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What it is.
swyx started Latent Space in 2022, writing for the job he calls the AI Engineer. The about page says it crossed 200k subs and 10m viewers across all channels. The homepage lists over 194,000 subscribers.
Most editions are hour-long interviews with people inside labs and infrastructure companies, published with show notes. Written pieces cover engineering patterns, including one on ontologies as guardrails for probabilistic agents.
The community runs an LLM Paper Club with weekly Zoom meetings, and guests also appear at the AI Engineer Summit.
What you get.
- Long podcast interviews with engineers from frontier labs
- Written analysis of engineering patterns, like ontologies for agent guardrails
- Conference reporting, including trend recaps from AI Engineer World's Fair
- Show notes and timestamps alongside each episode
- An open door to the Discord and the weekly LLM Paper Club
OUR PICKS
Editions we'd start with.
5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World's Fair 2026 ↗
Names five patterns from the 2026 conference instead of listing announcements.
Ontologies Are So Back: Why AI Agents Are Reviving the Semantic Web ↗
On wrapping probabilistic agents in logical guardrails, worth reading if your agent wanders off task.
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How long are the episodes?
Who is it for?
What does an AI engineer do that an ML engineer doesn't?
Why do agent builders reach for ontologies?