back
user profile

swyx

24,260karma·6,031submissions·December 9, 2015
about
Writer/Angel in devtools and smol AI enjoyer.

ai engineer pod/news: https://latent.space/

conference: https://ai.engineer

devrel/devtools: https://dx.tips/

personal blog: https://swyx.io/ideas

book: https://learninpublic.org/

but you can also email username [at] ai dot engineer

---

meet.hn/city/37.7792588,-122.4193286/San-Francisco

Socials:

- x.com/swyx - youtube.com/@swyxtv

recent activity (6,031 total)
comment
is there a company that has kept DEI?
3mo ago·view thread
comment
thank you for maintaining this inspiring ecosystem.
3mo ago·view thread
comment
> They've published a fair amount about their architecture - enough that I imagine frontier labs could implement. i think the real ones know this is the tip of the iceberg? hparam tuning, data…
3mo ago·view thread
comment
you forgot to mention it requires 13 minutes of audio listening
3mo ago·view thread
comment
right but feel like comment count is a poor proxy for flamewar in an age where cheap intelligence to semantically classify discussions is available, so that, as affected me in the past, an author of a…
3mo ago·view thread
comment
hard to try bc with-aes has a login wall lol
3mo ago·view thread
comment
do you actually know or are you just guessing
3mo ago·view thread
comment
then they basically don't do knowledge work
3mo ago·view thread
comment
why exactly do we want to damp flamewars by comment count? as long as an individual comment fits the rules why do we punish comments in aggregate
3mo ago·view thread
comment
he wrote a book which i liked very much https://x.com/swyx/status/2019317444377211213 …
3mo ago·view thread
comment
> And reluctantly I have to hand it to the LLMs here: with the augmentation of the robots, we were able to take the more complex route of supporting both Better Auth and Clerk for a transitional pe…
3mo ago·view thread
comment
> There is no val associated with this domain
3mo ago·view thread
comment
saw your email, will get back!
3mo ago·view thread
comment
are you anti gmail? you are a rarity lol. also share your scripts pls?
3mo ago·view thread
comment
(former employee here) congrats Michel! so glad to see you guys adapting to the AI age so well (and using the crap out of Devin!) hmm so airbyte agents could serve as a form of MCP gateway, or a key b…
3mo ago·view thread
comment
great answers! exp the recap last line
3mo ago·view thread
comment
we did a well received interview with him if you'd like to hear about Sierra in his own words https://www.latent.space/p/bret …
3mo ago·view thread
comment
> have been able to successfully track the boost. lets get nitty gritty on this - can you say how you did this? because a lot of people think this is an unsolved problem
3mo ago·view thread
comment
care to attempt a top 3 differences that someone doing this kind of rewrite should know? (would teach me a little about Zig, about which i know 0)
3mo ago·view thread
comment
you prob just want to map ALL opuses to "opus-all" or somethign - do we really care on 4.5 vs 4.6 vs 4.7, we just want to see trendline over time
3mo ago·view thread
comment
and assuming all mentions are coding model mentions just because its on hn
3mo ago·view thread
comment
> Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Read requests' and limit 'Read requests per minute per user' of service 'sheets.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:84…
3mo ago·view thread
comment
made it up to troll people
3mo ago·view thread
comment
bit ironic i guess but unintentionally fitting
3mo ago·view thread
comment
> This project used an absolutely ridiculous number of tokens. I had to upgrade to the Claude Code $200/month plan and carefully avoid usage in the 8 AM-2 PM 2x peak window. that doesnt sound …
3mo ago·view thread
comment
co sign, tuning in to you and Das riffing was one of the highlights of my webdev career. bring it back!! (lmk if you'd like an ai.engineer stage to do it on)
3mo ago·view thread
comment
this may be the greatest title i've seen on hacker news in a decade
3mo ago·view thread
comment
^ didnt realize who posted the opposition - this is Jake Archibald, a longtime googler on the Chrome team, now joining Mozilla and posting opposition to the Chrome API. no wonder the criticism is so w…
3mo ago·view thread