Last DevRel standing (Changelog & Friends #52)

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Shawn “swyx” Wang is back to talk with us about the state of DevRel according to ZIRP (the Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon), the data that backs up the rise and fall of job openings, whether or not DevRel dead or dying, speculation of the near-term arrival of AGI, AI Engineering as the last job standing, the innovation from Cognition with Devin as well as their mis-steps during Devin’s launch, and what’s to come in the next innovation round of AI.

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Featuring:

• Shawn Wang – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• DevRel’s Death as Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon
• Measuring Developer Relations
• pandas
• Jasper AI
• Writer.com
• harvey.ai
• Cognition.ai
• Anthropic
• Changelog Interviews #594: Microsoft is all-in on AI: Part 2 (with Mark Russinovich, Eric Boyd & Neha Batra)
• The Rise of the AI Engineer
• AI News
• von Neumann probes (Self-replicating spacecraft)

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapters

1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sentry (00:00:38)

https://sentry.io/

3. ZIRP and Friends (00:04:17)

4. Where in the world? (00:05:02)

5. Zero interest-rate phenomenon (ZIRP) (00:07:23)

6. Good vs bad DevRel (00:11:58)

7. Sponsor: 1Password (00:18:03)

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8. What exactly is DevRel? (00:20:40)

9. Just publish hits (00:30:46)

10. DevRel folded into Product? (00:38:49)

11. Just tell/show people the story (00:44:30)

12. Data Science ~> AI Engineering? (00:48:24)

13. Attributes of an AI Engineer? (00:50:15)

14. Success besides Midjourney? (00:53:21)

15. Sponsor: Paragon (00:58:53)

https://www.useparagon.com/changelog

16. Share more about Cognition/Devin (01:02:32)

17. Is AI alive? (01:12:28)

18. PULL THE PLUG?!! (01:17:33)

19. If West World is even close... (01:21:33)

20. We're done. (01:29:39)

21. Outro time (01:30:13)

22. ++ Teaser (01:31:44)