# swyx says AI Engineer YouTube reaches 2M monthly unique engineers after three years

> Original title: after 3 years of building from nothing, we are now serving 2M monthly unique engineers on aie youtube.

- Source: swyx
- Published: 2026-11-02T18:24:30.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/tbgydt3neinwpmwg9acbphjle
- Original: https://x.com/swyx/status/2117321973080760644

## Summary

swyx says the AI Engineer YouTube channel now serves 2M monthly unique engineers after three years of building. The channel went from its first 100k subscribers in three years to the next 100k in about 1.2 months. swyx asks viewers to subscribe to help reach 1M subscribers.

## Post

after 3 years of building from nothing, we are now serving 2M monthly unique engineers on aie youtube. 

(76% not subscribed lol. idk if it matters but pls subscribe! we need to keep up momentum to cross 1M subs roughly around https://aie.codes it looks like)

![](https://badinfluence.news/api/img-proxy?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FHWI8lWzaEAAiBPY.jpg&mode=thumb&exp=1793836800&sig=f90a155e52e6b7b3)

## Quoted post @swyx

> In Jan this year I called my content strategy shot: "Scaling without Slop". 
> 
> It's finally starting to work. It took us 3 years to reach our first 100k on youtube. It only took 1.2 months for the next 100k. Similar other metrics on AEO/SEO/subscriber traction and have a lot of New Media ideas that I'm excited to pursue.
> 
> officially giving notice of the next phase of Latent Space, AINews, and what the rest of swyx inc has been cooking below

https://x.com/swyx/status/2103361254433993165