Shawn Wang (Swyx)
5 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 19, 2025 by Shawn Wang · across every show →
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Mar 19, 2025 bearish
Swyx: AI pre-training datasets calcify software APIs against future changes
“Like one tricky thing, I feel like it's almost like AI calcifies your API. The cost of switching APIs is so high because it's, you don't know what the hell is in those, the data set. You're not going to reach out to every model lab and like ask them to update …”
Jul 28, 2026
Swyx: Generated Playable 3D Board Game in ChatGPT Using 1.7B Tokens
“So over the weekend, I took like, 30 photos and just threw it into ChatGPT. 1.7 billion tokens later, out comes this site with a fully playable thing with three D block placement and everything because it requires physical blocks and I needed friends to train …”
Jul 28, 2026 positive
Jul 28, 2026 positive
Aug 3, 2026 bullish
Custom $50B ASICs become economically rational for $500B AI training runs
“If you have a trillion dollar or five hundred billion dollar training run, then take fifty billion of that and make an ASIC. Like, it's fine. Like you will get more than 10% efficiency from the ASIC. And like, that makes sense.”