Skip to content
PodParley
The Swyx Mixtape podcast artwork

PODCAST · technology

The Swyx Mixtape

by Swyx

swyx's personal picks pod. Weekdays: the best audio clips from podcasts I listen to, in 10 minutes or less!Fridays: Music picks!Weekends: long form talks and conversations!This is a passion project; never any ads, 100% just recs from me to people who like the stuff I like.Share and give feedback: tag @swyx on Twitter or email audio questions to swyx @ swyx.io

Publisher-supplied feed metadata · PodParley refreshed Apr 14, 2026 · Source feed

Subscribe · 0 Bookmark

Episodes

  1. [Creator] The Chainsmokers

    The creative process of one of the most basic but successful pop duos * Selfie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdemFfbS5H0 * Listen to the Great Creators: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-great-creators/the-chainsmokers-how-to-RkLcl8EXHGT/ * Closer:...

  2. Swyx on Cognition and The Meaning of Life

    a surprisingly good quality dense chat with Delta Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYr1mSDNqKM

  3. [Chit Chat Stocks] swyx on the AI majors

    https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/chit-chat-stocks/the-future-of-artificial-3ylaqngtMR7/ [00:00:00] intro: Welcome to Chitchat Stocks on this show host Ryan Henderson and Brett Schaefer analyze businesses and riff on the world of investing. As a quick reminder, Chitchat Stocks is a CCM media...

  4. Intentionality, AI Eng, Devtools Angels, and DevRel - on Scaling DevTools

    https://podcast.scalingdevtools.com/episodes/swyx-2 Plus, Shawn started the AI Engineer movement with his essay Rise of the AI Engineer and organized two incredible AI engineer conferences in the past twelve months - AI Engineer World's Fair and AI Engineer Summit And Shawn has angel invested in...

  5. AI Eng on the Sandra Kublik pod

    https://sites.libsyn.com/493303/building-ai-in-2024-is-not-what-you-think-with-swyx

  6. [Generation Ship] AI Engineering for nontechnical people

    In episode 18 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers sits down with Shawn "swyx" Wang to delve into AI Engineering. Shawn shares his journey from popularizing the term "AI Engineer" to navigating the rapid advancements in AI technology. Together, they explore the evolving demands and opportunities in...

  7. [Plan B] swyx on nontechnical Singapore podcast

    https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/plan-b-news-beat-ZoCrxdekY79/ https://open.spotify.com/episode/45dTtNCiIxqySG1lU5addY?si=SeMrk4FBR_yGc4NtG8Ll5Q

  8. [High Agency] AI Engineer World's Fair Preview

    High Agency Pod Description In this episode, I chatted with Shawn Wang about his upcoming AI engineering conference and what an AI engineer really is. It's been a year since he penned the viral essay "Rise of the AI Engineer' and we discuss if this new role will be enduring, the make up of the...

  9. The Onion's A Very Fatal Murder

    Jeff Lawson just bought The Onion. This is one of my favorite episodes of their NPR podcast parody of Serial. https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/a-very-fatal-murder/episode-5-part-1-did-my-tJbSp9yP2wU/

  10. AI Engineering, Devin, and the Future of Software - swyx on Modern Web Podcast

    https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/modern-web/modern-web-podcast-s12e03-rl_OLdGJHS8/

  11. Serena Colyer - Intentionality

    I made a new friend, Serena (sister of Malindi!) who was so impressive and thoughtful in the short time I have known her (cooking, language learning, finance/science management) that I asked her to write down her philosophy of Intentionality. [00:02:05] Elements of Intentionality - Taste and...

  12. [Weekend Drop] Swyx on CodeRyan podcast

    "Navigating AI and Software 3.0: A Tech Career Guide for Developers": a more beginner oriented podcast interview for a new Youtuber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5qfKKct6dc here are the recommended resources for others who listened latent space university: https://www.latent.space/p/lsu-beta…

    more

  13. [Weekend Drop] Swyx on Real World Serverless

    years after following him for his serverless content, i was glad to be on Yan Cui's pod to talk Rise of AI Engineer. https://realworldserverless.com/episode/92i

  14. 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/

  15. [Weekend Drop] Swyx on Podrocket #3

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

  16. [Weekend Drop] Swyx on Shoptalk Show #2

    https://shoptalkshow.com/577/

  17. [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 side https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/ai-engineers-pendants-and-tensions-between-openai-and-developers-with-swyx-of-latent-space/

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

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

  19. [AI] Training Data - Shoptalk Show clip

  20. [AI] AGI discussion - Lex Fridman interviews John Carmack

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

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

  23. [AI] Hacker News Recap clip - wondercraft.ai

  24. 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

  25. [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 I felt like the space wasn't info dense enough for the main Latent Space pod but you get the full show as loyal swyx mixtape...

  26. [Weekend Drop] swyx on Productivity and leverage

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

  27. [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.

  28. [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-radio-563-david-cramer-on-error-tracking/ 1hr in

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

    revived by https://www.swyx.io/how-to-find-podcasts-that-have-been-deleted https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/12/19/no-code-with-shawn-wang/ The software category known as “no-code” describes a set of tools that can be used to build software without writing large amounts of code in a...

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

    https://overcast.fm/+-qMwI0I10/17:00

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

    https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/gamecraft/the-calculus-of-fun-ep-3-vaT0YeDE68S/

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

    from the start https://overcast.fm/+-qMx_5Oqo

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

    30 mins in to https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/gamecraft/the-fall-and-rise-of-KIbFrC70q93/

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

    30 mins in https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/gamecraft/steal-this-game-ep-1-o1CHsvutpKV/

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

    https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/08/09/state-of-javascript-with-sacha-greif/

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

    from https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/gradient-dissent/emily-m-bender-language-aVzCO4T2gGs/ further reading https://www.theverge.com/22309962/timnit-gebru-google-harassment-campaign-jeff-dean https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f2kYWDXwhzYnq8ebVtuk9CqQqz7ScqxhSIxeYGrWjK0/edit

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

    https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/fyi-for-your/the-evolution-of-ai-models-Fs_7Pd5f1aG/

  38. [AI] The origin of EleutherAI - Connor Leahy

    From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz4G9zrlAGs

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

    from https://overcast.fm/+HaNPbG9CU/24:00 to read: https://overcast.fm/+HaNPbG9CU/24:00

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

    from: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/gradient-dissent/peter-boris-fine-tuning-iu5-hVreSF8/ from 15mins in

  41. [Weekend Drop] Swyx on Infoshare Poland

    Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZnzzMbA7Vg 6:55 - Product versus Platform 9:05 - Durable Functions 13:49 - Coding Career Handbook for Junior to Senior Developers What Inspired You To Write It 16:02 - What Most Developers Should Know after They Get Their First Job 21:36 - How Did You...

  42. [Tech] The Origin of GKE - Tim Hockin

    Listen to the GCP podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/google-cloud/gke-turns-7-with-tim-hockin-tnr2DzMUkY1/

  43. [Tech] The Origin of Kubernetes - Steve Yegge

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKE1S7PK1fY 14.45mins in My article on Google vs OpenAI: https://lspace.swyx.io/p/google-vs-openai

  44. [Tech] The Origin of MongoDB - Dwight Merriman

    https://podcasts.mongodb.com/public/115/The-MongoDB-Podcast-b02cf624/f96bd55f Transcript Michael Lynn: Welcome to the show. My name is Michael Lynn and this is the MongoDB Podcast. Thanks for joining us. Today on the show, Lena Smart, Chief Security Officer of MongoDB, and I team up to interview...

  45. [Tech] Phlogiston and The Origin of Functional Reactive Programming

    Listen to the Future of Coding Podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/future-of-coding/structure-of-a-programming-vBrU6CDIG_Z/ (21mins)

  46. [Tech] The Origin of Markdown - John Gruber

    listen to John Gruber's pod https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-talk-show-with/356-an-unranted-rant-with-pVwlyZT_AS9/ (5mins) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1241578667916042240

  47. [Weekend Drop] Talking AI on the Techmeme Ride Home

    Our big AI discussion with @ReamBraden and @swyx. Shawn just posted this new essay drawing on what we discussed here: Every Google vs OpenAI Argument, Dissected full episode: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/techmeme-ride-home/twtr-spc-the-big-ai-discussion-vb0hd4qmEHA/

  48. [Story Friday] Pole Vaulting - Matthew Dicks

    Listen to the Moth https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-moth/the-moth-radio-hour-pole-d7XZGOob8fs/ (15mins in)

  49. [Health] Identity Change for Weight Loss - Layne Norton

    Listen to the Huberman Lab podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/huberman-lab/dr-layne-norton-the-science-QPRcFtj6kUL/ (52mins in)

  50. [Health] Ultra-long Fasts as a Medical Treatment

    Listen to the Art of Manliness: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-art-of-manliness/using-extended-fasting-to-QK28R5vd4IE/

View all 539 episodes →

Type above to search every episode's transcript for a word or phrase. Matches are scoped to this podcast.

Searching…

We're indexing this podcast's transcripts for the first time — this can take a minute or two. We'll show results as soon as they're ready.

No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.

Showing of matches

No topics indexed yet for this podcast.

Loading reviews...

ABOUT THIS SHOW

swyx's personal picks pod. Weekdays: the best audio clips from podcasts I listen to, in 10 minutes or less!Fridays: Music picks!Weekends: long form talks and conversations!This is a passion project; never any ads, 100% just recs from me to people who like the stuff I like.Share and give feedback: tag @swyx on Twitter or email audio questions to swyx @ swyx.io

HOSTED BY

Swyx

Produced by Shawn Swyx Wang

Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does The Swyx Mixtape have?

The Swyx Mixtape currently has 539 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.

What is The Swyx Mixtape about?

swyx's personal picks pod. Weekdays: the best audio clips from podcasts I listen to, in 10 minutes or less!Fridays: Music picks!Weekends: long form talks and conversations!This is a passion project; never any ads, 100% just recs from me to people who like the stuff I like.Share and give feedback:...

How often does The Swyx Mixtape release new episodes?

The Swyx Mixtape releases new episodes frequently with a large back catalog of 539 episodes. Check the episode list for recent publication dates.

Where can I listen to The Swyx Mixtape?

You can listen to The Swyx Mixtape on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.

Who hosts The Swyx Mixtape?

The Swyx Mixtape is created and hosted by Swyx.
URL copied to clipboard!