Richard MacManus

Commentary by Richard MacManus

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• 2 October 2026 · Latent SpaceInside-Out AI: Rebuilding Airbnb Behind the Scenes and Across the Guest ExperienceAfter 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.
• 15 September 2026 · Latent SpaceCan 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.
• 1 September 2026 · Latent SpacePRs NOT Welcome: How Top AI Open Source Projects Are Managing Thousands of ContributorsVercel’s AI SDK, Astro, Flue and tldraw are replacing drive-by community PRs with software factories, where teams of agents apply fixes and features.
• 20 August 2026 · Latent SpaceThe /wayfinder Skill: Navigating the “Fog of War” of PlanningMatt Pocock tells us about his /wayfinder skill, for greenfield projects or for when the way forward is unclear.
• 18 August 2026 · Latent SpaceFrontier Model Cost and Open-Weights Popularity is Driving Demand for Model RoutingGlean CEO Arvind Jain explains why model routing helps control AI costs for organizations, and how human feedback loops at scale improve its routing systems.
• 15 August 2026 · Latent SpaceReact for Agents: Astro Creator Brings Hooks to his Meta-Harness, FlueFlue 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.
• 30 July 2026 · Latent SpaceOntologies Are So Back: Why AI Agents Are Reviving the Semantic WebAI engineers are rediscovering ontologies as a way to keep probabilistic agents inside deterministic boundaries.