The New Stack has been building out its coverage of AI — large language models, AI agents, and all the latest innovations that have impact on the work of developers and engineers — for the past few years. Today, we will be joined by a new member of our team, who will steer that coverage.
Frederic Lardinois is TNS’s new senior editor for AI. If you’ve been in the tech industry over the last 17 years, you’re probably familiar with his work — at his most recent post, as senior enterprise editor at TechCrunch, as the founder of the SiliconFilter newsletter, or as a writer for ReadWriteWeb.
“TNS already does a great job covering AI, especially how it is reshaping the day-to-day work of developers,” Frederic told me in an email interview Friday. “AI now touches every stage of the software life cycle, from idea to deployment and beyond, and enterprises are rapidly going from experimenting with AI to putting it into production.
“There is a real opportunity here to cover what I believe is going to be the stack that the next generation of software will be built upon. In practical terms, I think this means I can help TNS expand its coverage of, for example, how the underlying models are built and who is building them, the growing ecosystems around many of these tools and how AI will fundamentally alter how we think about software development.
He sees a lot of rich territory to mine in the AI space and looks forward to sharing it with New Stack readers.
“Agents are obviously hot right now and may, among many other things, finally realize some of the promises of what the robotic process automation companies tried to sell many years ago,” he wrote. “I’m also really interested in how developers are using smaller, more specialized models to extend their services.
“There’s also the question of how, in the long run, on-device AI chips will change the equation for the cloud-based AI services. In addition, I also think the discussion about open source models is far from over.
The ReadWriteWeb Gang Reunited
Frederic will help us build upon the work of TNS Senior Editor Richard MacManus, who has developed our AI coverage over the last few years. Richard will also continue to help us track the trends and innovations in AI, since it’s a big and rapidly expanding space.
He founded ReadWriteWeb, and expressed excitement about reuniting with a former RWW staff member.
“Frederic worked for me at ReadWriteWeb from 2008-2010 and he was one of our leading writers during that time,” said Richard. “So I’m thrilled to see he will be joining The New Stack to help extend our AI coverage. That makes three RWW alumni on the core editorial team, including myself and TNS founder Alex Williams!”
Alex, who is also TNS’s publisher, highlighted the capabilities Frederic would bring to the TNS audience.
“Frederic will offer our readers deeper explanation and analysis of at-scale development, deployment and management,” he said. “These are concepts that resonate deeply in the developer community, all the more complex with the advent of LLMs, AI agents and the host of requirements needed to deploy models for the enterprise.
“We heartily welcome Frederic as our senior editor for AI at The New Stack. He’s one of the best in the business. It’s great to work with him again, following his long and successful run as a senior editor at TechCrunch.”
Our new team member is a longtime TNS reader. “I’ve been following the site since day one — and, in some ways, even before that given, that Alex and I worked together at ReadWriteWeb and TechCrunch,” Frederic told me. “There’s a depth and knowledge here that’s unsurpassed in the industry. It also helps, of course, that I got to meet quite a few TNS team members over the years, at events all around the world.”
In the Air and On the Go
Frederic joins our all-remote staff from his home in Portland, Ore. An avid traveler and hiker, he also acquired the obligatory nerdy pandemic hobby: in his case, collecting custom keyboards.
And he’s a licensed pilot.
“Like so many in tech, I always had a fascination with planes,” he wrote. “After dreaming about it for years, I started taking lessons at a small private airport near Portland in late 2019 and had my first solo flight right before Christmas. Then Covid hit and shut everything down, but I passed my checkride — with masks on‚ in July.
“Ever since, I’ve been trying to fly the experimental plane I helped build as part of our flying club, as often as my schedule allows.”
Frederic will be on the go right from the start at TNS, covering the NVIDIA GTC conference for us. Check out his posts on The New Stack this week.
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