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

<p>https://podcast.scalingdevtools.com/episodes/swyx-2</p><p>Plus, Shawn started the AI Engineer movement with his essay <a href="https://www.latent.space/p/ai-engineer">Rise of the AI Engineer</a> and organized two incredible AI engineer conferences in the past twelve months - <a href="https://www.ai.engineer/worldsfair">AI Engineer World's Fair</a> and <a href="https://www.ai.engineer/summit/2023">AI Engineer Summit</a></p><p>And Shawn has angel invested in DevTools like <a href="https://airbyte.com/">Airbyte</a>, <a href="https://railway.app/">Railway</a>, <a href="https://supabase.com/">Supabase</a>, <a href="https://www.replay.io/">Replay.io</a>, <a href="https://stackblitz.com/">Stackblitz</a>, <a href="https://www.flutterflow.io/">Flutterflow</a>, <a href="https://fireworks.ai/">Fireworks.ai</a> while running the DevTools angels community.</p><p>Besides this, Shawn curates <a href="https://dx.tips/">DX.tips</a> (DevTools magazine) and in a past life wrote the <a href="https://www.learninpublic.org/">Coding Career handbook</a>, championed learn in public, cofounded <a href="https://www.sveltesociety.dev/">Svelte Society</a> and was previously Head of Developer Experience at <a href="https://temporal.io/">Temporal</a>, and a Developer Advocate at <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/">AWS</a> and <a href="https://www.netlify.com/">Netlify</a>.</p><p>Also, before this, Shawn had a very successful career in investment banking, trading, building data pipelines and performing quantitate portfolio management. I think this brings him a very unique perspective - I've always admired his ability to zoom out and see the big picture and the trends.</p><p>Even though Shawn is now all-in on AI, he's still one of the go-to authorities on DevTools go-to-market.</p><p>As you can tell, Shawn is someone I deeply admire. So I'm glad he came back.</p><p><strong>What we discuss:</strong></p><ul><li>Organizing the AI Engineer Conferences</li><li>Rise of the AI Engineer</li><li>Intentionality and principles (yes we even talk about Alcoholics Anonymous)</li><li>The AI CEO</li><li>Invisible deadlines</li><li>Ilya believing in AGI more than most people at OpenAI</li><li>Are developers going to be obsolete? </li><li><a href="https://x.com/thorwebdev">Thor</a> convinced swyx to invest in Supabase</li><li>Building DevTools that work well with LLMs</li><li>Angel investing in DevTools - why and how</li><li>Is DevRel dead?</li><li>How to hire DevRel</li><li>Why DX.tips exists</li></ul><p><strong>Links:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.latent.space/p/ai-engineer">Rise of the AI Engineer</a> https://www.latent.space/p/ai-engineer</li><li><a href="https://www.latent.space/">Latent Space Podcast</a> https://www.latent.space/</li><li><a href="https://x.com/swyx">swyx's Twitter</a> https://x.com/swyx</li><li><a href="https://www.swyx.io/">swyx's website</a> https://www.swyx.io/</li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnswyxwang/">swyx's LinkedIn</a> https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnswyxwang/</li><li><a href="https://smol.ai/">smol.ai</a> https://smol.ai/</li><li><a href="https://github.com/sw-yx/devtools-angels">DevTools Angels</a> https://github.com/sw-yx/devtools-angels</li><li><a href="https://dx.tips/">DX.tips</a> https://dx.tips/</li><li><a href="https://dx.tips/zirp">DevRel's Death as Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon</a> https://dx.tips/zirp </li><li><a href="https://www.ai.engineer/summit/2023">AI Engineer Summit</a> https://www.ai.engineer/summit/2023</li><li><a href="https://www.ai.engineer/worldsfair">AI Engineer World's Fair</a> https://www.ai.engineer/worldsfair</li><li><a href="https://www.learninpublic.org/">Coding Career Handbook</a> https://www.learninpublic.org/</li><li><a href="https://podcast.scalingdevtools.com/episodes/swyx">Shawn's previous appearance on Scaling DevTools</a> https://podcast.scalingdevtools.com/episodes/swyx </li><li><a href="https://asana.com/resources/eisenhower-matrix">Eisenhower Matrix</a> https://asana.com/re