AI Engineer YouTube hits 2M monthly engineers in 3 years; Code Summit 2026 opens applications
RealGeneKim · x · 2026-11-03
swyx shares AI Engineer's 3-year growth: the YouTube channel now reaches 2M monthly unique engineers (76.4% new viewers) with 950K subscribers — the first 100K subs took 3 years, the next 100K only 1.2 months, validating his "Scaling without Slop" content strategy. He also teases the next phase of Latent Space and AINews, and opens applications for AI Engineer Code Summit 2026 (Nov 10-12, San Francisco), a highly selective agentic-coding summit: 800 admitted last year, 1.5M talk views worldwide, $1,499 tickets plus a $299 workshop add-on.
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