Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
Latent.Space
4 episodes
⚡️ The 2026 Software Factory Standard — Zach Lloyd, Warp.dev
- Zach Lloyd says most companies mistake heavy agent use for a software factory, which he defines as an agentic cloud system defined in code.
- Warp cuts its cost per PR from ~$80 to $15-20 and lifts throughput 40% without more reverts.
3 Nov · 35 min
Building Legal Agents When You Can't See the Data — Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora
- Legora builds legal agents without seeing customer data, so a six-person eval team approximates user behavior and tracks known failure modes.
- Legora's citation accuracy jumps from 70% to 99% with a model release, with no work from the company.
2 Nov · 1 h 7 min
Using Agents for Long-Horizon Financial Work — Aman Singh, Arca
- Arca, an AI-native wealth management firm that just raised $64m, says agents replace the work around its advisers, not the advisers themselves.
- Aman Singh says Arca moved from Gemini to OpenAI to Anthropic models, with Claude as primary, after Llama proved too slow and costly despite benchmarks.
31 Oct · 26 min
⚡ Building ChatGPT for Finance — Joseph Kim, OpenAI's Head of Financial Services
- OpenAI's Joseph Kim says the new ChatGPT for Financial Services layers firm-specific templates and data sources like S&P onto consumer ChatGPT tools, with Morgan Stanley and Evercore as design partners.
- OpenAI brought financial data in house after testing big-name MCP connectors that showed error rates of 40% or more, because controlling the experience end to end was the only reliable fix.
31 Oct · 28 min