AI & Software Quality with Shawn Wang (aka swyx)

Episode notes

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: Patreon supporters get ad-free episodes! Shawn's Latent Space Podcast - AI Engineer Conference Series - RAG - Shawn's "WTF Happened in 2025?" site - Radiologist shortage - Intro - LLM psychosis & the Ilya Sutskever story

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