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• AI Engineers, Pendants, and Tensions with OpenAI on Cognitive Revolutionpodcast · 2023

  Chatted with Nathan Labenz, who's work on CogRev I really admire, on the AI Eng thesis and conference!

• Software 3.0 and the AI Engineer on PodRocketpodcast · 2023

  Went back on Podrocket to talk about AI Eng - with Tejas, who I fortunately hung out with at Infobip Shift in Croatia just a few weeks prior. This convo was really well done and…

• Software 3.0 and the AI Engineer Landscape (talk notes & slides)article · 2023

  I presented an updated version of this talk at CascadiaJS 2024! slides here, video pending.

• Software 3.0 and the AI Engineer Landscapetalk · 2023

  The talk form of my AI Eng blogpost, debuting a new chart of how I see the AI Eng landscape at a high level. Keynote at Infobip Shift 2023 pending.

• Swyx's Simple Guide to Singaporearticle · 2023

  A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.

• On Grind - from Investor to Creator to Founderarticle · 2023

  Sarah asks a provoking question that has been on my mind a lot as I transition from part time creator to founder:

• 250k downloads of Latent Space Podarticle · 2023

  I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded developer-part-time-creator, the Latent Space Newsletter + Pod has done much…

• How to allow popups in dynamically created webviews in Electron.jsarticle · 2023

  My smol menubar project utilizes Electron's special webview tag to dynamically generate a list of sub browser windows for chat. For the last couple months I've had an issue with…

• Chatting AI on Shoptalk Showpodcast · 2023

  Rejoined Chris and Dave to reintroduce AI Engineering to the broader frontend world, and demystify things for beginners! Audio starts bad but improves halfway once we discovered…

• swyx and Alessio on AI Breakdownpodcast · 2023

  The hosts of AI Breakdown and Latent Space get together to discuss GPT4.5, Llama 2, AI Agents, AI Companions, and the Rise of the AI Engineer!

• How to Blow Up a Category - Netlify's New Era and The JAMstack Endgamearticle · 2023

  note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish this essay up to my usual standards, but still wanted to capture this…

• From Dev to AI Founder with Quincy Larson of FreeCodeCamppodcast · 2023

  I caught up with Quincy again after many years from our first pod!

• How to deal with fatal: bad object HEAD in gitarticle · 2023

  as a cheapo who uses Apple iCloud (the world's worst sync service) as a sync service for my Obsidian Second Brain, I have recently run into this issue a lot:

• [Newbie Tip] What to do when you 403 during pypi twine uploadarticle · 2023

  I'm pretty new to the pypi packaging ecosystem so recently ran into some trouble pushing a python package:

• Using Whisper to Transcribe Podcastsarticle · 2023

  these are onetime setup things

• The Traction vs Trust Equation of Cofounder Datingarticle · 2023

  One of the most common problems in the beginning stage of a founder journey is establishing the cofounder group. I thought I would jot down some notes from my own experience +…

• Sourcegraph Cody + Exploring smol developer ft. swyx & Beyang Liupodcast · 2023

  We ask our AI coding assistant, Cody, to give us a tour of smol developer, a new tool for generating scaffolding for new code projects.

• Chains vs Agents - Langchain Webinartalk · 2023

  I joined Harrison for the Langchain webinar showing my current state of thinking on agents. Video is not up yet but I am posting it here in case I forget.

• Deno and the Future of Dev Tools with Ryan Dahlpodcast · 2023

  I was honored to be invited on to Deno's YouTube as part of their Deno KV Hackathon, to riff on KV and other storage solutions with Ryan Dahl.

• Searching for The Early Founder Cadencearticle · 2023

  I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running…