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AI Engineer World's Fair 2025

The AI Engineer World's Fair conference put on by Swyx and Ben Dunphy is the highest signal to noise you'll find in the sea of AI hype we are all drowning in these days. If you're not familiar with Swyx's other publications, also check out Latent Space and AI News.

I'm fortunate to have attended all three of the conferences in San Francisco and the inaugural event in New York City earlier this year in February. Here are some of my favorite talks, and observations from the latest event held last week in San Francisco.

OpenRouter Rankings

Google has 3 models in the top 5 on OpenRouter this week!

Is All AI Powered Software Development Vibe Coding?

There's a lot of strong opinions on both sides when it comes to the newly coined term "Vibe Coding". I prefer to avoid all the drama. I just like to build software. I think it's important not to throw out the baby with the bathwater. So, vibe coding is a thing now. Ok then, what does AI powered software engineering look like? How is it different from vibe coding?

I think it all comes down to autonomy. First, let's take a look back at the last 2 years of my AI powered software development journey.

Vibe Coding

Obligatory AI generated image of vibe coding