Feeding the machine

Published: (December 15, 2025 at 07:00 AM EST)
1 min read
Source: The Verge

Source: The Verge

Summary

When he was 19 years old, Brendan Foody started Mercor with two of his high school friends as a way for his other friends, who also had startups, to hire software engineers overseas. It launched in 2023 as essentially a staffing agency, albeit a highly automated one. Language models reviewed resumes…

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