Shawn Wang

btw if you havent set your {codex | claude | gemini | devin} automations to autoresearch how to improve your seo/aeo every week you are really truly missing out on free, should-be-commoditizing-but-weirdly-untapped alpha

RT Laude Institute Andy @andykonwinski and @swyx talked through why AI researchers may be uniquely well-positioned to wield power responsibly right now, why most of them are still thinking about impact only in terms of companies and citations - and how to change that.

it seems that the new metagame to boost your x articles is to quote tweet it with an aie video so that your article gets the 500k views from reposting the video on x i honestly dont hate it at all, just credit the speaker (eg @cormacb) and link the original youtube in the first reply thanks for tagging us on it

RT AI Engineer Re 🆕 Research to Reality with Google DeepMind https://youtu.be/1P1hJ36rxM0 Way back in the ancient times of 2018, Google X started a skunkworks project exploring how ML could improve coding. @benoitschilling was CTO, and many people were incredible skeptical. Benoit now leads the Gemini Thinking, Reasoning, and Coding teams at @GoogleDeepMind, and still sees more potential for AI to solve software - even now that coding has moved from machine-constrained to design-constrained: The challenge is no longer writing the code itself, but ensuring the code aligns with specific, complex requirements, shifting the role of the developer toward architecture, verification, and high-level reasoning.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT the react avengers have assembled

we make sure some of the top YC AI companies are featured at AIE every single year. this year, we were graced by @garrytan and @eve_bouff to cap off our startups and design engineer focused audiences respectively. Really enjoyed these raw high value perspectives!

RT AI Engineer 🆕 "Increasingly we find that you have a human working with a team of agents, and then the agents can start working with the other agents." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Tr-DknG2M @leerob's excellent keynote on how @cursor_ai is building the third era of software development is now live, covering the inner and outer training loops (outer - user feedback and AB testing, inner - refining evals, reward shaping, and training ambitious tasks), Cursor Bench, the new Colossus infra, and how models are starting to train models.

you can just tweet things into existence

someone just told me about this take* on CUA this is one of those gell mann moments for me lol. i've been watching computer use since World of Bits (Shi, fan, karpathy, hernandez & liang 2017). we were the first technical pod to interview @jluan about Adept's work three years ago, we were there in the @AnthropicAI building when they first launched Computer Use 2 years ago, I fanboyed over Claude Cowork in our @felixrieseberg pod 3 months ago, and we ran our first full computer use track at @aidotengineer ft. @DhruvBatra_ @proceduralia @francedot 3 weeks ago. GPT 5.6 + Superapp is even better at CUA than everything i just mentioned. excited for our @AriX podcast to discuss the @skybysoftware story and Codex progress. if you actually use these things as intensely as we do, CUA is progressing so, so incredibly fast. i have asked my nontechnical team to CUA as much as possible, all their knowledge work with signing up for random payment and invoicing portals and speaker and sponsor and attendee and vendor and union data requests. if you found yourself nodding along to this take below, you are so not up to date that you don't know what you don't know, and underestimating capabilities is quite a dangerous category error if you are doing any ai decisionmaking. *i admire dwarkesh alot; only criticizing one single take, not the message nor the overall enterprise, screenshot only to share

RT AI Engineer 🆕This Year In Claude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU5Gv2h8-9g @simonw chats with @_catwu and @trq212 about the state of: - @claudeai Code - Claude Fable - @anthropicai culture & product strategy - Claude Tag & multiplayer collaboration - The surprising succcess of Remote control - HTML artifacts for code review - Why Anthropic uses Auto Mode as the standard for long-running tasks at Anthropic, not --dangerously-skip-permissions - using Claude for Video editing - how to be more ambitious as a developer: refusing to "negotiate against oneself" Timestamps 0:00 Introductions and Claude Code overview 1:22 How coding agents have changed daily workflows 3:51 Shifting focus: Product sense over manual implementation 5:09 Why modern rewrites are now beneficial 6:37 Introducing Claude Tag and team collaboration 11:38 Prioritization and internal "dog-fooding" culture 13:06 The surprise success of remote control features 14:17 Evolving code review processes and automation 17:16 Building trust in new model generations 19:18 Optimizing for capability and user experience 21:23 Reducing system prompts for frontier models 28:05 The philosophy of tool design 30:57 Safety, security, and using Auto Mode 37:53 The human element and developer ambition 41:50 Surprising use cases for Claude (e.g., video editing) 43:35 Limitations and future design aspirations 45:09 Cultural hacks for productivity 46:42 Absurd, fun projects built with Claude 49:03 Audience Q&A

ok this might be AI Woodstock 2.0 i'd love to do this actually outdoors, in a park with a small sound stage, but dont have contacts. has anyone organized an outdoors event in the Presidio, City Hall, or GGP before? even a small one cc @NaderLikeLadder @TheAhmadOsman youre gonna have to extend ur stay lmao

calling it now FDE -> ODE -> PDE the existence of Forward Deployed Engineering and now Ordinary Deployed Engineering implies that the next pokemon evolution is Partial Deployed Engineering

as someone who does a lot of dev community and dev youtube this pace of growth has been one of the greatest mysteries to me because clearly there's something to learn here @sytses i'd love to talk to whoever was the growth guy/gal at Kilo!!

hi old friends, quick guide if you know me from my hedge fund days, look up the @latentspacepod with @fabknowledge if you know me from Typescript/React, look up @cramforce’s @aidotengineer keynote and @bcherny’s pod with us if you know me from AWS/Temporal/Data Eng, google the pod with @matei_zaharia and @rxin. yes, Rise of the AI Engineer is a brazen adaptation of @mistercrunch’s essay. if you know me for devrel, check out @dxtipshq and @MilksandMatcha’s writing meetups. general changelog of last 10 years is below. welcome back

RT dex Re great ep @DavidOndrej1 @swyx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWk9PBbKqzc

RT Latent.Space 🆕 5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World’s Fair 2026 https://latent.space/p/aiewf26trends @ricmac's big recap of @aidotengineer: 1. The focus shifts from agents to systems 2. Loop engineering is the new control layer 3. Al engineering enters the enterprise 4. Coding agents replace IDEs 5. Every agent platform is building around skills

uhm this gpt 5.6 launch might be the openai's most successful model ever since... since chatgpt? this is IPO altering stuff going on here

[40something VC who just came back from a week in Shanghai, staying at the best Marriotts, chauffeured in the latest Audis and BMWs, bag full of LV, Chanel and Lancôme for the wife] "Let me tell you, I just came back from China and my god the West is so cooked"

RT AI Engineer 🆕Don't Build Agents You Can't Answer For https://youtu.be/n97BCfyFIvw @addyosmani's closing keynote on: - roles/titles < system ownership - on @mitchellh: "Taste is the ability to make high-quality qualitative judgments where no objective metric exists yet." - "if generation scales faster than comprehension, the scarce resource becomes judgment backed by evidence." His new rule: "Explain it or don't ship it."

cosign. models have overtuned to this now and do not realize when the agentsmd is out of date and should be changed/ignored. last night i goaled 5.6 sol to complete a 5 stage task and woke up to find it was still stuck on stage 0. it took a while to read the transcript back a few hours to realize at some point some agent had committed “stage 0 is the target dont do anything else” so poor sol spent 8 hours only refining and verifying stage 0 because /goal would not let it stop and agentsmd would not let it proceed. if you dont know whats in your agentsmd before you fire off each task, it is an indirect prompt injection you perform on yourself. /plan, /goal, /skill, or nothing at all.

RT Latent.Space Did... Codex just overtake Claude Code? 24.5 hours ago Tibo announced 6M active users. this means Codex usage jumped 1M in ~ONE DAY. the last user number we heard from Claude Code was 2M in Feb: https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-codex-usage-up-10x-in-6-months more analysis within, but this is very big if true.

where i'm currently at for Big Boy projects: - sol ultra to plan - fable 5 to critique - sonnet 5/terra ultra/swe 1.7 to ultracode/slop cannon - devin review to review (using kakuna) ~always use a variant of @mattpocockuk's grill-me or @trq212's interview-me to elicit decisions upfront

RT Cerebras Dominic Kundel (from @OpenAI) gives the inside scoop on where GPT-5.6-Sol gets magical: computer use. Background browser tabs, app control, multi-agent fanout, and Codex verifying its own work all change when latency drops. Join us in the Token Billionaires Lounge, presented by @cerebras and @aiDotEngineer. In conversation with @dkundel // @MilksandMatcha

RT AI Engineer 🆕 In Code They Act, In Proof We Trust — Erik Meijer last year, @solomonstre defined agents as "an LLM that's wrecking its environment in a loop", and @simonw coined the Lethal Trifecta for agents, that remains unsolved. our closing keynote @headinthebox introduces the main motivations behind Automind and the Universalis interpreter - agents that carry their own verifiable proof of safety! link to talk below

one of the most memorable cooking pods we've had - both in terms of the content and the food! high protein percentage in both.

By the end of the year we should have: GPT 6 Fable 5.5 Gemini 3.5 Pro Grok 5 Spark 2 Kimi 3 Minimax M3.5 GLM 6 DeepSeek v4.5 Mistral 4 Qwen 4 MiMo 3 Never in the history of LLMs has the frontier been so multipolar. The benefits to agent labs and agent orchestration / LLM council judges/sidekicking are ramping up. invest accordingly

its been surreal to see @willccbb's career take off after getting unleashed on the world. PI (esp @asharoraa and @vincentweisser and @jackminong etc too many to name) are overlooked for having both incredible talent density and great execution. to this extent their crypto-adjacent vibes and aurafarming even works AGAINST them because you pattern match to people who -only- have vibes and nothing else. if this is intentional, it is kinda genius tbh as someone who publicly (in our @jacobeffron pod) lost hope on RLaaS businesses over a year ago, PI, AC and friends have shown that the prevgen weren't wrong, just early/skill issue. both humbling and inspiring!

RT Samantha Trimble for people using codex to draft emails and slacks, try this simple 1x setup. it’s been a biggie for me: “read my sent emails and slacks from the last 3 weeks, read-only. learn only from substantive messages i wrote, keeping audiences and channels separate. build a my-voice skill from patterns you can support with examples. show me before saving it. use it whenever you draft for me, but never send anything. when i show you what i actually sent, compare it with your draft and propose durable updates to the skill.” after that “use $my-voice to reply to this. draft only”

btw the difference is introspection/backpropagation as einstein famously said, the definition of insanity is doing multiple rollouts with no expectation of advantage

if you only learned about jevons paradox primarily wrt software demand in the age of agentic engineering, you may not have fully internalized jevons parodox’s impact under the conditions of: - humans who can wield coding agents well* - coding agents breaking containment to all other knowledge work as the efficiency of labor goes up/unit cost of knowledge work goes broadly down, the demand for total work and better knowledge goes up, not down. what happened to coding isnt the exception; it’s the herald. *aka AI Engineers

RT Ahmad DROP EVERYTHING The first panel from the Local AI Summit at AIEWF is now live “State of the Union: Why Local, Why Now” Featuring leaders from NVIDIA, Roboflow, Osmantic, Forward Future, and EXO Labs

RT AI Engineer "I think it's important for people to understand how code works." Geoffrey Litt's Design Eng track keynote is live now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkBPX-oDMnA Thank you @NotionHQ for supporting his incredible work and thank you Geoff for kicking off WF26 for our Design Engineers!

RT Matthew Berman .@swyx and I sat down at AIE to talk about AGI, frontier lab strategy, chips, Fable, government, and AI existentialism

whoever does AEO for @resend needs to get a raise, all the leading frontier models keep trying to use resend for emails even when i have existing transactional infrastructure already set up

RT Sarah Chieng Technical writing is the #1 top-of-funnel motion at a $12B company @philipkiely broke down exactly how he does it, his full writing process, the hindsight 20/20 lessons, and how one article drove 500K+ views This [technical] Write and Learn workshop #5 is part of our Independent Studies series, hosted with @swyx @KernelLabs_ai. All sessions are recorded. Our next one will be in two weeks :)

Re u guys were clowning on @greptile but turns out they were just the inspo for @openai to go so, so much harder https://x.com/JangLawrenceK/status/2075204015890325703