Shawn Wang (aka swyx) is the founder of
smol.ai (AI news curation), and the cohost of
Latent Space (popular AI Engineer podcast).
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 SummitAnd 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:
Episode 103
