Heavy Claude user; has interviewed Anthropic engineers on Latent Space and frequently demos Claude's coding and reasoning workflows on X.
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swyx (Shawn Wang)'s AI stack.
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.
Tools swyx has publicly discussed.
- Claude4.7DirectLLM chatbot
- Cursor4.9DirectCoding
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.
- ChatGPT4.9DirectLLM chatbot
Long-running ChatGPT user; has documented his prompt patterns and use cases across the Latent Space newsletter.
- Perplexity3.7DirectLLM chatbot
Perplexity appears in swyx's public stack lists and Latent Space recommendations. Has interviewed Aravind Srinivas on the podcast.
- GitHub Copilot4.2DirectCoding
Has covered GitHub Copilot's evolution from autocomplete to agent on Latent Space and discusses it as part of the AI engineering canon.
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Direct: a video, podcast, post, or essay where swyx names the tool. Implied: their company's public stack, repeated adjacency, or job ads. We don't list guesses. See how Magpie scores tools.
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