TypeScript

Senior Dev: This "Grill Me" Prompt Is Going Viral Among Top Engineers

May 7, 2026 · 22:03

Matt Pocock — the TypeScript educator turned AI engineering teacher who created the viral "Grill Me" prompt and runs AI Hero — argues that classic software engineering fundamentals are more critical than ever in the AI coding era. He explains how Domain-Driven Design's ubiquitous language and deep module patterns let developers contain complexity and delegate implementation to AI. His free "Grill Me" skill (part of his 13,000-star skills repo) forces AI to relentlessly interview humans until reaching shared understanding. He contrasts Claude Code's ease-of-use against Pie's transparent primitives, predicting a shift toward developer observability. The episode also covers his two-month course creation process, why TypeScript is overtaking Python in AI engineering, and why traditional lectures still dominate learning.

⚡️ 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.