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The 2025 AI Engineer Reading List

We picked 50 paper/models/blogs across 10 fields in AI Eng: LLMs, Benchmarks, Prompting, RAG, Agents, CodeGen, Vision, Voice, Diffusion, Finetuning. If…

Dec 27, 2024

Taste is your moat — with Dylan Field, Figma

Letting designers build with Figma Make, how Figma can be the context repository for aesthetic in the age of vibe coding, and why design is your only…

Oct 2, 2025

o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point)

How Ben Hylak turned from ol pro skeptic to fan by overcoming his skill issue.

Jan 12, 2025 • Ben Hylak and Latent.Space

The Rise of the AI Engineer

Emergent capabilities are creating an emerging job title beyond the Prompt Engineer.

Jun 30, 2023

GPT-5 Hands-On: Welcome to the Stone Age

We're excited to publish our hands-on review from the developer beta.

Aug 7, 2025 • alexis, Ben Hylak, and Latent.Space

Learnings from Anthropic's extraordinarily successful Launch and Workshop

Mar 10, 2025

God is hungry for Context: First thoughts on o3 pro

OpenAI dropped o3 pricing 80% today and launched o3-pro. Ben Hylak of Raindrop.ai returns with Alexis Gauba for the world's first early review.

Jun 10, 2025 • Ben Hylak and alexis

Andrej Karpathy on Software 3.0: Software in the Age of AI (UPDATED with Full Transcript)

Annotated notes on Andrej's talk at YC AI Startup School 2025

Jun 17, 2025 • Shawn swyx Wang

$2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst

H100s used to be $8/hr if you could get them. Now there's 7 different resale markets selling them under $2. What happened?

Oct 11, 2024 • Eugene Cheah

Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models.

Most expert work isn’t “produce a probable artifact”; it's "choose a good move considering other agents, guessing hidden state". LLMs default to…

Feb 7 • Ankit Maloo

Scaling without Slop

We've been quiet — announcing our 2026 plans! The State of Latent Space is here.

Jan 23 • swyx (Shawn)

"RAG is Dead, Context Engineering is King" — with Jeff Huber of Chroma

What actually matters in vector databases in 2025, why “modern search for AI” is different, and how to ship systems that don’t rot as context grows.

Aug 19, 2025