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⚡️ 10x AI Engineers with $1m Salaries — Alex Lieberman & Arman Hezarkhani, Tenex

Nov 19, 2025 · 27:11

Tenex co-founders Alex Lieberman and Arman Hezarkhani explain how they compensate AI engineers by story points instead of hours, enabling some to earn over $1 million annually while delivering 10x productivity gains. The model emerged after Arman downsized his previous company Parthian's engineering team by 90% yet saw a 10x increase in production-ready software output by re-architecting with AI. They avoid gaming by hiring engineers who are long-term selfish or love coding, and pair them with technical strategists incentivized on account retention. Example projects include building a retail camera prototype in two weeks and a trivia app that hit #20 on the App Store in a month. Their default stack is TypeScript with React and Express, and they switch between coding agents like Claude Code and Codex based on daily performance. They identify human capital as their main constraint and context engineering or entropy reduction as the core challenge for autonomous AI engineers.

LIVE from GTC: DGX Spark Insides First Look

Mar 20, 2025 · 12:39

Israel from NVIDIA gives a first look at the DGX Spark, a $3,000–$4,000 mini AI supercomputer that fits up to 200B parameter models in FP4 with 128GB unified memory, powered by the NVIDIA GB10 Superchip. It uses the same Grace Blackwell architecture and software stack as data center systems, so code written on the Spark deploys to production without modifications. The device includes a ConnectX-7 dual-port 200Gb ethernet for clustering two units, and runs DGX OS (Ubuntu 24.04). Storage is 1TB or 4TB NVMe. Partners ASUS, HP, Dell, and Lenovo will offer their own cases. Israel stresses the Spark is a developer box, not a server, but delivers enterprise-grade networking and shared memory in a compact form.