What Top 1% of Agentic Engineers Do Differently

"Stop starting, Start stopping" - next hype probably, idk

00:00 Introduction and the Reality of Token Maxing 05:00 Frontier Labs vs Domain-Specific Custom Models 10:08 Thinking in Loops and Designing Effective Agent Loops 17:54 The Critical Role of Human Taste and User Testing 28:47 Advice for AI Founders and Building Real Infrastructure Moats 39:58 Disrupting Legacy Software and the Rise of Agent Interfaces 46:25 Staying on the Cutting Edge, Modern Hiring, and Super Fast Inference

The guest: swyx (Shawn Wang) is a San Francisco-based technologist, investor, and community builder best known for championing the "AI Engineer" discipline. He is the co-host of the Latent Space Podcast, organizer of the AI Engineer World's Fair, and former developer experience leader at companies like AWS, Netlify, and Temporal

Feeding Davids Videos into Hermes and let GPT 5.6 Sol improve its behaviour based of video insights is just so valuable nowadays... crazy world we live in...Keep up the great work brother

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perhaps the best podcast about AI and what's going where

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supacool. just finally understand that i do kinda similar things driven by motivation to make other lifes easieer and help them and this is also something thtas explode nowadays. like everybody is sharing much more and i t maker less and less sense to make profit out of everything. Thank u so much for making alll of that. really like the way u tell things, thx for sharing

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