Conversations with Tyler
Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work
Jan 07, 2026
· 1h 1m
<p class="font-claude-response-body">At 22, Brendan Foody is both the youngest Conversations with Tyler guest ever and the youngest unicorn founder on record. His company Mercor hires the experts who train frontier AI models—from poets grading verse to economists building evaluation frameworks—and has become one of the fastest-growing startups in history.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Tyler and Brendan discuss why Mercor pays poets $150 an hour, why AI labs need rubrics more than raw text, whether we should enshrine the aesthetic standards of past eras …
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