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Editor; Founder at Latent Space / Smol AI / AI Engineer.
Tools swyx (Shawn Wang) has publicly discussed or demonstrated using. Curated by Magpie's editorial team from podcasts, posts, and public stacks.
Shawn Wang (swyx) edits Latent Space, the leading AI engineering podcast and newsletter, and runs the AI Engineer Summit. He has published swyx-stack pages on his personal site listing the exact tools he uses for writing, podcasting, and engineering.
swyx is a heavy Claude user. He's interviewed Anthropic engineers on Latent Space and frequently demos Claude's coding and reasoning workflows on X. His AI Engineer Summit programming positions Claude alongside ChatGPT as the canonical frontier-model defaults the AI engineering community is coalescing around.
Cursor is part of swyx's documented engineering stack. He's interviewed the Cursor team on Latent Space and posts his Cursor workflow on X. He treats Cursor as the canonical AI-coding inline editor and has covered Cursor releases as defining moments in the AI engineering community.
Long-running ChatGPT user. swyx has documented his prompt patterns and use cases across the Latent Space newsletter and his swyx-stack pages on swyx.io. He frames ChatGPT as the foundational consumer-AI default and uses it as the reference point for AI engineering benchmarks.
Perplexity appears in swyx's public stack lists and Latent Space recommendations. He's interviewed Aravind Srinivas on the podcast and treats Perplexity as the canonical AI-search reference for AI engineers, particularly for source-attributed research workflows.
swyx has covered GitHub Copilot's evolution from autocomplete to agent on Latent Space and discusses it as part of the AI engineering canon. He treats Copilot as the original AI-coding primitive that defined the category before Cursor and Claude Code took the frontier.
Last researched May 10, 2026
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