Shawn Wang

guys Opus 4.8 is very very good at writing agent code (zero dependencies, all llm 1P SDKs not just claude, sorry agent frameworks) you should try it. think they trained @ErikSchluntz's and @barry_zyj's Building Effective Agents into this thing

RT Tomasz Tunguz I've been using state-of-the-art models to teach small models running on my computer how I work. The result : a personal agent that runs my inbox, my deal pipeline, my blog, my calendar, & my research. 🧵

met with @ACM_President today! we awarded Industry Spotlights at @CAISconf, and all posters and OpEx talks will be presenting at @aiDotEngineer next month more AIE x ACM collaboration incoming! wonder what a “Turing award of AI Engineering” could look like…

RT Walden If you're building your own cloud agent like Devin or Ramp Inspect, there's lots of great details here on setting up VMs, computer use, memory, and more. Fun deep dive with the creator of OpenInspect on what setting up a cloud agent entails https://www.latent.space/p/cognition

RT Eiso Kant Loving the @latentspacepod breakdown of our Laguna M.1/XS.2 Technical Report! The Latent Space paper club just did a deep dive, and their takeaways perfectly capture what we set out to build with our Model Factory. A few quotes from the video 🧵👇 (1/6) https://youtu.be/QLfZamyMls0

"Developers can update Claude’s instructions mid-task without breaking the prompt cache or routing the update through a user turn" wtf? how??

RT Udayan Walvekar AIE Singapore was a blast. Met so many great people, one of them was @swyx. This man doesn't know that he's made it 💙.

RT Latent.Space 🆕Biohub’s Protein World Model: ESMC-6B, ESMFold2, 6.8B proteins, 1.1B structures, antibody design, SAEs, & the bitter lesson for biology https://www.latent.space/p/esmfold2 @biohub Head of Science @alexrives explains why biology may scale like language modeling, how metagenomics unlocked the next ESM scaling curve, why protein LMs can learn structure/function from sequence alone, how sparse autoencoders reveal biology inside the model, why ESMFold2 can beat specialized systems on antibody-antigen prediction, and how Biohub’s $500M Virtual Biology Initiative aims to build predictive models of cells, disease, and eventually physiology.

RT Rebecca Bakels Who will I see at @aiDotEngineer World's Fair? Getting so excited!

RT Madhav Singhal latent space pod is still very underrated, especially on the applied side of things glad that they have kept it very high signal one of the few pods i listen to while working out and I always find myself re-looking up some reference/info that i found on the pod for work

RT Fayaz Ahmed Introducing Screendrop - a screenshot tool for everyone Opensource Host your own cloud with R2 + a tiny little hono worker Native Screenshot capture and editor Video recorder, editor and compressor This is one of the best apps I've built.

RT Aleksa Gordić (水平问题) new in-depth blog post time: Inside the Transformer: The Life of a Token a deep dive into a modern dense transformer, i cover YaRN (why does pairwise coordinate rotation induce positional information?), hybrid attention (getting to 160k context length), soft capping, QK normalization, etc. as the token flows through the transformer bonus transformer math: FLOPs/token formula (and when is 6N formula broken), cluster sizing (how big of a cluster do you need given the model/data size and experiment throughput of interest), and more

RT Michael ngl Latent Space is quietly the best podcast in the tech space right now by far. The quality of conversation is insane. I just learned: -Turbopuffer CEO ran the co off his personal credit cards because he messed up on the napkin math and had negative margins with Cursor -Turbopuffer ceo LITERALLY bought a fiberoptic line from -Will Bryk didn't learn to drive until 23 because he worked at SpaceX/Zoox and believed Elon's self-driving car timeline -People are genuinely using Exa to find partners -Companies are basically using Modal as a second backend

TIL @balajis was a one man internal agi for @brian_armstrong before openclaw existed

RT AI Engineer Group discounts for AI Engineer World's Fair are now live! Bring 5 and save 10%. Bring 10 and save 15%. Bring 15+ and save 20%. June 29 to July 2, San Francisco.

very belated but in retrospect i think @sama's mythical "build a business that gets better when models get better" is basically what I called Agent Labs here. seeing a very direct correlation with model performance and agent lab revenue, discontinuity in Q4 2025 (clip from @patrickc's stripe sessions)

IMO deep research has been ~dead since o3 and interactivity was always more impt for active learning and eliciting intention thoughtless prompt -> long ass report nobody reads is inferior to read -> think -> ask -> read -> think -> ask

oh no contextual got windsurfed

RT Fryd Wiatrowski Today, we’re announcing Viktor’s $75M Series A, led by @Accel . @viktor__com was supposed to be a small experiment. It became the AI coworker 10x'ing real businesses. $15M in annualized revenue run rate. In 10 weeks. – Small companies saving millions of dollars – Sourcing hundreds of thousands in new revenue in their first 30 days – Whole teams getting half their week back – Companies running 40% leaner without cutting output Viktor is not another AI tool. It’s the first true AI employee. The vision that has been with us since 2023 when we started the company has finally been shipped. Back then, it was just the two of us, with a very small but dedicated team, iterating for years. Failing multiple times. Showing products that users didn't even want to test! But we never gave up. Our decisions were often wrong. Certainly more often than not! We kept trying. Now we’ve shipped something people love. Worth every sleepless night. Every sacrifice. The best employees don’t need to be told what to do. Neither does Viktor. Grateful to @Accel, our team, our earliest users, and everyone who believed this category could be bigger than chat.

taking bets for vercel and supabase rn

RT Raveesh 折図 Re @mathurahravi This by @swyx is some of the best writing on the internet https://www.swyx.io/create-luck

wordcels feel like they are winning extremely hard rn but it is because they cannot reason beyond 3 dimensions the way tensor rotators can. ignorance is bliss.

this seems quite doable in the space of a single 2-3 hour workshop — any brave soul want to try to livecode this for people as a learning exercise?

RT Yong Quan @ AIE SG will post more about (final) day 2 of @aiDotEngineer Singapore soon but memorable highlights i wanted to remember is how @theesabina and @bytheophana (both from nyc) were genuinely shocked and on guard by how friendly people were at the summit 😅 nyc energy clashing w spicy-brain singapore ai scene energy other highlights: - @DelaneSays bringing her 4yo kid to watch the conference!! little ki learning about llms and computer use before algebra, befriending BOTH robots and humans with @waqasmakhdum @DhruvDiddi 😆 - after 15 hours of sleep, first thing i watched was @agrimsingh's closing speech :')) the 65labs team is an inspiration on how to bring SOUL and HEART to a growing scene - @GeoffreyHuntley giving me great advice on what hats to not be wearing lmao. ty for saving me from getting cancelled by accident && for bringing ur sick hat fashion to the scene - bringing @convex team @waynesutton @mikeysee @existentializzm on a duck tour in singapore!! it'd be so great to see convex land in singapore more permanently :)) - @yoimnotkesku and @adlinzainal fighting over who gets to pay for the volunteers!! kes rly acing the 'singaporean citizenship application' at every turn haha ty @adlinzainal for being the mom of the team :D - went on a dinner tour with newly found aie friends and @ktoya_me suddenly wanting to do a mini-hack with @ElevenLabs and us at AIT, then bumping into @latentclaw who was super SUPPORTIVE OF IT lfg - me realizing there were FOUR AIT ex/current leads in AIE Singapore: @tokengobbler matthiaslubken @Stefania_druga and @Calclavia -- so many community-minded folks doing amazing things! pity i didnt get to meet half of u in person :') - @unprofeshme @adlinzainal sharing their MAXIMALIST, GIFT GIVING love languages and giving me inspiration for future merch - bumping into @minu_who and @hrishioa at the afterparty, and the alcohol-fuelled conversations after 😂 - @brianchew & yiming's quiet but consistent presence in providing for v...

RT Zixuan Li My AI Engineer Singapore journey: Most exciting: First time traveling abroad after joining http://Z.ai, and my very first English talk on stage. Most challenging: Spoke in a three-speaker session alongside OpenAI and Google DeepMind, with http://Z.ai presenting third. Survived, and realized that people did like some of the things I shared. Most surprising: Met the @MiniMax_AI team three times, and each time we talked for at least half an hour. Instead of discussing AI, we talked about humans. Most rewarding: Learned a lot from deep conversations with @GeoffreyHuntley , @sarahookr, @picocreator, and many other wonderful guest speakers. Biggest regret: Did not have enough time to talk with everyone I wanted to know. Proudest moment: Stayed until the very end of every event. Got a lot of positive feedback when people had heard of GLM and http://Z.ai. When they had not, it felt just as meaningful to introduce what we are building. Funniest part: As one of the major sponsors, somehow did not look like a sponsor at all. No booth, no side events, and not much sponsor presence prepared on our side. More like a group of friends showing up to support the community. Thanks to @aiDotEngineer, 65 Labs, all the organizers, speakers, builders, friends, and my team who made these days so memorable. I truly want to @ all of you, but I am afraid I might miss someone, so please take this as an @ from my heart. See you at the next AI Engineer event, and see you again in Singapore soon.

RT Richard Sutton The bitter lesson in 26 words: Don’t be distracted by human knowledge, as AI has been historically. Instead focus on methods for creating knowledge that scale with computation, like search and learning.

Re @gabrielchua the agentic excel thing is basically what u get when u expand the side panel to be the main thing https://x.com/jxnlco/status/2056139571641872765?s=12

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we do not post AIE videos with bullshit brainrot hype lingo, and this is the consequence: the entire AIE back catalog is being reposted by "influence operators" almost daily, without credit to speakers like @trq212 or @aidotengineer if you see these just do a small favor of tagging and giving credit. community note not needed, let them make their bags, but i just request that the right accounts that produced the content be tagged. this wont go anywhere as much as this guy's automated repost campaign, but just making a small call out. actual video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqC1qOfiVcQ&t=1s (h/t @raoufcode )

RT Abhishek @AI Engineer SG Hats off guys. The bar has been raised @aiDotEngineer @agrimsingh @swyx 🫡

RT Daria Soboleva Re @cerebras IPO'd this week 🔥🔥🔥 More people reached out to me in the last few days is somehow higher than on my birthdays!!! Many thanks to every single one of you. In one of my first conversations at Cerebras, @nataliavassilie told me she had this feeling of restlessness. There's a phrase in Russian for it ("шило в попе", which translates, not at all elegantly, to "an awl in the ass"). The inability to sit still. The need to keep building, keep moving, keep learning. That echoed a lot for me. I can't sit still either. I want to learn, develop and never plateau. This is exactly how I felt being a part of Cerebras. When I joined we didn't have PyTorch support. I got to work on the first implementation of our transformer network, and I still remember @andrewdfeldman DMing me on slack, "you can do it, daria." I did. We did. As a part of being at Cerebras I worked in 3 countries. I started in Russia, went to Canada, and landed in the US. Mostly during COVID, mostly figuring out Western countries in real time. I wanted to express heartfelt gratitude to Andrew Fetter, who resolved obstacle after obstacle for me anywhere I was. Honestly it felt like he cared about me the way you'd care about your own daughter. Thank you! Five years in, I'd choose Cerebras again without a second of hesitation. And I am SO excited about what we build next. PS I'm writing this from Singapore on my last night here. @aiDotEngineer was incredible! Huge thanks to the organizers! I gave a talk here, recorded with @ATPinsights, got to hang with @howdymj and @mint0themax (thank you for inviting me!!), and Delane Foo was the best Singaporean food guide! THAT FOOD. THOSE VIEWS. So clean, so welcoming. The moment that stayed with me: a group of high schoolers came up after my talk with questions, real curiosity. Hungry to start building. They told me I inspired them. Honestly, they inspired me a lot more! Motivation and the right environment are very important. I had...

RT JSConf.Asia Congratulations @agrimsingh @swyx to wrapping up the first @aiDotEngineer Singapore conference! Love to see it and well done! 🥳👏🍾

AIE coming to India soon!

RT Michael Arnaldi Some folks have FOMO due to the Miami Effect Meetup and would like an SF meetup, if you're in SF and are interested in helping pls reply! cc @0xblacklight @RhysSullivan @swyx @theo @ethanniser @biilmann @TimSuchanek @michaelfester @marieschneegans @elsigh @dok2001 @dillon_mulroy @davis7

RT Greg Brockman the Codex app is in a category of its own. “agentic excel on mac” is an interesting description.

RT Wayne Sutton Closing out day 2 of @aiDotEngineer Singapore. @swyx a man for the people!

gotta say Codex is completely unrecognizable from 3 months ago. guys went extreme founder mode on this thing @gabrielchua was demoing this and i was like “you guys have agentic excel on mac”

holy shit lmao @Gavriel_Cohen he's seriously using this thing for conducting the foreign policy/parliamentary affairs of singapore - and sharing his stack on how he is hacking around WhatsApp and doing graph memory on SQLite wtf is this vibecoded country man

getting ready for our first Cabinet Minister ever speaking not as a politician, but as a @NanoClaw_AI user and AI Engineer!

RT Sherry Jiang is at ai engineer singapore day 1 of @aiDotEngineer singapore is in the books!! an awesome day of workshops and leadership sessions that saw nearly 2/3rd of the conference attendees rock up - no amount of rain can stop the builders! the builders are well and truly here at aie sg @swyx @agrimsingh @adlinzainal @unprofeshme @aimuggle @ivanleomk @gabrielchua

RT Han Xiao Had the opportunity to catch up with @latentspacepod's recent episodes on a long road trip. Strongly recommend the one with @swyx x @jacobeffron. Today most thought pieces on where AI is heading that try to go all macroeconomic end up being a giant waste of time - and I was getting tired of those. But swyx's takes are always super frank, super grounded. Listened to this one twice on the road, can highly recommend.

Apparently at @AIEMiami geoff complained about @SAPConcur being dead software and a SAP guy was in the audience and invited him to SAP to advise on how to do AI transformation for 6800 employees TLDR he made fun of SAP, and SAP… concurred

Blogs die when they come from "the ____ team" instead of named individuals With great ownership comes great accountability

being vulnerable - by far one of the most important applied ai fields is in AI x Healthcare, but nobody on my team knows how to cover it! very fortunate to have @jacobeffron on the pod for this one - I took a healthcare economics class once many moons ago, but not only is he on the @AbridgeHQ board, he’s also an excellent podcaster (@ULpodcast) in his own right and people really enjoyed our annual crossover pod chat. I organically bring up a lot of @redpoint portcos in many of my conversations and his questions here were very on point if you are interested in how AI is improving healthcare outcomes and finances across the board!

beautiful tech stack writeup, one of the best i've ever seen in my career. I always advocate that devtools companies write these up, because it fulfils multiple purposes: - tell users the care that goes into the product - tell hires that there's SOTA work here - tell competitors to give up - gives back to community - (nuanced) tell non-fits why they can't have what they want when they think it's an easy request few actually do this mostly because they don't actually have sufficient depth, or aren't sufficiently good at notetaking/systematic about problemsolving ('its just vibes' or 'honestly we just went with the first thing that worked' doesn't come across as well, so rather not say anything) so when you've done the work, show the work. bravo Raycast

after 15 years of waiting, the developers of singapore gave up on waiting for the government to get the tech sector going and finally brought SF to SG. great showings from @daytonaio @usetusk @arizeai and @zocomputer tonight (this is the SECONDARY venue for those not at ClawCon SG) ahead of @aidotengineer SG