The AI Engineer newsletter + Top 10 US Tech podcast. Exploring AI UX, Agents, Devtools, Infra, Open Source Models. See https://latent.space/about for highlights from Chris Lattner, Andrej Karpathy, George Hotz, Simon Willison, Emad Mostaque, et al!
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swyx's personal picks pod. Weekdays: the best audio clips from podcasts I listen to, in 10 minutes or less! Fridays: Music picks! Weekends: long form talks and conversations! This is a passion project; never any ads, 100% just recs from me to people who like the stuff I like. Share and give feedback: tag @swyx on Twitter or email audio questions to swyx @ swyx.io
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Short, focused chats about developer careers. 1 topic each, selected from the best of our writing and thinking.
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The podcast for people who build developer communities.
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[Plan B] swyx on nontechnical Singapore podcast
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Today, Meta is officially releasing the largest and most capable open model to date, Llama3-405B, a dense transformer trained on 15T tokens that beats GPT-4 on all major benchmarks: The 8B and 70B models from the April Llama 3 release have also received serious spec bumps, warranting the new label of Llama 3.1. If you are curious about the infra / …
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The first AI Engineer World’s Fair talks from OpenAI and Cognition are up! In our Benchmarks 101 episode back in April 2023 we covered the history of AI benchmarks, their shortcomings, and our hopes for better ones. Fast forward 1.5 years, the pace of model development has far exceeded the speed at which benchmarks are updated. Frontier labs are st…
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Livestreams for the AI Engineer World’s Fair (Multimodality ft. the new GPT-4o demo, GPUs and Inference (ft. Cognition/Devin), CodeGen, Open Models tracks) are now live! Subscribe to @aidotEngineer to get notifications of the other workshops and tracks! It’s easy to get de-sensitized to new models topping leaderboards every other week — however, th…
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[High Agency] AI Engineer World's Fair Preview
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High Agency Pod Description In this episode, I chatted with Shawn Wang about his upcoming AI engineering conference and what an AI engineer really is. It's been a year since he penned the viral essay "Rise of the AI Engineer' and we discuss if this new role will be enduring, the make up of the optimal AI team and trends in machine learning. Timesta…
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It’s return guest season here at Latent Space! We last talked to Kanjun in October and Jonathan in May (and December post Databricks acquisition): Imbue and Databricks are back for a rare treat: a double-header interview talking about DBRX from Databricks and Imbue 70B, a new internal LLM that “outperforms GPT-4o” zero-shot on a range of reasoning …
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The World’s Fair is officially sold out! Thanks for all the support and stay tuned for recaps of all the great goings on in this very special celebration of the AI Engineer! Longtime listeners will remember the fan favorite Raza Habib, CEO of HumanLoop, on the pod: Well, he’s caught the podcasting bug and is now flipping the tables on swyx! Subscri…
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Editor’s note: One of the top reasons we have hundreds of companies and thousands of AI Engineers joining the World’s Fair next week is, apart from discussing technology and being present for the big launches planned, to hire and be hired! Listeners loved our previous Elicit episode and were so glad to welcome 2 more members of Elicit back for a gu…
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In April 2023 we released an episode named “Mapping the future of *truly* open source models” to talk about Dolly, the first open, commercial LLM. Mike was leading the OSS models team at Databricks at the time. Today, Mike is back on the podcast to give us the “one year later” update on the evolution of large language models and how he’s been using…
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ICLR 2024 — Best Papers & Talks (Benchmarks, Reasoning & Agents) — ft. Graham Neubig, Aman Sanger, Moritz Hardt)
Our second wave of speakers for AI Engineer World’s Fair were announced! The conference sold out of Platinum/Gold/Silver sponsors and Early Bird tickets! See our Microsoft episode for more info and buy now with code LATENTSPACE. This episode is straightforwardly a part 2 to our ICLR 2024 Part 1 episode, so without further ado, we’ll just get right …
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<150 Early Bird tickets left for the AI Engineer World’s Fair in SF! Prices go up soon. Note that there are 4 tracks per day and dozens of workshops/expo sessions; the livestream will air <30% of the content this time. Basically you should really come if you dont want to miss out on the most stacked speaker list/AI expo floor of 2024. Apply for fre…
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ICLR 2024 — Best Papers & Talks (ImageGen, Vision, Transformers, State Space Models) ft. Durk Kingma, Christian Szegedy, Ilya Sutskever
Speakers for AI Engineer World’s Fair have been announced! See our Microsoft episode for more info and buy now with code LATENTSPACE1 — we’ve been studying the best ML research conferences so we can make the best AI industry conf! Note that this year there are 4 main tracks per day and dozens of workshops/expo sessions; the free livestream will air…
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Last call for AI Engineer World’s Fair early bird tix! See our Microsoft episode for more. Disclaimer: today’s episode touches on NSFW topics. There’s no graphic content or explicit language, but we wouldn’t recommend blasting this in work environments. For over 20 years it’s been an open secret that porn drives many new consumer technology innovat…
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WebSim, WorldSim, and The Summer of Simulative AI — with Joscha Bach of Liquid AI, Karan Malhotra of Nous Research, Rob Haisfield of WebSim.ai
We are 200 people over our 300-person venue capacity for AI UX 2024, but you can subscribe to our YouTube for the video recaps. Our next event, and largest EVER, is the AI Engineer World’s Fair. See you there! Parental advisory: Adult language used in the first 10 mins of this podcast. Any accounting of Generative AI that ends with RAG as its “fina…
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Jeff Lawson just bought The Onion. This is one of my favorite episodes of their NPR podcast parody of Serial. https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/a-very-fatal-murder/episode-5-part-1-did-my-tJbSp9yP2wU/By Swyx
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We are reuniting for the 2nd AI UX demo day in SF on Apr 28. Sign up to demo here! And don’t forget tickets for the AI Engineer World’s Fair — for early birds who join before keynote announcements! About a year ago there was a lot of buzz around prompt engineering techniques to force structured output. Our friend Simon Willison tweeted a bunch of t…
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AI Engineering, Devin, and the Future of Software - swyx on Modern Web Podcast
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Maggie, Linus, Geoffrey, and the LS crew are reuniting for our second annual AI UX demo day in SF on Apr 28. Sign up to demo here! And don’t forget tickets for the AI Engineer World’s Fair — for early birds who join before keynote announcements! It’s become fashionable for many AI startups to project themselves as “the next Google” - while the sear…
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Latent Space Chats: NLW (Four Wars, GPT5), Josh Albrecht/Ali Rohde (TNAI), Dylan Patel/Semianalysis (Groq), Milind Naphade (Nvidia GTC), Personal AI (ft. Harrison Chase — LangFriend/LangMem)
Our next 2 big events are AI UX and the World’s Fair. Join and apply to speak/sponsor! Due to timing issues we didn’t have an interview episode to share with you this week, but not to worry, we have more than enough “weekend special” content in the backlog for you to get your Latent Space fix, whether you like thinking about the big picture, or lea…
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TL;DR: You can now buy tickets, apply to speak, or join the expo for the biggest AI Engineer event of 2024. We’re gathering *everyone* you want to meet - see you this June. In last year’s the Rise of the AI Engineer we put our money where our mouth was and announced the AI Engineer Summit, which fortunately went well: You can also read Eugene Yan a…
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Why Google failed to make GPT-3 + why Multimodal Agents are the path to AGI — with David Luan of Adept
Our next SF event is AI UX 2024 - let’s see the new frontier for UX since last year! Last call: we are recording a preview of the AI Engineer World’s Fair with swyx and Ben Dunphy, send any questions about Speaker CFPs and Sponsor Guides you have! Alessio is now hiring engineers for a new startup he is incubating at Decibel: Ideal candidate is an “…
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We will be recording a preview of the AI Engineer World’s Fair soon with swyx and Ben Dunphy, send any questions about Speaker CFPs and Sponsor Guides you have! Alessio is now hiring engineers for a new startup he is incubating at Decibel: Ideal candidate is an ex-technical co-founder type (can MVP products end to end, comfortable with ambiguous pr…
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I made a new friend, Serena (sister of Malindi!) who was so impressive and thoughtful in the short time I have known her (cooking, language learning, finance/science management) that I asked her to write down her philosophy of Intentionality. [00:02:05] Elements of Intentionality - Taste and Standards [00:05:17] Elements of Intentionality - Intenti…
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"Navigating AI and Software 3.0: A Tech Career Guide for Developers": a more beginner oriented podcast interview for a new Youtuber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5qfKKct6dc here are the recommended resources for others who listened latent space university: https://www.latent.space/p/lsu-beta AI engineering 101+201 https://www.latent.space/p/aie…
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[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Real World Serverless
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years after following him for his serverless content, i was glad to be on Yan Cui's pod to talk Rise of AI Engineer. https://realworldserverless.com/episode/92iBy Swyx
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An essay I think about often, and recommend to people, that I need to internalize more. https://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/By Swyx
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https://podrocket.logrocket.com/software-3-and-the-ai-engineerBy Swyx
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[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Cognitive Revolution
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this is a longer form conversation with an AI insider so we do get pretty in depth. sorry for the poor audio quality on my side https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/ai-engineers-pendants-and-tensions-between-openai-and-developers-with-swyx-of-latent-space/By Swyx
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[Music Friday] Shouldn't I Be Less In Love With You - Oliver Tompsett
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[AI] AGI discussion - Lex Fridman interviews John Carmack
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[AI] Making state management intelligent - Reactathon 2023, David Khourshid
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[AI] Why Chatbots are Not the Future - Amelia Wattenberger
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[AI] Hacker News Recap clip - wondercraft.ai
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I met up to podcast with quincy in round 2, which has all my personal updates since round 1. https://freecodecamp.libsyn.com/90-shawn-swyx-wang-from-dev-to-ai-founderBy Swyx
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[Weekend Drop] The Rise of the AI Engineer
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One of my biggest posts ever was https://www.latent.space/p/ai-engineer and we hosted a Twitter Space about it: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1674895620870651909?s=20 I felt like the space wasn't info dense enough for the main Latent Space pod but you get the full show as loyal swyx mixtape subscribers.…
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[Weekend Drop] swyx on Productivity and leverage
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Video and pull quotes: https://www.humanskills.co/p/human-skills-012-productivity-andBy Swyx
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smol developer took off this week. we convened a special twitter space to talk about what we should do next.By Swyx
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[Business] Why and How you should Open Source your code - David Cramer
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david cramer speaks on why he believes in open source businesses, and why specifically you should use BSL and not the other stuff. https://www.se-radio.net/2023/05/se-radio-563-david-cramer-on-error-tracking/ 1hr inBy Swyx
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[Weekend Drop] No Code Jamstack (in 2019) - swyx on Software Engineering Daily
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revived by https://www.swyx.io/how-to-find-podcasts-that-have-been-deleted https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/12/19/no-code-with-shawn-wang/ The software category known as “no-code” describes a set of tools that can be used to build software without writing large amounts of code in a programming language. No-code tools use visual interfaces …
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[Business] Community Games: from MUDs to MMORPGs - Gamecraft
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[Business] Mobile Games: from iOS to Facebook/Zynga/Farmville to King/Candy Crush
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[Business] Casual Games: from Deer Hunter to Snake - Gamecraft
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from the start https://overcast.fm/+-qMx_5OqoBy Swyx
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[Business] App Stores: Valve and the rise of Steam - Gamecraft
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30 mins in to https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/gamecraft/the-fall-and-rise-of-KIbFrC70q93/By Swyx
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[Business] Free2Play: From Piracy to League of Legends - Gamecraft
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[Weekend Drop] The State of JavaScript (in 2017) - swyx and Sacha Greif
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[AI] Timnit Gebru, Margaret Mitchell and the Stochastic Parrots paper - Emily Bender
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from https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/gradient-dissent/emily-m-bender-language-aVzCO4T2gGs/ further reading https://www.theverge.com/22309962/timnit-gebru-google-harassment-campaign-jeff-dean https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f2kYWDXwhzYnq8ebVtuk9CqQqz7ScqxhSIxeYGrWjK0/editBy Swyx
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[AI] Small Language Models and Training PubMedGPT - Naveen Rao
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[AI] The origin of EleutherAI - Connor Leahy
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From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz4G9zrlAGsBy Swyx
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