Swix (Shawn Wang)

“I'm quickly developing an opinion, by the way, that I think all early stage startups should not have a marketing site. Your .com should just be your app.”

“We use structured outputs for AI news. I use Instructor and I ripped it out and I think it, I saved 20 lines of code, but more importantly, it was like, we cut it by 55% of API costs based on what I measured because of all we saved on the retries.”

“We were sort of the first to combine like social data with quantitative trading. And I think I think now it's very common”

“Every engineer is just gonna own more code. Period. And be parachuted in and be expected to ramp up and be productive and also fix bugs. And if you're on, you know, pager duty or whatever to just because I mean, everyone's going to try to be more efficient and…”

“All workloads are hybrid. Like, you know like you want the semantic, you want the text, you want the regex, you want SQL. I don't know. But like, it's silly to like be all in on like one particular query pattern.”

“Basically, I think like the way that people ease into cloud co-work is like take a knowledge work task that you would normally be clicking around for, and then try to turn, turn that. And then you do the, okay, well, what if you went further? Okay. And then wh…”

“One observation I have, this kind of massive thesis I've been pursuing, which is what I've been calling an agent lab. Where you're sort of different than a model lab in the sense that you never train your own models, but you are the router evaluation layer, su…”