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Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus

Head of Editorial at Latent Space

Crossing the Threshold: How OpenAI and Anthropic Approach Autonomy and Safety in Financial Agents

Oct 14, 2026

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4 min read

Crossing the Threshold: How OpenAI and Anthropic Approach Autonomy and Safety in Financial Agents

At AI Engineer New York, frontier labs and financial firms explored how to give agents useful autonomy while keeping consequential decisions under control.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus
How Anthropic’s Dynamic Workflows Coordinate Claude Agents (Updated with video!)

Oct 12, 2026

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4 min read

How Anthropic’s Dynamic Workflows Coordinate Claude Agents (Updated with video!)

At AI Engineer New York, Anthropic drew on lessons from Unix and Linux to explain how agents can tackle bigger projects without overwhelming developers.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus
Building AI for Reliable Execution: Lessons From Industrial Robotics

Oct 10, 2026

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4 min read

Building AI for Reliable Execution: Lessons From Industrial Robotics

Inside Standard Bots’ AI stack, pretrained models learn factory tasks from demonstrations and improve through corrections from real deployments.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus
Can a Cloud-Native Harness Make Agents Reliable Beyond the Desktop?

Oct 7, 2026

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5 min read

Can a Cloud-Native Harness Make Agents Reliable Beyond the Desktop?

Kubernetes co-creators Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda aim to bring agent harnesses fully into the cloud.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus
Inside-Out AI: Rebuilding Airbnb Behind the Scenes and Across the Guest Experience

Oct 2, 2026

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6 min read

Inside-Out AI: Rebuilding Airbnb Behind the Scenes and Across the Guest Experience

After leading Meta’s Llama models, Ahmad Al-Dahle is now transforming Airbnb with AI — from how its teams develop products to how it serves guests.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus
Runway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds

Sep 24, 2026

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67 min read

Runway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds

GWM Worlds 2 uses persistent context and timed actions to steer a world model generating video and audio in real time.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus
Can Skills Learned in Games Transfer to Real-World Work?

Sep 15, 2026

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5 min read

Can Skills Learned in Games Transfer to Real-World Work?

Good Start Labs trained an AI on a railroad game — and one version improved at financial research. The difference was the training design.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus
PRs NOT Welcome: How Top AI Open Source Projects Are Managing Thousands of Contributors

Sep 1, 2026

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4 min read

PRs NOT Welcome: How Top AI Open Source Projects Are Managing Thousands of Contributors

Vercel’s AI SDK, Astro, Flue and tldraw are replacing drive-by community PRs with software factories, where teams of agents apply fixes and features.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus
Lovable CTO: The Future of SaaS Is Apps That Agents Can Use

Aug 26, 2026

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5 min read

Lovable CTO: The Future of SaaS Is Apps That Agents Can Use

Lovable is branching out from AI-powered web app creation and into MCP-powered ‘capabilities’. We talk to CTO Fabian Hedin.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus
The /wayfinder Skill: Navigating the “Fog of War” of Planning

Aug 20, 2026

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5 min read

The /wayfinder Skill: Navigating the “Fog of War” of Planning

Matt Pocock tells us about his /wayfinder skill, for greenfield projects or for when the way forward is unclear.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus
Frontier Model Cost and Open-Weights Popularity is Driving Demand for Model Routing

Aug 18, 2026

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5 min read

Frontier Model Cost and Open-Weights Popularity is Driving Demand for Model Routing

Glean CEO Arvind Jain explains why model routing helps control AI costs for organizations, and how human feedback loops at scale improve its routing systems.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus
React for Agents: Astro Creator Brings Hooks to his Meta-Harness, Flue

Aug 15, 2026

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5 min read

React for Agents: Astro Creator Brings Hooks to his Meta-Harness, Flue

Flue 2 takes its inspiration from React. Creator Fred Schott, of Astro fame, tells Latent Space why he added hooks and why agents are defined by their harnesses.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus
Ontologies Are So Back: Why AI Agents Are Reviving the Semantic Web

Jul 30, 2026

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3 min read

Ontologies Are So Back: Why AI Agents Are Reviving the Semantic Web

AI engineers are rediscovering ontologies as a way to keep probabilistic agents inside deterministic boundaries.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus
5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World’s Fair 2026

Jul 14, 2026

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9 min read

5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World’s Fair 2026

At this year's AIE World’s Fair, AI engineering entered a new phase: building systems around agents, rather than just building with agents.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus

AINews: Weekday Roundups

AIEWF Daily Dispatch: The great loops debate and the state of AI engineering

Jul 2, 2026

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4 min read

AIEWF Daily Dispatch: The great loops debate and the state of AI engineering

The AI Engineer World’s Fair ended with a debate about loops, a report on the state of AI engineering, and closing keynotes focused on what to build next.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus

AINews: Weekday Roundups

Vercel's Andrew Qu on why agents are a new kind of software

Jul 2, 2026

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4 min read

Vercel's Andrew Qu on why agents are a new kind of software

The Vercel Chief of Software explains how its agent framework, eve, was created — and why skills, sandboxes and agent-readable websites now matter.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus

AINews: Weekday Roundups

The website of the future may assemble itself for every visitor

Jul 2, 2026

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4 min read

The website of the future may assemble itself for every visitor

Adobe is experimenting with “agentic sites” that generate pages around an individual user’s intent. At AIEWF, we talked to Carlos Sanchez about the Web's future.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus

AINews: Weekday Roundups

Skill engineering and the case against one-shot AI design

Jul 2, 2026

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4 min read

Skill engineering and the case against one-shot AI design

Paul Bakaus talks to us about Impeccable, human judgment in a 'loopmaxxing' era, and why agents still need people to steer them.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus

AINews: Weekday Roundups

AIEWF Daily Dispatch: Autoresearch and the tension between AI and human agency

Jul 1, 2026

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3 min read

AIEWF Daily Dispatch: Autoresearch and the tension between AI and human agency

The software factory vision met resistance today from speakers defending human understanding and control.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus

AINews: Weekday Roundups

Autoresearch: The feedback loop behind self-improving agents

Jul 1, 2026

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6 min read

Autoresearch: The feedback loop behind self-improving agents

Introspection co-founder Roland Gavrilescu explains autoresearch, agent “recipes,” self-improving loops, and why humans remain central to the software factory.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus

AINews: Weekday Roundups

How Cursor deploys AI inside the enterprise

Jul 1, 2026

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5 min read

How Cursor deploys AI inside the enterprise

Cursor's Pauline Brunet explains how her team of Forward Deployed Engineers help organizations implement agents — essentially setting up software factories.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus

AINews: Weekday Roundups

Warp CEO Zach Lloyd on why software factories are the next phase of coding

Jul 1, 2026

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6 min read

Warp CEO Zach Lloyd on why software factories are the next phase of coding

Warp's founder thinks every major software project will soon run on an automated factory. He discusses why and how engineers should prepare for this shift.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus

AINews: Weekday Roundups

AIEWF Daily Dispatch: Loops, Software Factories & Forward Deployed Engineers

Jun 30, 2026

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4 min read

AIEWF Daily Dispatch: Loops, Software Factories & Forward Deployed Engineers

On Tuesday at the AI Engineer World's Fair, there was a lot of talk about loops, agent engineering, and the emergence of software factories. Also a hot topic: open models.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus

AINews: Weekday Roundups

Forward Deployed Engineers and the future of software engineering

Jun 30, 2026

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5 min read

Forward Deployed Engineers and the future of software engineering

Sierra's Natalie Meurer on why product engineers and forward deployed engineers are starting to converge.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus

AINews: Weekday Roundups

Ahmad Osman on why local AI is catching up

Jun 30, 2026

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5 min read

Ahmad Osman on why local AI is catching up

After two packed AIEWF workshops, Ahmad Osman makes the case that local AI is catching up fast — from laptops and phones to enterprise-grade infrastructure.

Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus