AI Engineer
5 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Aug 31, 2023 by Eugene Cheah · said 18 times in 12 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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2026 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Senior Dev: This "Grill Me" Prompt Is Going Viral Among Top Engineers
- Orbs: Shifting Coding to Cloud — Quinn Slack, Amp Code
- Why AI Agents Don't Actually Understand You — Danielle Perszyk, Amazon AGI Lab
- Podcast Crossover: AIE, AGI, frontier lab strategy with @matthew_berman and @swyxtv
- ⚡️ How to turn Documents into Knowledge: Graphs in Modern AI — Emil Eifrem, CEO Neo4J
- Extreme Harness Engineering: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code or review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI
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2025 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- ⚡️Launching AI Diplomacy: the hardest LLM Game Benchmark yet - Alex Duffy
- Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI
- Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes
- Context Engineering for Agents - Lance Martin, LangChain
- Long Live Context Engineering - with Jeff Huber of Chroma
- Sleep-Time Compute — Letta AI (Charles Packer, Charlie Snell, Kevin Lin)
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Aug 31, 2023
Cheah: AI Engineers Do Not Need ML Math to Build Products
“Frankly, for an AI engineer, you don't need it. You, your main thing that you needed to do was to, frankly, just play around with ChatGPT, or all the alternatives, be aware of the alternatives, because be very mercenary, swap out to Cloudia if it's better for …”
Jun 21, 2024
Jun 21, 2024
Brady: Effective AI engineers need SWE fundamentals, ML curiosity, and a fault-first mindset
“The three things that we say are most important for a highly effective AI engineer first of all, conventional software engineering skills, which is kind of a given, but definitely worth mentioning. The second thing is a curiosity and enthusiasm for machine lea…”
Jul 10, 2026 bullish
Swyx: AI engineers have permanent job security closing model capability overhangs
“AI engineer exists in the white surface area between the peak capability and deploying it everywhere else, right? So the more model research peaks and spikes capabilities in one domain, but it's not evenly distributed in all products yet, that's where engineer…”