swyx
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Shawn Wang, known as "swyx," is a developer and writer whose career spans currency-options trading at Two Sigma and developer-experience roles at AWS, Netlify, Temporal, and Airbyte. He is best known for coining the phrase "the Rise of the AI Engineer" and for co-founding AI Engineer, which runs the AI Engineer Summit conference, alongside hosting the Latent Space newsletter and podcast. He also authored The Coding Career Handbook and built large developer communities including Svelte Society.
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Walkthrough of Claude Mods, event-driven TypeScript plugins that observe, re-render or replace Claude Code behavior, and an argument that the harness's future is the human-facing attention layer.
Fred Schott's Flue reaches its first stable release built on React-style Agent Hooks, where an agent is a JavaScript function that re-renders before every model call and can manage its own state and attach capabilities mid-run.
Latent Space's AI News recap of Meta Connect 2026 covers Muse's shift to voice and real-time video, its rise past ChatGPT in the App Store, new AI glasses hardware, and Limitless re-emerging as Charm after its acquisition.
The author of the Generative Agents work explains how his company builds foundation models of human behavior: long-form interviews, observational and transaction data, randomized trials, and post-training on the causes behind a decision rather than the decision itself.