AI & Software Quality with Shawn Wang (aka swyx)

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Richard talks with AI expert Shawn 'swyx' Wang about various AI topics and their impact on software quality.

Richard talks with AI expert Shawn "swyx" Wang about all sorts of AI topics, including how it fits into IDEs, AI agent implementations, the economics of AI subscriptions, the future of AI in software, and how all of this affects software quality. This episode was sponsored by mailtrap.io - modern email delivery for developers. Try Mailtrap for free: https://l.rw.rw/software_unscripted_3 Patreon supporters get ad-free episodes! https://patreon.com/SoftwareUnscripted Shawn's Latent Space Podcast - https://www.latent.space/podcast AI Engineer Conference Series - https://www.ai.engineer/ RAG - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retriev... Shawn's "WTF Happened in 2025?" site - https://wtfhappened2025.com/ Radiologist shortage - https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/hea... Intro – LLM psychosis & the Ilya Sutskever story Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Richard Feldman

Guest: Shawn Wang

Topics covered

• AI
• software quality
• IDEs
• AI economics
• AI subscriptions
• future of AI

Keywords

• AI
• software quality
• IDEs
• AI subscriptions
• economics of AI
• future of AI

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Organizations: Latent Space Podcast, AI Engineer Conference Series, WTF Happened in 2025?, Yahoo Finance

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