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Today's my first day in a new role: Head of Editorial at Latent Space (@latentspacepod).
From ReadWriteWeb to The New Stack, I've always loved being at the cutting edge of tech x media. So I'm thrilled to join @swyx & his team. We have big plans! latent.space
From ReadWriteWeb to The New Stack, I've always loved being at the cutting edge of tech x media. So I'm thrilled to join @swyx & his team. We have big plans! latent.space
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Love this detail from The AGI Chronicles book. Titan would’ve been a cool name, especially compared to the space and story metaphors of OpenAI and Anthropic (“I’m going to summon Titan now!”). But Gemini does neatly sum up the merger of DeepMind & Google Brain.
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Richard MacManus retweeted
AIE 2026 Shanghai is over. I walked away feeling inspired and encouraged by the talks.
My personal favorite was @ryolu_ 's . It made me think about the relationship between myself and my craft.
As a developer, though, I connected more with the @Ronny_MiniMax 's talk — it’s ally working on right now. It pushed me to rethink the relationship between developers, the actual development tasks, AI agents, and the product.
I’ve published the recordings from both days on this site: aie-26-shanghai.lh-love.top
You can listen to them with subtitles, or just talk to your agent about the topics you care about. There’s also an MCP server built in, so your agent can help surface what’s most relevant to you.
Really nice to meet so many of you offline. What a wonderful two days.
My personal favorite was @ryolu_ 's . It made me think about the relationship between myself and my craft.
As a developer, though, I connected more with the @Ronny_MiniMax 's talk — it’s ally working on right now. It pushed me to rethink the relationship between developers, the actual development tasks, AI agents, and the product.
I’ve published the recordings from both days on this site: aie-26-shanghai.lh-love.top
You can listen to them with subtitles, or just talk to your agent about the topics you care about. There’s also an MCP server built in, so your agent can help surface what’s most relevant to you.
Really nice to meet so many of you offline. What a wonderful two days.
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Richard MacManus retweeted
the AI industry is getting a little too excited about the idea of agents doing everything for us imo
i don’t want an AI to book my vacation. i want it to find the incredible little hotel i’d never discover on my own
i don’t need it to buy my groceries. i want it to fill my cart with everything i usually order so i can review it and check out
the people building agents seem strangely obsessed with removing the human from the equation when there’s still so much opportunity to make the human better at what they actually want to do
i don’t want an AI to book my vacation. i want it to find the incredible little hotel i’d never discover on my own
i don’t need it to buy my groceries. i want it to fill my cart with everything i usually order so i can review it and check out
the people building agents seem strangely obsessed with removing the human from the equation when there’s still so much opportunity to make the human better at what they actually want to do
Interesting bits from Brian’s Airbnb earnings call about AI agents and consumer behavior:
— Airbnb gets ~500k bookings a day
— ”very non-material” traffic from Muse/Instinct
— says people *want* to browse: average user looks at dozens of listings and 25+ photos
— 90% of users traffic comes between 9 to 5 when people are at work (using Airbnb as escapism)
— 80% of travels say they like doing their own travel research
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“Søren Kierkegaard wrote that…”
Memory is what allows Claude to learn from experience. In a new Engineering Blog post, we share how “dreaming” helps Claude organize what it’s learned, correct its mistakes, and find what it needs more easily the next time. anthropic.com/research/compo…
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Richard MacManus retweeted
Great photo from last night’s show in Rome but, hold up, is he now wearing TWO hoods??
h/t @StillOnTheRoad_
h/t @StillOnTheRoad_
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RT @aiDotEngineer: we have dubbed and translated @ryolu_'s AI Engineer Shanghai talk to English — with @ElevenLabs audio voice cloning, and…
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Richard MacManus retweeted
how we’re building decision models at @liquidai
(aka: “how we reverse-engineered Jev”)
谢谢 @aiDotEngineer shanghai for having me.
here is the thread version of my talk 🧵
(aka: “how we reverse-engineered Jev”)
谢谢 @aiDotEngineer shanghai for having me.
here is the thread version of my talk 🧵
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Richard MacManus retweeted
@liu8in of @HyperFrames_ gave an amazing talk at @aiDotEngineer today, and I enjoyed followup discussions with Bin, @WaterrrMiao and @wenbozhu0328
Bin's talk: HTML is all your agents need.
Quick highlights:
1. Exploit what the model is good at
The team used to ask agents to do video editing, but performance wasn't good. Instead of harnessing the LLM to write JSON with higher accuracy, they switched to HTML, which the agents are really good at writing.
2. Exploit what models will get better at
Hyperframes rode the wave of the popularity of Opus 5.5. As Opus 5.5 got better at video editing, even more people started to use Hyperframes, as it serves as the "infrastructure" piece.
It's a perfect example of "building a product for the model capability of 3 months into the future" that Boris talks about
3. Use videos more
Use videos as a way of expression & communication, as they have a much higher information density than pure text.
Bin's talk: HTML is all your agents need.
Quick highlights:
1. Exploit what the model is good at
The team used to ask agents to do video editing, but performance wasn't good. Instead of harnessing the LLM to write JSON with higher accuracy, they switched to HTML, which the agents are really good at writing.
2. Exploit what models will get better at
Hyperframes rode the wave of the popularity of Opus 5.5. As Opus 5.5 got better at video editing, even more people started to use Hyperframes, as it serves as the "infrastructure" piece.
It's a perfect example of "building a product for the model capability of 3 months into the future" that Boris talks about
3. Use videos more
Use videos as a way of expression & communication, as they have a much higher information density than pure text.
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Richard MacManus retweeted
rich personal websites possibly with your first & last name domain or even with an identity like signull will matter a lot more because when personal agents browse the internet for a variety of use cases, that context will be highly ranked.
first & last name domains + a rich website will be the new facebook profile. imagine a match maker agent finding you because you’re single, or a job search agent because you’re looking for a gig, or an agent that finds you ppl to play tennis with, etc.
discoverability for agents will be huge & networks like insta & linkedin will have not have huge incentives to open this up for other agents than their own, so it’ll matter again a lot more.
first & last name domains + a rich website will be the new facebook profile. imagine a match maker agent finding you because you’re single, or a job search agent because you’re looking for a gig, or an agent that finds you ppl to play tennis with, etc.
discoverability for agents will be huge & networks like insta & linkedin will have not have huge incentives to open this up for other agents than their own, so it’ll matter again a lot more.
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Richard MacManus retweeted
gave a talk at @aiDotEngineer shanghai about about a question i keep coming back to: when we can make anything, do we still know what we want?
i want tools that help us find our own answers, not skip the process of forming them. not just more output, but more room to think, care, and make together.
will share more soon!
i want tools that help us find our own answers, not skip the process of forming them. not just more output, but more room to think, care, and make together.
will share more soon!
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Thought-provoking presentation: "when we can do anything, do we still know what we want to do?"
So here it is — @ryolu_ 's talk at @aiDotEngineer 2026 Shanghai.
I shot it handheld on a Xiaomi 15 Ultra, so there's some shake; I fixed as much of it as I could in CapCut. Handheld footage just isn't going to be sharp or steady.
Still, it's the best talk I saw on day 1 of AIE posting a text summary. Watch for yourself.
I missed the first minute or so. Ryo opens with the excitement of what AI makes possible, and how seeing what others are building can quickly turn that excitement into anxiety about falling behind.
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Cloud is still a mess on both ChatGPT and Claude. I started a new chat today to create an intranet site for work, and for some reason the chat started in the cloud. But I had a few of these kinds of responses, so had to switch back to desktop (where it worked first time!)
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Richard MacManus retweeted
As part of the most insane AIE lineup to end 2026, we're also excited to announce our final track theme:
*Raising your Ambition*
featuring @jxnlco, @trq212, @jarredsumner, @sqs, @mitsuhiko, @dexhorthy, @BuiltByJustin (StrongDM Dark Factory)
and a special keynote from @echelon ance since cloning the entire Adobe suite last month... and talking about how and what's next!
gathering 1000 of the top agentic engineers in person in SF and livestreamed to 2M MAU online on youtube. join here: aie.codes <- see you in SF!
*Raising your Ambition*
featuring @jxnlco, @trq212, @jarredsumner, @sqs, @mitsuhiko, @dexhorthy, @BuiltByJustin (StrongDM Dark Factory)
and a special keynote from @echelon ance since cloning the entire Adobe suite last month... and talking about how and what's next!
gathering 1000 of the top agentic engineers in person in SF and livestreamed to 2M MAU online on youtube. join here: aie.codes <- see you in SF!
We're excited to announce our AI Engineer Code Summit speaker lineup!
→ ai.engineer/code
VP Gemini Post-Training Lead, @GoogleDeepMind
CEO, @e2b
CTO, @ExaAILabs
CEO, @warpdotdev
CEO, @Aviator_co_
CEO, @fivetran
CTO, @Lovable
CTO, @iamovercut
CTO, @earendilworks (Pi)
CEO, @diffusionio
CPO, @cognition
CTO, @GoodfireAI
MTS, @AnthropicAI
CTO, @composio
GPM, @Cloudflare
MTS, @databricks
CEO, @AmpCode
Co-Founder, @gimletlabs
CEO, @mixedbreadai
CEO, @humanlayer_dev
Head of AI, @MonacoGTM
Lecturer, @UCBerkeley
Principal Engineer, @SpaceXSI
CEO, @TypeSafeAI (Jev)
Founder, Bun at Anthropic
VP Product, @reflection_ai
Research Lead, Reflection AI
Staff Software Engineer, @SonarSource
Principal Software Engineer, @tryramp
Senior Engineering Manager, @netflix
Forward Deployed Engineer, @baseten
Also joining us:
@kevinhou22 — Google DeepMind Antigravity
@Steve_Yegge — Creator of Beads & Gas Town
@lucasmeijer — AgentsInTheCloud.com
@kentcdodds — Software Engineer & Educator
@trq212 — Independent
@simonw — Django, Pelicans, Lethal Trifecta
Presented by Google DeepMind.
November 10–12 in San Francisco.
Attendance is by application.
→ ai.engineer/code
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Richard MacManus retweeted
Babe, wake up. (After an extra hour of sleep)
New @karpathy viebcoding meta just dropped.
- Claude Code Desktop
- Opus 5.5 Medium
- Talk to Claude for everything
New @karpathy viebcoding meta just dropped.
- Claude Code Desktop
- Opus 5.5 Medium
- Talk to Claude for everything
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Nice one! I think the AI community needs more of this content and less about “AI civilizations”. Now subscribed to his podcast.
The master biographer reflects at 91. The Robert Caro interview.
0:00:00 – How Caro gets people to talk
0:05:03 – Does America need a little more Moses today?
0:12:42 – Moses the young idealist
0:17:57 – Watching Moses lose power
0:24:01 – Did Moses realize he was changing?
ng the Great Depression
0:32:51 – The threats and promises of Lyndon Johnson
0:36:08 – Could Kennedy have passed Johnson’s laws?
0:41:00 – Getting a book down to one sentence
0:46:21 – All the material that never made it into the books
0:52:59 – Loneliness
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Richard MacManus retweeted
I wrote about this in AINews last night but basically aie.codes is gathering the top 1000 AI Engineers to 1) accurately represent the 2026 SOTA in AI x Code, 2) preview 2027.
So proud to have gathered the best collection of invited attendees, speakers and sponsors emes that have defined this year:
So proud to have gathered the best collection of invited attendees, speakers and sponsors emes that have defined this year:
hiding amongst the greats. see you at ai.engineer/code/2026
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Richard MacManus retweeted
the most important metric for any VC is obviously how cool their website looks
so here are the top 10 VC websites:
1. paradigm.xyz (@paradigm)
2. slow.co (@slow)
3. blueyard.com (@blueyard)
4. airstreet.com (@airstreet)
5. 8vc.com (@8vc)
6. southparkcommons.com (@spc)
7. betaworks.com (@betaworks)
8. benchmark.com (@benchmark)
9. pillar.vc (@pillar_vc)
10. hummingbird.vc (@HummingbirdVC)
honourable mention to @BeginVC, because it's our ranking and we're obviously the most objective judges in the world
who did we miss?
so here are the top 10 VC websites:
1. paradigm.xyz (@paradigm)
2. slow.co (@slow)
3. blueyard.com (@blueyard)
4. airstreet.com (@airstreet)
5. 8vc.com (@8vc)
6. southparkcommons.com (@spc)
7. betaworks.com (@betaworks)
8. benchmark.com (@benchmark)
9. pillar.vc (@pillar_vc)
10. hummingbird.vc (@HummingbirdVC)
honourable mention to @BeginVC, because it's our ranking and we're obviously the most objective judges in the world
who did we miss?
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My latest article on @latentspacepod explores "visual reasoning", and whether @ElorianAI's new model Glimpse performs better at picking decoys (a key test for visual thinking) than frontier models. Thanks @AndrewDai for the interview. latent.space/p/elorian/
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