Bio
Shawn Wang, known online as swyx, is a co-founder/editor of Latent Space and an organizer and prominent voice in the AI Engineer community.
Sessions (7)
Day 29:00am-9:05amMain Stage
The Highest Loop
Day 410:00am-10:20amMain Stage
How Anthropic Builds: Lessons from Labs
Day 412:30pm-1:30pmExpo Stage 2 NW
Latent Space Live: the Inference Inflection from First Principles
Day 312:30pm-1:30pmMain Stage
SOTA Generative Media Panel
Day 42:25pm-2:45pmExpo Stage 2 NW
Improving AIE: Q&A and Feedback Session
Day 43:20pm-3:40pmExpo Stage 2 NW
Improving AIE: Q&A and Feedback Session (repeat)
Day 45:10pm-5:30pmMain Stage
Startup Battlefield
Additional Speaker Details
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swyx (Shawn Wang) is the creator of the AI Engineer conference series and co-host of the Latent Space podcast — the person who coined the term 'AI Engineer' and has been mapping and narrating the field's evolution in real time. Attending his session means getting a sharp, framework-driven read on where agent engineering is heading from the practitioner who organizes the world's leading AI Engineer events.
Speaking style
Big-pictureStorytellerBattle-testedClear teacher
Recent talks (5)
GitHub
@swyxio- swyxio/ai-notes★ 6,200Notes on AI developments for software engineers; datastore for latent.space writing.
- swyxio/spark-joy★ 9,8002000+ ways to add design flair, user delight, and whimsy to your product.
- swyxio/skills★ 141Reusable agent skills for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and similar agent environments.
- smol-ai/developerorg★ 12,200The first library to let you embed a developer agent in your own app; swyx is founder of smol.ai.
- typescript-cheatsheets/reactorg★ 47,100Cheatsheets for experienced React developers getting started with TypeScript; created by swyx.
Recent writing (6)
- How to Thought Lead (2026) · blog · Mar 2026
- Scaling without Slop · blog · Jan 2026
- It's Time to Science · blog · Jan 2026
- Cognition: The Devin is in the Details · blog · Sep 2025
- The Year in Agents — AI Engineer Paris · blog · Sep 2025
- Agent Engineering · blog · Mar 2025
Podcasts & interviews (3)
- AI & Software Quality with Shawn Wang (aka swyx) · Software Unscripted · May 2026
- The three paths AI could take from here — Shawn Wang SWYX interview [Podcast #208] · The freeCodeCamp Podcast · Feb 2026
- How Shawn (swyx) Wang Defines the AI Engineer · The MonkCast (RedMonk) · Jul 2025