Latent Space: swyx on bringing the first AI Engineer conference to Shanghai
Latent Space · youtube · 2026-11-04
Latent Space publishes an interview with swyx (Shawn Wang) by Galen Gao ahead of AIEi Shanghai, the first AI Engineer conference in China:
- Origins: How a blog on open-source AI became Latent Space, and how the AI Engineer conference turned 'AI engineer' into an identity — with the conference itself run as a dataset.
- Kill My SaaS: Agents can rebuild tools and pass entry checks, but picking a winner still requires someone who understands what organizers actually need — a look at what the contest judge measured.
- China topics: OpenClaw adoption in China and how Thinking Machines' interaction models change talking to AI.
- Event: AI Engineer Shanghai 2026 (ai.engineer/shanghai/2026).
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