Swyx, AI Engineer and host of the Cognitive Revolution pod, discusses the state of AI Engineering, AI Engineer Summit Schedule, backgrounds of AI engineers, key tools for AI engineers, finding and hiring AI engineers, the future of AI technology, React app structure, GBC4 Vision Access for vision and voice modalities, OpenAI's dominance in adjacent use cases, and challenges of offering AI app bundles.

Guest Swyx discusses Software 3.0, model architecture, putting foundation models into production, emerging AI developer landscape, retrieval augmented generation, AI UX innovation, GPT updates, and the importance of building projects that solve for customers' use cases.

Swyx, developer, writer, and startup advisor, discusses the rise of AI engineers, the differences between AI and ML engineers, and the demand for this specialization. He also talks about successful products made using existing foundation models and the practical considerations of running AI models. The podcast explores the cost advantages of using APIs or cloud providers for AI engineering and the career implications of being an AI engineer.

Swyx, a senior developer advocate at AWS and author of The Coding Career Playbook, discusses getting help without a big following, remixing and summarizing others' work, creating Friendcatchers, betting on technologies, and his new book.

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