Solitude and Leadership

An essay I think about often, and recommend to people, that I need to internalize more. https://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Podrocket #3

https://podrocket.logrocket.com/software-3-and-the-ai-engineer

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Shoptalk Show #2

https://shoptalkshow.com/577/

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Cognitive Revolution

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 sidehttps://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/ai-en...

[Music Friday] Shouldn't I Be Less In Love With You - Oliver Tompsett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIMi4Yt-AIg

[AI] Training Data - Shoptalk Show clip

[AI] AGI discussion - Lex Fridman interviews John Carmack

[AI] Making state management intelligent - Reactathon 2023, David Khourshid

[AI] Why Chatbots are Not the Future - Amelia Wattenberger

[AI] Hacker News Recap clip - wondercraft.ai

Freecodecamp podcast #2

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-founder

[Weekend Drop] The Rise of the AI Engineer

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...

[Weekend Drop] swyx on Productivity and leverage

Video and pull quotes: https://www.humanskills.co/p/human-skills-012-productivity-and

[Weekend Drop] swyx on smol developer

smol developer took off this week. we convened a special twitter space to talk about what we should do next.

[Business] Why and How you should Open Source your code - David Cramer

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-r...

[Weekend Drop] No Code Jamstack (in 2019) - swyx on Software Engineering Daily

swyx talks with Jeff Meyerson on SEDaily about No Code for developers and about Netlify in 2019.

[Business] Community Games: from MUDs to MMORPGs - Gamecraft

Come for the content, stay for the community.

[Business] Mobile Games: from iOS to Facebook/Zynga/Farmville to King/Candy Crush

Mitch continues telling the story of mobile gaming.

[Business] Casual Games: from Deer Hunter to Snake - Gamecraft

Mitch Lasky tells the story of casual gaming from the most unlikely origins.

[Business] App Stores: Valve and the rise of Steam - Gamecraft

Mitch Lasky explains how Valve went from Half-Life to Counterstrike to... Steam..

[Business] Free2Play: From Piracy to League of Legends - Gamecraft

Mitch Lasky traces the rise of Free 2 Play gaming and Riot Games from... Asian piracy and internet cafes.

[Weekend Drop] The State of JavaScript (in 2017) - swyx and Sacha Greif

swyx's first ever technical podcast - guest hosting SE Daily in 2017 with Sacha Greif

[AI] Timnit Gebru, Margaret Mitchell and the Stochastic Parrots paper - Emily Bender

Emily M. Bender is a Professor of Linguistics at and Faculty Director of the Master's Program in Computational Linguistics at University of Washington. Her research ar...

[AI] Small Language Models and Training PubMedGPT - Naveen Rao

Naveen Rao is the CEO and Co-Founder of the machine learning (ML) training platform, MosaicML, and the former CEO and Co-Founder of Nervana Systems. Naveen shares insi...

[AI] The origin of EleutherAI - Connor Leahy

Connor is the co-founder and CEO of Conjecture (conjecture.dev), a company aiming to make AGI safe through scalable AI Alignment research, and the co-founder of Eleuth...

[AI] Behind ChatGPT: RLHF and the Proximal Policy Optimization - Practical AI

A great discussion of RLHF exhibited by ChatGPT by the PracticalAI guys

[AI] GPT3's advances, applications, and prompt engineering - Peter Welinder

Peter Welinder is VP of Product & Partnerships at OpenAI, where he runs product and commercialization efforts of GPT-3, Codex, GitHub Copilot, and more. Boris Dayma is...

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Infoshare Poland

A broad overview of everything I've been working on, including Temporal and Airbyte, Smart Clients vs Smart Servers, The Coding_Career Book, The Operating System of Yo...

[Tech] The Origin of GKE - Tim Hockin

The cocreator of GKE talks the origin of GKE, which just turned 7.

[Tech] The Origin of Kubernetes - Steve Yegge

My favorite truth teller talks about the office politics behind the launch of K8S