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swyx

Also known as Shawn Wang, Shawn "swyx" Wang

Writer and organizer behind Latent Space and the AI Engineer conferences.

Why it matters. For engineers following how AI is changing software work; his essays, podcast and conferences are a common reference point for the AI engineer role.

Full name
Shawn Wang1
Based in
San Francisco (grew up in Singapore)1
Current roles
Co-founder and CEO of AI Engineer; editor of Latent Space2
Founded
Smol AI1
Joined Cognition
Announced 8 Sep 2025; most of the Smol AI team joined with him5
Earlier work
Developer experience at AWS, Netlify, Temporal and Airbyte; before that finance (Two Sigma, currency options, hedge fund analysis)1
Book
The Coding Career Handbook (now open source)1
Communities
Svelte Society, r/reactjs, React TypeScript Cheatsheet1

Writing to start with

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  1. 8 years ago

    Learn In Public (opens swyx.io)

    Essay arguing that sharing what you learn, while you learn it, is the fastest way to learn.

  2. 3 years ago

    The Rise of the AI Engineer (opens latent.space)

    Essay on Latent Space describing the AI engineer as a new role that builds products on foundation models.

  3. 1 year ago

    Cognition: The Devin is in the Details (opens swyx.io)

    His post on joining Cognition and keeping Latent Space and AI Engineer independent of it.

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  1. About - swyx.io (opens swyx.io) read 30 Sep 2026
  2. swyx - AI Engineer speaker page (opens ai.engineer) read 30 Sep 2026
  3. About - AI Engineer (opens ai.engineer) read 30 Sep 2026
  4. The Rise of the AI Engineer (opens latent.space) read 30 Sep 2026
  5. Cognition: The Devin is in the Details (opens swyx.io) read 30 Sep 2026
  6. Learn In Public (opens swyx.io) read 30 Sep 2026

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