Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever

Taste is your Moat (Dylan Field of Figma)

In this episode of the Latent Space Podcast, Alessio interviews Dylan Field, the CEO of Figma, at the Figma office. They discuss the evolution of Figma, from its initial mission of bridging imagination and reality for designers to its current expansion with Figma Make, targeting a broader audience. Field shares his ear...

Taste is your Moat (Dylan Field of Figma)

Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes

In this episode of the Latent Space Podcast, Alessio hosts Quinn Slack (CEO of Sourcegraph) and Thorsten Ball (lead engineer of Amp) to discuss the evolution from Cody to Amp, Sourcegraph's new AI coding agent. They delve into the reasons behind rebranding, the technical differences between Cody and Amp, and the rapid ...

Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes

Context Engineering for Agents - Lance Martin, LangChain

In this episode of the Latent Space Podcast, Alessio and Swyx host Lance Martin to discuss context engineering in AI agents. They explore the distinctions between prompt engineering and context engineering, emphasizing the challenges of managing context from tool calls in agents. The conversation covers strategies such...

Context Engineering for Agents - Lance Martin, LangChain

A Technical History of Generative Media

In this episode of the Latent Space Podcast, Alessio and Swyx host Gorkem and Batuhan from Fal. They discuss Fal's journey from a Python runtime in the cloud to a generative media platform, focusing on image, video, and audio model inference. They delve into the company's pivot to specializing in diffusion and inferenc...

Better Data is All You Need — Ari Morcos, Datology

In this episode of the Latent Space Podcast, Alessio and Swyx interview Ari Morcos, CEO and co-founder of Datology, about data curation in machine learning. Ari discusses Datology's mission to improve data curation, enabling faster, better, and smaller model training. He shares his background in neuroscience and his tr...

Better Data is All You Need — Ari Morcos, Datology

Long Live Context Engineering - with Jeff Huber of Chroma

In this episode of the Latent Space Podcast, Jeff Huber, founder and CEO of Chroma, discusses the journey of building Chroma, a retrieval engine for AI applications, and its focus on bridging the gap between AI demos and production-ready systems. Huber emphasizes Chroma's commitment to developer experience, highlightin...

Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI

In this episode of the Latent Space Podcast, Alessio and swyx interview Greg Brockman from OpenAI about the recent releases of GPT-5 and GPT-OSS. Brockman discusses the development of reasoning in AI models, the shift towards online learning, and the importance of compute in AI advancement. The conversation covers the ...

The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)

In this episode of the Latent Space Podcast, Alessio and Swyx host Nathan Lambert from AI2 to discuss recent advancements and challenges in AI, particularly focusing on reasoning models, reinforcement learning, and tool use. They delve into topics such as the Tulu project, RLVR (Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable R...

The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)

🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)

This Latent Space podcast episode chronicles the journey of Windsurf, from its early days as ExaFunction to its acquisition by Cognition, featuring insights from past interviews with key figures like Varun Mohan and a recent discussion with Scott Wu (Cognition CEO) and Jeff Wang (Windsurf CEO). The conversation explore...

AI is Eating Search

In this episode of the Latent Space Podcast, Alessio and Swift interview Robert McCloy from Scrunch AI about the evolving landscape of AI search engines and their impact on businesses. Robert discusses the genesis of Scrunch AI, which focuses on monitoring how AI platforms interact with and represent businesses online....

AI is Eating Search

The Future of Notebooks - with Akshay Agrawal of Marimo

In this Latent Space lightning podcast, Alessio interviews Akshay Agrawal from Marimo, an open-source notebook for Python designed for AI and data work. Akshay details Marimo's reactive execution and built-in UI elements, which allow for new ways of interacting with data and AI models. He highlights Marimo's ability to...

Cline: the open source coding agent that doesn't cut costs

In this episode of the Latent Space Podcast, Alessio and Wix interview Pash and Saoud from Cline, an open-source coding agent that functions as a VS Code extension, with upcoming support for JetBrains, NeoVim, and CLI. The discussion covers Cline's "plan and act" paradigm, its architecture, and its use of Machine Commu...

Cline: the open source coding agent that doesn't cut costs