Why Agent Engineering — swyx

Swyx explains why we are all in on Agent Engineering in 2025. Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SWoBIvTQu__uNEvSawmNcROiUx-n86O_fP0arZcTGb8/edit?usp=sharing Recorded live at the Agent Engineering Session Day from the AI Engineer Summit 2025 in New York. Learn more at https://ai.engineer and purchase tickets to our next event, the AI Engineer World's Fair, in SF June 3 - 5 here: https://ti.to/software-3/ai-engineer-worlds-fair-2025 About swyx swyx (Shawn Wang) is Editor of Latent.Space. As a developer experience leader and angel investor, swyx led developer tooling at AWS, Two Sigma, and three devtool unicorns (Netlify, Temporal, Airbyte). He is also the founder of Smol AI, the LLM data pipeline company that produces AI News, the widely-read AI industry newsletter that was 99% created by customizable research agents.