CEOInterviews.AI
Start App
Try: AI strategy tariffs earnings guidance layoffs interest rates growth

Shawn Wang

Founder & Editor, Latent Space; co-founder, AI Engineer, Latent Space

Search every verified Shawn Wang interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Shawn Wang, also known as Swyx, recently appeared on two podcasts discussing the state of AI agents and products. On the October 2026 episode of High Taste Testers, he discussed OpenAI's DevDay updates and expressed that some changes felt like regressions, citing performance issues and a less effective interface in the Codex desktop app. He also described his workflow of running AI models overnight to generate code, noting that this approach can produce more code than a developer can reliably review, and suggested using existing labels as an evaluation method to focus review only on areas where the model disagrees. In an August 2026 episode of Navigators, Wang discussed why a large portion of the economy has not yet adopted AI agents. He attributed the gap not to model capabilities but to downstream factors such as cost, reliability, and hardware shortages, including memory supply constraints. He also commented on the traits of successful vertical AI startups, emphasizing customer obsession and the role of startups as outsourced AI teams for enterprises like hospitals.

Recent appearances

  • High Taste Testers: OpenAI Shipped Everything. What Actually Works?

    October 16, 2026 · 📺 Latent Space

    Six AI power users compare what actually works—and what falls apart once you start using it. Ben Davis, Ben Hylak, Dex Horthy, Allison Durham, Alex Volkov, and swyx discuss OpenAI DevDay, coding agents, personal assistants, model preferences, and the gap between impressive AI capabilities and useful products. From Pi-powered personal agents and decision models to subagents, context management, prompt injection, and assistants that can spend money: what deserves a place in your daily workflow? CHAPTERS 00:00 High Taste Testers 01:26 OpenAI DevDay: Dots, Spaces, and product execution 10:28 Gr…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • Latent Space's Swyx on why 80% of GDP isn't automated yet

    August 28, 2026 · 📺 Browserbase

    Shawn Wang, aka Swyx, has spent the last several years narrating the AI boom through his podcast Latent Space and the AI Engineer conference. In this episode of Navigators, Paul sits down with him to talk about how far agents have actually come, and why most of the economy hasn't caught up yet. Swyx points to OpenAI's own research showing that roughly 80% of US GDP could be automated by agents today. The holdup isn't the models, he argues, it's everything downstream: cost, reliability, and a hardware shortage severe enough that people are scavenging memory out of old MacBooks to keep up with…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • Why You Should Build $100,000 Agents Today | Shawn "swyx" Wang | Agents and Money

    July 03, 2026 · 📺 Chargebee Developers

    "The best token billionaires today will be dollar billionaires tomorrow." Swyx (Shawn Wang) hosts the Latent Space podcast, runs the AI Engineer Summit, and works inside Cognition — giving him a view of agent economics that very few people have from the outside. In this talk, he makes the case for thinking bigger about what you spend on agents. He covers: 1. What $100,000 of compute actually gets you today across the frontier models 2. Why the "dark factory" model of fully autonomous, human-free code shipping is the direction serious teams are heading 3. How a $1M contract renewed at 17x in…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • AI & Software Quality with Shawn Wang (aka swyx)

    May 08, 2026 · 📺 Software Unscripted Podcast

    Richard talks with AI expert Shawn "swyx" Wang about all sorts of AI topics, including how it fits into IDEs, AI agent implementations, the economics of AI subscriptions, the future of AI in software, and how all of this affects software quality. This episode was sponsored by mailtrap.io - modern email delivery for developers. Try Mailtrap for free: https://l.rw.rw/software_unscripted_3 Patreon supporters get ad-free episodes!   / softwareunscripted   Shawn's Latent Space Podcast - https://www.latent.space/podcast AI Engineer Conference Series - https://www.ai.engineer/ RAG - https://en.wik…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • AI investor + engineer discuss the current state of AI

    April 23, 2026 · 📺 Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron and Latent Space

    This episode is a wide-ranging conversation between Jacob and Swyx (Shawn Wang), an AI engineer, podcaster, and now operator at Cognition, who sits at a uniquely informed intersection of builder, investor, and community organizer in the AI world. The two cover the current state of the AI engineering zeitgeist: from the stabilization of agent infrastructure and the surprising stickiness of Claude Code, to the competitive dynamics of the AI coding wars, the rise of open models, the threat to traditional SaaS, and the frontier questions around world models, memory, and what it actually means for…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • The three paths AI could take from here - Shawn Wang SWYX interview [Podcast #208]

    February 20, 2026 · 📺 freeCodeCamp.org

    Today Quincy Larson interviews Shawn Wang. He's a software engineer, founder of the AI Engineer conference, and host of the Latent Space podcast focused on applying the latest models toward getting work done. We talk about: How even if LLMs plateau, there will be still paths to better output through surrounding harness code And big areas researchers are exploring to further improve model performance: World Models, Multi-modality, and models that learn Which skills Shawn thinks are most important for developers going forward And why Shawn thinks you should switch your own self teaching from "j…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • Vibe Coding Costs You 20% Productivity | Shawn Swyx Wang

    December 10, 2025 · 📺 React Conferences by GitNation

    "You are here expecting a talk on Generative UI. This is not that talk... because I failed." © This failure revealed a harsh reality: the "productivity boost" from AI coding agents is often an illusion. :point_right::skin-tone-2: Instead of speed, "vibe coding" is creating massive technical debt. Data shows that blind automation lowers actual productivity by 20%. In this video, Shawn Swyx Wang reveals the data-backed way to fix this. 📌 Follow the link to watch the full version of all the conference talks, QnA’s with speakers and hands-on workshop recordings: 🔗 https://gitnation.com/events/r…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • Ep. 38: Swyx, Cognition Team and Latent Space Podcast Host

    October 19, 2025 · 📺 Delta Podcast

    Shawn Wang (aka Swyx) is the founder of the Latent Space podcast. Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • How Shawn (swyx) Wang Defines the AI Engineer

    July 23, 2025 · 📺 RedMonk

    In this RedMonk conversation, Shawn (swyx) Wang discusses the evolving role of the AI Engineer with Kate Holterhoff. They chat about the definition of an AI Engineer, the differences between AI Engineers and traditional software developers, and the impact of AI on job titles. The conversation also touches on the rise of vibe coding, frontend observability, and the AI Engineer World's Fair.

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • Career Specialization in AI Software Engineering with Swyx (Shawn Wang)

    April 25, 2025 · 📺 This Dot - Leadership Exchange

    In this episode of The Leadership Exchange, Rob Ocel sits down with Shawn Wang—better known as Swyx—to explore how AI is reshaping the software industry from the inside out. Swyx shares his journey from parsing Bloomberg chat logs as a trader to co-founding the AI Engineer Summit and helping define the emerging discipline of AI engineering. He draws parallels to previous waves like frontend and DevOps, noting how AI engineering is quickly becoming its own specialization with unique practices, tools, and community norms. They discuss where AI is genuinely driving productivity—particularly for…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • Are AI AGENTS Learning to DREAM? | Shawn Wang on TBPN April 4th

    April 09, 2025 · 📺 TBPN

    TBPN.com is made possible by: Ramp - https://ramp.com/ Figma - https://figma.com/ Vanta - https://vanta.com/ Linear - https://linear.app/ Eight Sleep - https://eightsleep.com/tbpn Wander - https://wander.com/tbpn Public - https://public.com/ AdQuick - https://adquick.com/ Bezel - https://getbezel.com/ Numeral - https://www.numeralhq.com/ Polymarket - https://polymarket.com/ Attio - https://attio.com/ Fin - https://fin.ai/ Follow TBPN: https://tbpn.com/ https://x.com/tbpn https://open.spotify.com/show/2L6WMqY... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... https://youtube.com/@technologybrothe..…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • Engineering AI Agents – Shawn "swyx" Wang (Infer, Dec 2024)

    February 06, 2025 · 📺 Infer Vancouver

    Shawn ‪@swyxTV‬ Wang presents the state of engineering AI agents, gives a demo of Bolt and OpenAI's realtime APIs, and answers audience questions. From the NeurIPS edition of the Infer Vancouver Meetup on Dec 10, 2024. Thanks to Latent Space, Forestwalk Labs, and Northeastern University for their support in making Infer happen!

    Watch on YouTube ↗

The summary and quote tags on this profile are produced with AI assistance from verified, first-person interview transcripts, then checked by our team to confirm the speaker's identity and the accuracy of every quote. See how we verify →