants to take it first. Well, I can give you a little bit of the backstory behind the business and how Armand and I got to know each other, and then Armand, I'm sure, will fill in some gaps. You know, Armand and I met in 2020 when I had invested in his previous business, Parthian.
Starting point is 00:01:46 And Parthian was a AI financial tools business, originally for consumers, being AI tooling for financial advisors, our RIAs. And, you know, throughout Arman, building that business, we had continued to talk about just our philosophy on product, how AI was influencing just product in general. And I kind of think, especially for non-technical folks like myself, there's like a moment where you get smacked in the face by how profound
Starting point is 00:02:17 this technology can be, if harnessed in the right way. And I experienced that moment in conversation with Armand. So it was probably this point nine months, nine-ish months ago. Armand and I were talking and he had shared a story about with Parthian, he unfortunately had to downsize his engineering org. And when he had downsized his engineering org, he had to decrease the size of his engineering team by 90%. And when he did so, he had to rebuild. He had to basically re-architect the entire product and engineering process to be AI first because he just no longer had it human resource. And so he needed to like accelerate it with this technology. And basically what Armana had share with me is that output of production ready software had text after making this shift with
Starting point is 00:03:04 the org. And I kind of didn't believe him at first because I had never seen kind of that level of leverage. Like I'd use CHAPGTPT, I'd use GROC, I'd use all these things. And yes, they've been life-changing for me, but I wouldn't have explained them as 10x experiences. So we basically talked through it and he kind of shared with me why AI and specifically LOMs have made such a profound impact on engineering as a type of knowledge work. And from there, the thought was around how the way in which engineers are compensated has to change materially. Because if you think about it, like historically, people charge for their time by hour. And then all of a sudden, let's just say you're a new, like you're truly an AI engineer who's truly 10x higher throughput.
Starting point is 00:03:52 Imagine you're selling your work and someone's used to pay spending $100 an hour for an engineer and you go to them and you look them dead in the eyes and you're like yeah I'm a thousand bucks an hour you're going to get laughed out of the room even though you're you're better engineer than the engineer they would have hired and also you're perversely incentivized because you leveraging AI in your work as you operating faster but your incentive just like a lawyer or just like any hour pay based knowledge worker is to rack up as many hours as possible and so like actually the kernel of insight that started all of 10x was how do we hire the best engineers in the world how do we offer them unlimited upside by compensating them for output rather than hours
Starting point is 00:04:36 and then how do we harness that in the right direction to help companies transform with AI in their business so I know there's a lot there but armand is there anything I missed I mean basically yeah like I think Alex covered it like I was writing code and I was deeply incentivize to generate more output, high quality output, but faster, more, right? And it's because there's my company. But the whole thought is like when you work at someone else's company, even if you have some equity, even if you deeply care about the mission, you're not deeply incentivized day in and day out to try new AI tools and push yourself to work better and faster and smarter. And so the economic model behind our company is one that does drive that. And my talk is basically to show how we do
Starting point is 00:05:19 that and how I think other companies might be able to adopt similar models. This is very tempting because every question I'm asked might actually just leak your talk. It's okay. The talk will just reiterate very important points. I mean, it should stand on its own on YouTube, right? So it's whatever. I do like to encourage people to remix the content in different formats. So this is the podcast version.
Starting point is 00:05:42 Totally. So I think like I think that the classic thing is, well, what is a unit of output of a software engineer? Is it a PR? is it a story point? It's extremely unclear and it's very basically unsolved. Like, I mean, don't tell me you solved it. You know, like, what's, maybe you have.
Starting point is 00:05:57 I don't know, but I'm default skeptical on the, well, what gets measured gets gained. Yeah, we do use story points. But you're right that it's easy to game it, right? Like if we were to hire somebody who just, like if you think about a technical system, right, a smart hacker will find ways to exploit it and the easy way to exploit the story point system,
Starting point is 00:06:18 is to deflate the concept of a story point and decide that, okay, any line of code, like lines of code are going to be directly proportional and equal to story points. Well, then, of course, you've hacked the system, right? But your clients will churn and you'll probably get let go of and it just won't work long term. And so what we found is that hiring two, what we found is that this problem gets solved in the hiring process and it gets solved by hiring people who fall into two buckets. One is people who are selfish, but they're long-term selfish. Everybody's selfish, but we need to look for people who are long-term selfish.
Starting point is 00:06:53 People who understand that these incentives are longer than just today's story points. They're forever, right? And we need to think about how do we maintain the client relationship? And that means that we're going to give them very robust story points so that we can maintain the relationship and continue to make money. But the other is that we hire people who just like writing code and like working with really smart people. and they're not sharp elbowed and they just want to do great work.
Starting point is 00:07:17 And that sounds squishy, but that really is a part of it as well. I think both are really important. Just two other things I would quickly add is one, when we work with clients at 10X, there's basically two role players. There's the AI engineer and then there's the technical strategist.
Starting point is 00:07:32 And one of the best ways to fight perverse incentives is to incentivize two people at odds with each other in a healthy way. And so our technical strategists are incentivized, based on NRR, are incentivized based on retention and account growth for a client, and they are the final one to sign off on the engineering plan for a client before we begin a sprint. So, like, they are the last line of defense of quality before a client ever sees anything.
Starting point is 00:08:02 So that's one thought. The interesting thing, and I don't know if Armand has thoughts on why this is, is we have not yet, and again, we're a young company, so this could change at some point, but we had not yet had any clients argue about how we assign story points or ever feel like we are sandbagging story points or any of these things, which is just interesting because I think to your points, which is like, I would have expected that to have already happened. Yeah. It can be a political process when things go not well, but when things go well, you know, everyone's just like steaming ahead. Okay, you hire great people, you work well with story points. I think one thing I'm trying to get my
Starting point is 00:08:37 guests to do a better job of is just brag. Could you brag of it? Yeah, just like some really impressive project that you accomplished, just to open people's minds. Like, let's get, let's get specific without maybe naming the exact client unless you can. And then also, like, what's the highest hourly rate that one of your engineers has made since you're technically unpaid? Yeah. So I'll answer the last one or the second one first. We will probably have more than one engineer make a million dollars cash next year based on this model. And that is just with StoryPoint compensation. It's very likely that we will have more than a handful of folks make more than a million dollars next year.
Starting point is 00:09:17 The answer to the first question, like, for example, one project we built, so we work with this company that's a, they build, they work, they partner with retailers to basically make cameras in the business more valuable. And the way that they do that is they deploy what was historically like a Gen 4 Raspberry Pi to the stores. And they would, they would run like one model on that device. we basically took some off the shelf models and trained some models ourselves and then quantized them down so they could actually run on that four, but also on jets and nanos. And we got them to all run in parallel. So now basically what these models allow you to do is as a store, you can get a heat map. You can see where the lines and the cues are forming in your store. You can even get pictures of shelves and understand what needs to be stocked.
Starting point is 00:10:08 and you can do things like theft detection because we have body analysis and we can understand things like things are crossing arms, right? And this took our team two weeks to put together early prototypes and now we're just refining accuracy and improving metrics from there.
Starting point is 00:10:23 And again, this was like one of the many examples. I think, of course, with that specific example, that's more of a research project and it's going to take a while to improve accuracy and things like that. Like, we're not claiming that we're like these magical beings. But previously that alone, Building a prototype of that would take several quarters for robust teams of engineers together.
Starting point is 00:10:42 And we were able to prototype that out very quickly. And now we're working together with that team for a year to build more and all that stuff. Alex, anything. I mean, I guess another one, Snapback Sports. We built them a mobile app in a month that hit 20th on the App Store globally. And there was no AI in this app. It was a really fun trivia app. But we built it together, deployed it, hit 20th in the world.
Starting point is 00:11:03 Yeah. I mean, one other example I would just add is, and this is just looking at, things from a different angle, which is sales, I think the power of AI engineering and fast prototyping is incredibly powerful within sales motions now. And so just one example is we had a big influencer who wanted to basically build, basically chat GPT, but specifically as if it is your fitness,
Starting point is 00:11:29 like your health and your health coach and your nutritionist. So it has all this context. Is a fitness influencer? Yeah, exactly. And we originally reached out to work with him. And basically he said no because he was like, you guys are like too early. You don't have your like a design team built in yet.
Starting point is 00:11:47 And so he said no. And it seemed like the conversation was done. One of our engineers was like, I'm just going to build a working version of this app as soon as humanly possible. So basically within, I don't know, it probably took him four hours. He got,
Starting point is 00:12:02 he had just like a working version of the app that was in the hands of this influencer. and that influencer hasn't launched the app yet, but we are number one on their list right now to actually do this build. And the only reason is, is the speed by which, like, working product could be in hands of someone
Starting point is 00:12:18 is faster than it's ever been. Yeah, that's amazing. Okay, so a quick question on just the stack that you guys have landed on. Like, is there a house stack? What are you guys finding in terms of like the various coding agents and all that? Yeah, we do work in a number of different stacks,
Starting point is 00:12:35 a number of different languages and stuff, but we feel pretty strongly in like high structure allows for agents to work autonomously for longer. And so our default stack is TypeScript front end, type script back end with a shared file or a shared folder where all of our shared types and schemas and things like that live. And typically React front end or even something as simple
Starting point is 00:12:55 as like express on the back end. Like we don't really care about the frameworks. It's more just like TypeScript allows us to have that flexibility to like the flexibility of JavaScript, but the constraints. of TypeScript, and then those error message will allow the Claude Code or cursor agents or whatever to iterate on themselves and run things, see the errors, and continue. In terms of the actual like AI engineering stack and what coding agents and things like that we're using, I always tell
Starting point is 00:13:22 clients this, like, our team doesn't have a favorite coding agent of the year or of the month, or even of the week. Like, if I go over there to our team right now and I ask them, what model is performing the best for coding right now. They'll say today at 442, we're noticing that Claudecode is actually performing better because of XYZ reason. But yesterday, Codex was outperforming Claudecote code on activities like X, Y, and Z, right? And we stay really, really deeply on top of all the different models, all the different applications of these agents to make sure that we're getting, they're really pushing the most out of this and so that we can advise teams on how they should best use these things. I mean, well, so yeah, but you're going to, it's very anecdotal, right?
Starting point is 00:14:05 Like, don't you need more comprehensive evils because otherwise it's like you are just behaving or believing things based on the luck of the jaw? I think at this state, did a samurai have a measurably better sword than the person to their left or right? No, right? At a certain point, I think a, a warrior's weapon becomes something of a feel. And I think that at this point, a lot of these like the coding agents are so good. Like, yes, you can have evals that, that provably show that one is better than the other. But for a lot of these things, it really is feel. It's like, hey, this agent actually, like, it just, I can work better with it on a warm-blooded level.
Starting point is 00:14:46 Or it writes code more like I like to or whatever. And at least that's what we've noticed. Yeah, fair enough. And so I think, like, there's this, you have like kind of a SWAT team approach. You're paying, you're very meritocratic, I think, is probably the right. right term in this. Are you human bound or are you agent bound? Like what is your limiting factor in 10x becoming a bigger business than, you know, either of you have run before? Today it's human bound 100%. You're recruiting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We are the thing that
Starting point is 00:15:19 keeps us up at night is how can we hire enough good engineers fast enough? And then the second thing that keeps us up is how do we match those the great people within business with the right process such that delivery doesn't suffer as we scale and I think more and more as we build this business like technology is going to be an enabler of the work we do and I think long term if we're to talk about the long term of the business there are ambitions of this business beyond just acting as a transformation and engineering partner for companies there are ambitions to build our own technology, but today and probably for the first April future, we are human capital constrained.
Starting point is 00:16:02 How do you interview? You don't have to like give the exact interview questions, but like has interviewing change for either of you guys pre-AI versus post? Yeah, this is actually somewhat controversial. A lot of my friends stopped doing take-home interviews after AI. We still do take-homes, but our take-homes are immensely, they're like, our take-homes are unreasonably difficult. And so when I first wrote them,
Starting point is 00:16:25 up. I told Alex, I was like, hey, man, like, people might get mad at you. You know, like, you have a public persona. Like, we're sending these to people. Like, your reputation might take a hit if we send these to people because they are so unreasonable for us to ask this of people. And Alex, in classic Alex fashion, was like, F it, let's just do it. You know, like, let's send it. If this is the bar, then bring it. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And what we found is that 50% of the people don't even respond to the take home interview. But because our take home is so difficult, our interview process is actually quite short. We do two calls before the take home, then we send the take home, then we review the take home, and then if it goes well, we do maybe one or two meetings
Starting point is 00:17:06 afterwards. So it can be done in the fastest in a week. It's very, very quick if people can get through that take home. Yeah, and just a few things add. Like I'm thinking about, what are some of the most common questions we ask? A few that Armand asks that I really like are on. He basically says, like, if you had infinite resources to build a AI senior software engineer, like, truly one that could replace either of you on this call right now, what would be the first major bottleneck that you would have to figure out how to overcome to build that? That's one question that he always asks. And Armand, add a curiosity, I don't know if you want to share it because then people will start
Starting point is 00:17:48 giving the right answer on that. But is it, oh, I guess just for SWIX. I can offer one. Yeah, yeah, let's hear it. I mean, so the classic answer is model intelligence, right? Like, we think the models are good, but like actually they have been really trained into a certain sort of local minima of like, well, here's all the Python because three benches all Python, all Django.
Starting point is 00:18:11 And actually, beyond that, we've maybe generalized like a little bit of front end, but hasn't really done like full back end distributed services and all that. So model intelligence is going to be like the main block. but I don't know if that's a good answer because it's kind of like, well, you just wait and maybe the Frontier Labs will solve it. Yeah. I generally think that it has to do with context.
Starting point is 00:18:32 I think it's not necessarily context length. I think that it's context engineering in Andre Carpathie's words, right? It's the problem of how do you get the right context into the LLM and get the LLM to pay attention to the right parts of that context, all of which I would consider context engineering? and then from there it's like, okay, there's a lot of ways that you could solve that, right? You can on the model layer do a lot of work to make sure that the attention mechanisms are paying attention to the right stuff.
Starting point is 00:19:00 You could do work on the application layer to context engineering. You can extend context lengths. Like there's a lot of different work and then it leads to a really interesting discussion. So, so yeah, that's one thing. One thing I was just going to say is I feel like Dan, who's one of our engineers at 10x, he shared a different answer that I remember your reaction to it was like, it broke your brain a little bit. Do you remember what his answer was?
Starting point is 00:19:24 No, I should ask him. I believe it had to do with entropy. I should ask him what it was. There he is, Dan, come here. What was the question that we asked you during the interview? Remember, like, I asked you if you had unlimited resources and you needed to build an AI engineer, what would you need to solve? You gave me an answer that like, bling on the line.
Starting point is 00:19:43 What would be like the limiting factor? Yeah. Yeah, what was it? I said it was like controlling entropy. Oh, there it is. Yeah, controlling entropy. Controlling entropy. Swix does not agree with Dan.
Starting point is 00:19:55 If there is some error rate in your question was basically. Wait, come closer so they can hear you. Come closer to my headphones. This is Swix. You're on a podcast. Yeah, we can hear you. We can hear you. That's good.
Starting point is 00:20:05 It's good. We're rolling with it. So basically, like, if there is some, your question was about a fully autonomous, like, coding loop. Yeah. So, like, what would it take to get the human out of the loop? If in that loop you have some error rate, let's say it's 99, percent accurate with code.
Starting point is 00:20:22 Even that 1% error rate will just multiply and decay more and more and that entropy will build and accumulate. And that's like kind of a compounding thing that will derail the agent more and more. And so I think it's less of like a context engineering question per thing you're implementing. And it's like making sure that the agent can reduce the entropy for a given task such that it gets to 100% accuracy. And then you don't have this like a. accumulating error issue.
Starting point is 00:20:51 Cool, man. Thanks, brother. No, that was impressive. Oh, no, actually, so that's like, that's, that's the sophisticated version of context engineering, right? Like, a lot of people are going to answer context engineering. Exactly. We are one of the people that coined context engineering coming to speak, I think, in one of,
Starting point is 00:21:05 I think, one of the early sessions on Friday. And, yeah, like, but this is the actually, like, the advanced, like, yes, this is one of the four ways in which long context fail. And if you have enough experience, you know that this is the one that gets a lot of agents off track. And once they're off track, it's really hard to get them back on track. Exactly. And going back to your question.
Starting point is 00:21:23 I wouldn't use the same words, but yeah, I get it. And going back to your question about constraints in the business, it's just how do we find more people like him is the thing that keeps us up at night? Well, you know, I'm in the business of making more. You're helping to contribute by putting this conference together. Where we're just sharing knowledge and the more people that watch are kind of like drawn to you. They might answer your call to action of like finding out one of your super hard tests. Or it needs just learning and just advancing the state of the industry.
Starting point is 00:21:52 For sure. So I'm excited to have you guys. Do you have any questions for me? I mean, you know, it's like a whole like two, three day affair. You know, I've done this a little bit now. One question I have for you is like as Armand knows that I'm voraciously curious and I'm a lifelong learner, but I'm also not an end here by training. And my goal is to get as smart about this space as quickly as possible.
Starting point is 00:22:14 And so like, you know, I, one of the first things I did is, Was it, Armand, did you send me the three blue, one brown lecture? Like, do you know three blue one brown? Like, does the lecture on LMs, I took that? Then he's like, if you want to go super deep, do any of Andre Carpathies, like, he does, like, the lecture series on how ChachyPT works. And he's, like, actually, like, write out notes by hand and, like, you truly understand, like, the math behind these models. And Armand did that. And he was like, it's just like, that's how you understand things at the deepest level.
Starting point is 00:22:46 So when I'm not either working or taking care of a four-month loan at home, that is next on the list. But I guess my question for you is like as a non-technical person who's always been like both enamored and intimidated by technical folks, what would you do if you were me to make the most of this conference where when I'm not like the core archetype of the person who's there? Jeez. Yeah, that's that's a tough one because I spend zero time thinking about that. Okay, so so I think like latch on to the keywords and whatever people are excited about like context and engineering people excited about maybe four or five months ago and now it's like entering the mainstream. Typically the people at this kind of conference would be sort of stewing around those ideas. The last time we were here in New York, MCP was kind of just taking off and we did the workshop and
Starting point is 00:23:30 that really blew up MCP. And I think like that is something that you will see a little bit of. Like the just like, by the way, Armand Grims grins because he has very strong feelings about MCP, very strong feelings. Pro-O-A-N-Tai. We're hosting a debate. I just think that MCP is a three-letter word for API. And like, Alex always every time he hears someone say the word, the letters MCP in that order,
Starting point is 00:23:57 he tells them that I hate MCP and starts a war, a religious debate. No. Well, I will say, though, like, do you think a few of our engineers have warmed you up to it more with specific use cases, Armand? Yeah, I mean, like, are MCPs useful? Like, of course, I use all the MCPs with cloud code. I just think that there's like what what bothers me is when people create a new name for something and then use that to raise some inordinate amount of money because they know that three letter acronyms get investors excited. That's like the thing that like that's that's why I giggle when I hear MCP because I'm like a lot of people just say that and like the tweets that bother me are like, MCP is coming for your job. Here's why you need to know about MCP.
Starting point is 00:24:39 And it's like, no, it's just like a useful thing, you know. maybe this is relevant to Alex's question. I do take sociological and anthropological stance to tech in terms of like different groups of people coming in have different terminology to communicate with each other and it's just human behavior. It's like I'm kind of non-judgmental about it. Like people just got to do what people do
Starting point is 00:25:02 and they always invent new language and they're only so many ideas going around in the world. They're going to be recycled. Yeah, totally. That's it. I will defend FCP. in a sense that like there actually are other parts of the spec that are not just API wrappers, but people just comparatively don't use them as much.
Starting point is 00:25:20 But I think it's a little unfair to the whole protocol. But that's why we have a debate where we actually have like a podcast booth and we're actually hosting like, you know, pro and con debater. And I think it's really fun. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome.
Starting point is 00:25:33 So I actually really want to get into this because I think we learn more by contrast than by agreement, right? Like so in a single talk like, you know, your ideas. already, you're up there on stage, you say whatever you want to say. And no one can really, like, people are just fighting the comments, but they're never going to rise to the same level. I think in a real debate, you can learn for both sides and make up your mind. And I think that's what we're going to see.
Starting point is 00:25:55 That's awesome. What we're trying for. Yeah, yeah. I love that. Well, it's great to meet you guys. I'm looking forward to your talk among. And Alex, you're, you're opening the show for us. So all power to you.
Starting point is 00:26:06 I do think, like, I personally, I intentionally left that block that you're Armand's in. as the consulting block. We also have McKinsey speaking, but McKinsey is not in the consulting block. So I'm very curious because I think my theory is that a lot of our attendees will be from the enterprises that might be looking to talk to you guys. And I'm curious to see how this sector grows. It's not something I'm personally that familiar with because I mostly just work in
Starting point is 00:26:29 companies as an engineer, but like the sort of consulting digital transformation industry is kind of new, but it's also like very, very in demand, as you guys know very well. And I'm just like excited to feature for the first time. We're super excited to be there and thank you for having us and pumped to learn a ton from you and from the other speakers there and just the people who are attending. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, like everyone from the labs to the Fortune 500s, it'll be a whole party. All right. Thank you. Love it. Thanks, man.

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