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The Rise of the AI Engineer by Shawn Wang at Web Directions Summit 2023

The Rise of the AI Engineer

How is AI crossing over from PhD level ML research into real life applications, and how are software engineers rising to the challenge to build a new subdiscipline of engineering?

Hear Shawn Wang’s thoughts at Web Directions Summit.

About Shawn Wang

swyx is Writer and Cohost of the Latent Space AI newsletter/podcast and founder of smol.ai. Swyx previously worked on DX at AWS and 3 devtools unicorns (Netlify, Temporal, Airbyte). He is a GitHub Star, Stripe Community Expert, helped run the React subreddit for over 200,000 developers and grew Svelte Society from 0 to over 15,000 developers, and is best known for the Learn in Public movement (and book). His last time in Sydney was in the last century!

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