The Swyx Mixtape

https://podcast.scalingdevtools.com/episodes/swyx-2

Plus, Shawn started the AI Engineer movement with his essay Rise of the AI Engineer and organized two incredible AI engineer conferences in the past twelve months - AI Engineer World's Fair and AI Engineer Summit

And Shawn has angel invested in DevTools like Airbyte, Railway, Supabase, Replay.io, Stackblitz, Flutterflow, Fireworks.ai while running the DevTools angels community.

Besides this, Shawn curates DX.tips (DevTools magazine) and in a past life wrote the Coding Career handbook, championed learn in public, cofounded Svelte Society and was previously Head of Developer Experience at Temporal, and a Developer Advocate at AWS and Netlify.

Also, before this, Shawn had a very successful career in investment banking, trading, building data pipelines and performing quantitate portfolio management. I think this brings him a very unique perspective - I've always admired his ability to zoom out and see the big picture and the trends.

Even though Shawn is now all-in on AI, he's still one of the go-to authorities on DevTools go-to-market.

As you can tell, Shawn is someone I deeply admire. So I'm glad he came back.

What we discuss:

• Organizing the AI Engineer Conferences
• Rise of the AI Engineer
• Intentionality and principles (yes we even talk about Alcoholics Anonymous)
• The AI CEO
• Invisible deadlines
• Ilya believing in AGI more than most people at OpenAI
• Are developers going to be obsolete? 
• Thor convinced swyx to invest in Supabase
• Building DevTools that work well with LLMs
• Angel investing in DevTools - why and how
• Is DevRel dead?
• How to hire DevRel
• Why DX.tips exists

Links:

• Rise of the AI Engineer https://www.latent.space/p/ai-engineer
• Latent Space Podcast https://www.latent.space/
• swyx's Twitter https://x.com/swyx
• swyx's website https://www.swyx.io/
• swyx's LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnswyxwang/
• smol.ai https://smol.ai/
• DevTools Angels https://github.com/sw-yx/devtools-angels
• DX.tips https://dx.tips/
• DevRel's Death as Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon https://dx.tips/zirp 
• AI Engineer Summit https://www.ai.engineer/summit/2023
• AI Engineer World's Fair https://www.ai.engineer/worldsfair
• Coding Career Handbook https://www.learninpublic.org/
• Shawn's previous appearance on Scaling DevTools https://podcast.scalingdevtools.com/episodes/swyx 
• Eisenhower Matrix https://asana.com/resources/eisenhower-matrix
• Thor from Supabase https://x.com/thorwebdev
• Solaris AI coworking space in SF https://www.solarissf.com/
• Browserbase https://www.browserbase.com/
• Indent https://indent.com/ and Fouad https://x.com/fouadmatin
• How to do hackathons https://dx.tips/hackathons
• How to do conferences https://dx.tips/conf-guide
• How to hire DevRel https://dx.tips/mailbox-first-devrel-hiring
• Climbing the ladder of abstraction with Amelia Wattenberger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAy_GHUAICw...for the job. And they should not be doing that job and they should try something else to do. People pay for it because they need the job title to be filled more than they need that person. Those good people are very hard to reach.

  That's one thing there. I also mentioned some other things that I've found in the different roles in the category: 

  Bottoms-up and open source have been very challenging in the growing a company success criteria. That's what different roles focus on: bottoms-up and open source, and particularly open source. You don't have to be open source. 

https://sites.libsyn.com/493303/building-ai-in-2024-is-not-what-you-think-with-swyx

In episode 18 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers sits down with Shawn "swyx" Wang to delve into AI Engineering. Shawn shares his journey from popularizing the term "AI Engineer" to navigating the rapid advancements in AI technology. Together, they explore the evolving demands and opportunities in AI, offering unparalleled insights into the future of this transformative field.

https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/generationship/ep-18-intelligence-on-tap-with-shawn-swyx-wang?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=heavybit&utm_content=Ep.%20%2318,%20Intelligence%20on%20Tap%20with%20Shawn%20%22swyx%22%20Wang

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/plan-b-news-beat-ZoCrxdekY79/

https://open.spotify.com/episode/45dTtNCiIxqySG1lU5addY?si=SeMrk4FBR_yGc4NtG8Ll5Q

High Agency Pod Description

In this episode, I chatted with Shawn Wang about his upcoming AI engineering conference and what an AI engineer really is. It's been a year since he penned the viral essay "Rise of the AI Engineer' and we discuss if this new role will be enduring, the make up of the optimal AI team and trends in machine learning.

Timestamps

00:00 - Introduction and background on Shawn Wang (Swyx)
03:45 - Reflecting on the "Rise of the AI Engineer" essay
07:30 - Skills and characteristics of AI Engineers
12:15 - Team composition for AI products
16:30 - Vertical vs. horizontal AI startups
23:00 - Advice for AI product creators and leaders
28:15 - Tools and buying vs. building for AI products
33:30 - Key trends in AI research and development
41:00 - Closing thoughts and information on the AI Engineer World Fair Summit

Jeff Lawson just bought The Onion.

This is one of my favorite episodes of their NPR podcast parody of Serial.

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/a-very-fatal-murder/episode-5-part-1-did-my-tJbSp9yP2wU/

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/modern-web/modern-web-podcast-s12e03-rl_OLdGJHS8/

I made a new friend, Serena (sister of Malindi!) who was so impressive and thoughtful in the short time I have known her (cooking, language learning, finance/science management) that I asked her to write down her philosophy of Intentionality.

• [00:02:05] Elements of Intentionality - Taste and Standards
• [00:05:17] Elements of Intentionality - Intentionality is All or Nothing
• [00:06:50] Serena's path to Intentionality
• [00:10:24] Elements of Intentionality - Fantasy
• [00:10:55] Elements of Intentionality - Tenacity & Resilience
• [00:14:13] Where to be Intentional - Relationships
• [00:17:48] Where to be Intentional - Art
• [00:19:50] Where to be Intentional - Work
• [00:24:30] Elements of Intentionality - Stubbornness
• [00:26:03] Journaling?
• [00:28:28] Listing Intentions?
• [00:30:52] Applying Intentionality - on a medium priority
• [00:37:32] Dropping Intentions
• [00:42:18] Serena asks: Why do you want to live your life with intentionality? 
• [00:43:21] Serena asks: What is Intentionality for you?
• [00:47:06] Serena asks: What has kept you from Intentionality?
• [00:50:52] Intetionality is Lonely 
• [00:52:38] PSA: Serena's eggs are amazing
• [00:53:08] Back to Health
• [00:57:24] Intentionality Inspirations - Ramit Sethi and Ira Glass
• [01:03:02] I should write more
• [01:06:45] Closing - Intentionality and Fulfilment

"Navigating AI and Software 3.0: A Tech Career Guide for Developers": a more beginner oriented podcast interview for a new Youtuber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5qfKKct6dc

1. here are the recommended resources for others who listened 
   • latent space university: https://www.latent.space/p/lsu-beta
   • AI engineering 101+201 https://www.latent.space/p/aie-2023-workshops
   • Andrej Karpathy's software 2.0: https://karpathy.medium.com/software-2-0-a64152b37c35
   • Voyager paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16291
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January 10, 2024

years after following him for his serverless content, i was glad to be on Yan Cui's pod to talk Rise of AI Engineer.

https://realworldserverless.com/episode/92i