Delta Podcast Ep. 38: Swyx, Cognition Team and Latent Space Podcast Host
Nov 28, 2025
Shawn Wang (Swyx), founder of the Latent Space podcast and AI product builder now at Cognition. He talks about career pivots from finance to devrel and AI, launching Latent Space and the AI Engineer Summit, building small AI projects and joining Cognition, and his views on product, publishing research, and long-term impact.
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Use Public Writing To Transition Careers
- Do leverage your domain writing and public learning to transition into DevRel or creator roles.
- Shawn converted investment-style essays into tech essays and used public writing to build authority and opportunities.
Know Your DevRel Type And Optimize For It
- Identify which DevRel type you are: product, marketing, or community, and measure accordingly.
- Marketing DevRel needs social presence and workshops; product DevRel adds deep product feedback even if weaker at marketing.
Learn In Public To Accelerate Expertise
- Latent Space grew as Shawn's method to 'learn in public' about AI and to collect intellectual tokens from guests.
- Regular cadence and a co-host kept the podcast alive past the usual seven-episode death rate.