Richard MacManus
@ricmac
Head of editorial at / @latentspacepod
Founded ReadWriteWeb (2003–2012)
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Site migrations never get any easier — I remember some tough ones back in the Movable Type days at ReadWriteWeb. We've just moved from Substack over to Beehiiv at Latent Space, and also redesigned our site. Lots still to do (and fix), but check it out:
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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. In this @latentspacepod interview, Ahmad tells me what an "AI-native company" looks like at scale!
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Weekend project, getting AEO-pilled. Also a good test (for me) of Claude Projects. Have been meaning to update Eleventy and do a few other redesign tasks on which tbh has been rather neglected this year.
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Model routing is hot news (see Stripe / OpenRouter). It's also increasingly important in enterprises. In my latest @latentspacepod article, I talk to @glean CEO @jainarvind about how model routing helps control AI costs for organizations.
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I'm loving working for @latentspacepod and I'm also learning new tricks (ref old dogs and all that). @swyx has been teaching me his method of doing developer diagrams — graphics that are good enough to be added to the official documentation of a project!
Of course I'm not at his level yet, but I toiled for several hours today to come up with this diagram of Flue. The idea was to get across in one diagram how Flue 1 evolved into Flue 2. I hope it does the job (🙏 @FredKSchott).
Just to be clear, I used Claude Design as the final tool for this diagram, but let me tell you there were many loops involved! And I used a few other tools to help get there, e.g. (a @cognition project — "Deep Research for GitHub").
This is the full post:
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