Swyx (Shawn Wang)

Swyx (Shawn Wang)

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Shawn "Swyx" Wang is a software developer turned AI communicator, co-host of the Latent Space podcast, who shares insights on how AI is reshaping software development and the tech startup landscape.

Day 1 vs Day 2 Highlights AI Engineering Divide
SocialApr 17, 2026

Day 1 vs Day 2 Highlights AI Engineering Divide

in retrospect putting the slop cannons (@_lopopolo) on @aiDotEngineer talks day 1 and putting the grown ups (@badlogicgames) on talks day 2 is working out pretty well for faithfully representing the most impt split in AI engineering right now https://t.co/ZR2l3aHzEH

By Swyx (Shawn Wang)
Meta's AI Comeback: Hiring Surge, New Model, OS Push
SocialApr 16, 2026

Meta's AI Comeback: Hiring Surge, New Model, OS Push

in the grand narrative of Meta x AI, we saw the flop (Llama 4 hurhurhur), and now we’re seeing the turn: - *more* hiring since the soup wars of 2025 - Zuck literally moved in with Alexandr and Nat and is...

By Swyx (Shawn Wang)
Startups Should Dogfood AI GTM for Growth
SocialApr 14, 2026

Startups Should Dogfood AI GTM for Growth

i think one of the most impt recursive loops in startups is startups that improve marketing/revenue growth (aka GTM) because they can obviously dogfood it for themselves. considering starting a track for this at AIE WF due to its imptnce. https://t.co/NmK26vw68c this...

By Swyx (Shawn Wang)
Three Square Miles Host 80% of Global AI Engineering
SocialApr 13, 2026

Three Square Miles Host 80% of Global AI Engineering

btw ~80% of the world’s agents and ai engineering is done in these 3 square miles https://t.co/dBBQYK0uW3

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Cognition Usage Doubles as Agents Compose Recursively
SocialApr 13, 2026

Cognition Usage Doubles as Agents Compose Recursively

TIL @cognition usage has ~DOUBLED globally since these 2 launches. people are finding all sorts of creative usecases when u can compose agents together and make them proactive. agent recursion is all you need? https://t.co/YGyuc5O1C0

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AI Self‑improves, Generating Full Implementations From Copied Text
SocialApr 3, 2026

AI Self‑improves, Generating Full Implementations From Copied Text

We have achieved agentic self improvement - i can just copy paste blogposts and tweets into @devinai and it oneshots the complete implementation wasnt actually sure this was gonna work, jaw dropped when it did. this is very out of distribution...

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Choosing Hard Challenges Drives Our Greatest Achievements
SocialApr 1, 2026

Choosing Hard Challenges Drives Our Greatest Achievements

"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and...

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Nearly Half of CIOs Embrace AI Startups
SocialMar 30, 2026

Nearly Half of CIOs Embrace AI Startups

redpoint literally just published a ranked list of saas businesses to redo from scratch with ai. you can flip the 54% and the number 46% of enterprise CIOs *open to new ainative startups* over incumbents is a stunning market opportunity....

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Self‑Review Tool Boosts PR Accuracy 3‑8× Daily
SocialMar 24, 2026

Self‑Review Tool Boosts PR Accuracy 3‑8× Daily

seriously @walden_yan cooked, this thing legitimately saves my ass 3-8x a day, and yes it sounds weird that devin can catch devin's own mistakes, but this is basically the equivalent of "sleeping on it" and looking at a PR with...

By Swyx (Shawn Wang)
Devin AI Usage Spikes 50% MoM After Ryan Carson Endorsement
SocialMar 23, 2026

Devin AI Usage Spikes 50% MoM After Ryan Carson Endorsement

Reupping the @devinai explainer now that everyone is suddenly loving kloud koding because @ryancarson said so (btw devin usage has grown >50% MoM every month this year, it has shocked even scott) https://t.co/7hGCELdLhW

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Identity‑Based AI Authorization Beats Binary HITL Dilemma
SocialMar 19, 2026

Identity‑Based AI Authorization Beats Binary HITL Dilemma

btw emerging consensus is that identity-based authz for ai is the most important solution for security, esp if you want to break the binary decision between HITL-everything and —dangerously-skip-permissions keycard is the leading voice in this and now supports all koding...

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Human Potential Lies in Action, Not Just Knowledge
SocialMar 18, 2026

Human Potential Lies in Action, Not Just Knowledge

"Man has a large capacity for effort. In fact it is so much greater than we think it is that few ever reach this capacity. We should value the faculty of knowing what we ought to do and having the...

By Swyx (Shawn Wang)
Simple Formula Links Cloud Power to Devin Growth
SocialMar 16, 2026

Simple Formula Links Cloud Power to Devin Growth

btw the @cognition growth formula is very simple: Devin growth = cloud komputer * koding agents growth math it out. working on releasing some numbers soon

By Swyx (Shawn Wang)
Qwen, the S‑Tier Tiger, Has Finally Disappeared
SocialMar 15, 2026

Qwen, the S‑Tier Tiger, Has Finally Disappeared

i am actually still not over how Qwen as we knew it, one of the S tier Tigers, is over. https://t.co/Vj617GBDwv

By Swyx (Shawn Wang)