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Agents for Everything Else — swyx
Takeaway
Agents are leaving the IDE — running a real $9M business with 9 people via coding agents proves they can take over ops work too.
Summary
- AI Engineer conference is run by 9 full-time people generating >$9M revenue — concrete 'tiny teams' proof: more $M in revenue than employees.
- Swyx's three prior keynote arcs: productivity gain → falling cost (~100x per 12-18mo) → tiny teams; this year extends to 'agents for everything else' (non-coding work).
- Walks through running the conference with Devin and other coding agents — contracted designer is now full-time after AI-augmented workflow took over.
- Stack went from non-AI (Figma, React, Supabase, Tito, Google Sheets) to agent-augmented operations across ops/design/eng.
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Original description
How we run AI Engineer with Agents like Cognition's Devin and Town Assistant Speaker info: - x.com/swyx - github.com/swyxio