⚡ Behind Latent Space: from AI Substack to the first @aiDotEngineer in China 🇨🇳
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmDLDy3ZSNE
This time @Ninggao88 of Linkloud turns the mic around: asking @swyx how LS started, why “AI Engineering" needed a name, and what’s different about the builder community in China.
We also get into Kill My SaaS: agents could pass the entry checks, but choosing software we’d actually use took judgment about the organizer’s workflow. That gap between generating software and making a good product runs through the conversation, from conference tools to Legora and Thinking Machines.
A special one for longtime listeners, with the original essays, demos and Chinese community posts on screen.
Chapters on YouTube:
0:00 AIEi Shanghai
2:31 Cold open
3:28 The conversation with Galen
8:01 Learn in Public
10:54 How Latent Space started
13:05 The idea for AI Engineer
25:10 The conference as a dataset
29:57 Kill My SaaS
39:31 What the contest judge measured
46:45 Jev and System One models
52:49 Writing and founder stories
1:02:13 Legora and product taste
1:03:29 OpenClaw adoption in China
1:07:35 Thinking Machines and interaction models
1:10:02 Reading and listening recommendations