Search Latent Space

Find your next rabbit hole.

Articles, conversations, profiles, and grounded writeups.

?
Search tips

Keyword matches words; semantic matches meaning and exact titles or names; hybrid combines both. In keyword mode, use quotation marks for exact phrases. Author matches published credits. Year applies to posts; wiki entries have no author or publication year. You can also use author:"Ada" or type:podcast in non-regex searches.

Reset filters

Select Apply filters to update results.

281 results · Filters applied

Shipping agents means building the application around them

Durable workflows, streaming interfaces, operational context, and external security controls turn an agent loop into a usable application.

Writeup · Date unavailable
Writeup——
Shopify’s AI Phase Transition: What Happens After Code Gets Cheap

Shared experiments, deliberate code review, simulated shoppers and specialized models show what it takes to turn abundant generation into useful work.

Writeup · Date unavailable
Writeup——
Simulation Fidelity and GPU Efficiency — Part 3 of 3

Part 3 of 3 examines why simulated materials data can miss experimental needs, how training accommodates laboratory timescales, and why better GPU utilization could free money for lab work.

Writeup · Date unavailable
Writeup——
Simulation’s scaling bet: learning how people actually behave

Human simulation combines personal histories, observed choices, and controlled experiments to model how people respond—and help decision makers explore what to do next.

Writeup · Date unavailable
Writeup——
Software 3.0 and the Rise of the AI Engineer

Foundation models let developers begin with trained capabilities, then build the data connections, infrastructure and interfaces that make them useful. A 2023 view of the engineering role emerging around that change.

Writeup · Date unavailable
Writeup——
Speak: Building an AI Tutor Around the Learner

Fast speaking drills, adaptive curricula, and patient turn detection show what it takes to turn capable models into a language tutor.

Writeup · Date unavailable
Writeup——
Steering Voice, Testing Hearing — Part 3 of 3

Part 3 of the ChatGPT voice preview tests the gap between conversational control and precise audio behavior: recognizing an illusion, producing a tuning note, copying pitch, and thinking before speaking.

Writeup · Date unavailable
Writeup——
Steve Yegge’s Vibe Coding Manifesto: From Writing Code to Coordinating Agents

Coding agents move the work toward asking questions, supervising execution, and integrating changes. The promise comes with a learning curve—and a bottleneck that more code cannot solve.

Writeup · Date unavailable
Writeup——
Structured Outputs and the Work of Making an AI API Reliable — Part 1 of 3

Part 1 follows the path from production outages to dependable model interfaces: constrained decoding, tool execution, refusals, schema design, evaluation, and model selection.

Writeup · Date unavailable
Writeup——
Summer 2023: From Model Releases to Working AI Systems

Code execution, open weights and long context expanded what developers could build. Evaluation, deployment control and reliable behavior determined whether those capabilities could become useful products.

Writeup · Date unavailable
Writeup——
Synthetic data and the case for smaller models

How generated textbooks, rewritten web pages and synthetic labels support capable models that cost less to run and can stay on the device.

Writeup · Date unavailable
Writeup——
Taste Is Your Moat: Figma’s Case for Design After Code Generation

AI can generate a starting interface. Choosing a direction, making its behavior coherent, and developing a distinctive product still demand design judgment.

Writeup · Date unavailable
Writeup——
Your place in Latent Space

Join Latent Space.

Sign in with Google, or get the newsletter by email.

Loading Google sign-in…

or subscribe by email

Free. Change your preferences or unsubscribe any time.