What's this about?
swyx noted that the Latent Space podcast has quietly overtaken established names like John Gruber, Cal Newport, and TBPN, and that the team is scaling into a full tech-media organization — hiring Richard MacManus (founder of ReadWriteWeb, longtime The New Stack writer) as Head of Editorial.
What exactly is "AI engineering" media?
It's press aimed at the people building with AI — practitioners wiring up agents, tools, and pipelines — rather than researchers or consumers. Latent Space carved out that niche early; growing into a media org is a bet that this audience is now big and durable enough to support one.
Why does it matter?
Where a fast-moving field's practitioners get their information shapes the field. A dedicated AI-engineering media org becoming a top podcast is a marker of how large the builder audience has grown — and this very digest's podcast section leans on it.