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The Swyx Mixtape

swyx's personal picks pod. Weekdays: the best audio clips from podcasts I listen to, in 10 minutes or less! Fridays: Music picks! Weekends: long form talks and conversations! This is a passion project; never any ads, 100% just recs from me to people who like the stuff I like. Share and give feedback: tag @swyx on Twitter or email audio questions to swyx @ swyx.io
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[Chit Chat Stocks] swyx on the AI majors

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/chit-chat-stocks/the-future-of-artificial-3ylaqngtMR7/ [00:00:00] intro: Welcome to Chitchat Stocks on this show host Ryan Henderson and Brett Schaefer analyze businesses and riff on the world of investing. As a quick reminder, Chitchat Stocks is a CCM media group podcast. Anything discussed on Chitchat Stocks by Ryan, Brett, or any other podcast guest is not formal advice or recommendation. intro: Now, please enjoy this episode. Brett: Welcome in. We have an...

Dec 19, 20241 hr 4 minEp. 542

Intentionality, AI Eng, Devtools Angels, and DevRel - on Scaling DevTools

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 i...

Oct 10, 20241 hr 16 minEp. 541

[Generation Ship] AI Engineering for nontechnical people

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=cosc...

Aug 22, 202437 minEp. 539

[High Agency] AI Engineer World's Fair Preview

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 characteri...

Jul 02, 202450 minEp. 537

The Onion's A Very Fatal Murder

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/

Apr 26, 202410 minEp. 536

Serena Colyer - Intentionality

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 Intention...

Feb 29, 20241 hr 8 minEp. 534

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on CodeRyan podcast

" 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 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...

Jan 13, 202431 minEp. 533

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Real World Serverless

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

Jan 06, 202453 minEp. 532

Solitude and Leadership

An essay I think about often, and recommend to people, that I need to internalize more. https://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/

Dec 01, 202336 minEp. 531

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Cognitive Revolution

this is a longer form conversation with an AI insider so we do get pretty in depth. sorry for the poor audio quality on my side https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/ai-engineers-pendants-and-tensions-between-openai-and-developers-with-swyx-of-latent-space/

Sep 30, 20231 hr 33 minEp. 530

Freecodecamp podcast #2

I met up to podcast with quincy in round 2, which has all my personal updates since round 1 . https://freecodecamp.libsyn.com/90-shawn-swyx-wang-from-dev-to-ai-founder

Jul 31, 20232 hr 5 minEp. 526

[Weekend Drop] The Rise of the AI Engineer

One of my biggest posts ever was https://www.latent.space/p/ai-engineer and we hosted a Twitter Space about it: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1674895620870651909?s=20 I felt like the space wasn't info dense enough for the main Latent Space pod but you get the full show as loyal swyx mixtape subscribers.

Jul 02, 20231 hr 53 minEp. 525

[Weekend Drop] No Code Jamstack (in 2019) - swyx on Software Engineering Daily

revived by https://www.swyx.io/how-to-find-podcasts-that-have-been-deleted https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/12/19/no-code-with-shawn-wang/ The software category known as “no-code” describes a set of tools that can be used to build software without writing large amounts of code in a programming language. No-code tools use visual interfaces such as spreadsheets and web based drag-and-drop systems. In previous shows, we have covered some of the prominent no-code products such as Airtable ,...

Feb 04, 20231 hr 8 minEp. 473
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