Everyone's Cheating: Hiring in the Age of Agents (A Boba Debate)
AI agents have stopped being tools we use. They're starting to do the work: writing code, running outbound, sourcing candidates, closing tickets.
And hiring is where it gets messy first. Candidates use AI to write the resume, apply to 500 jobs, and whisper answers in the live interview. Companies use AI to screen, score, and reject them. More than a third of candidates in AI interviews now get flagged for cheating. It's bots interviewing bots, and nobody trusts the result.
So the interesting question isn't whether AI replaces jobs. It's what hiring looks like when a real share of the team isn't human, and every candidate has an agent in their ear. Join AI founders, operators, investors, and talent leaders for an honest, no-slides conversation.
There's a live anonymous poll, spicy takes, boba and cupcakes you can't miss. 🧋
Who Should Come
Founders and builders shipping AI agents that do real work
Enterprise and startup leaders running teams of humans and agents
Anyone rethinking how to hire when every candidate uses AI
Investors backing the agent economy
What We'll Get Into
Cheating or just the job now?
Bots vs. bots: Candidates' AI against recruiters' AI. Who's winning?
How roles change: When agents do the junior work, what do you hire humans for, and how do you organize a team of humans and agents?
What's still missing: The infrastructure teams need to trust, manage, and learn from agents.
Live confession poll: Have you used AI in an interview? Hired someone who did? Answers are anonymous and results go up live.
Panel Speakers
Moderated by Cathy Chang, Hellyeah AI
Ning Hu, CEO and Cofounder, ZooWork AI
Jerry Wang, CTO & Cofounder, Metix AI
Austin Cai, Chief Growth Officer & Cofounder, XTrace
Danni Chen, Senior Growth Executive, Founder at Stealth
Boba, Bites & Drinks
We're bringing in boba, fruit tea, yogurt, free all afternoon, plus bites and cupcakes. Come for the hot takes, stay for the boba everyone lines up for.
Run of Show
4:00 Doors open, grab your boba
4:30 Live poll and panel
5:15 Audience Q&A
5:30 Networking (and more boba)
6:00 Wrap
About the Hosts
Metix AI is building the people layer for the emerging agent economy. We deliver interview-ready candidates in days, not weeks.
Hellyeah AI (hellyeahai.com)
Hellyeah runs and improves your paid ads. Senior growth experts handle strategy, campaigns, creative testing and measurement, with AI to move faster and scale what works.
XTrace turns your company's context and the lessons from people and AI agents into shared intelligence. We make your business smarter with every AI interaction.
Flatkey is a unified AI API gateway that puts 100+ official models and 1,000+ tools behind one key, one balance, and one dashboard.
ZooWork turns your team's expertise into production-ready AI agents that run your playbooks and get better with every task.
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