Head of Editorial, Latent Space.
Founded the technology blog ReadWriteWeb (2003 to 2012), per MacManus's Substack bio shown on the page.
Why their word counts: Independent technology editor and writer who interviewed Airbnb's CTO; MacManus reports what the executive said and has no access to Airbnb's data, so the figures are second-hand.
Profile from this source, checked 2026-10-19.
As a journalist, host or interviewer.
So while we solve 50% of the tickets, we're actually deliberate about the tickets we don't choose to solve yet [with agents].
Ahmad Al-DahleChief Technology Officer · Executive, 
Airbnb
Interview: Latent Space (independent AI engineering publication), Latent Space (independent AI engineering publication), October 2, 2026. Reported by Richard MacManus.
agents spin up to then triage and run your on-call
Ahmad Al-DahleChief Technology Officer · Executive, Airbnb
Interview: Latent Space (independent AI engineering publication), Latent Space (independent AI engineering publication), October 2, 2026. Reported by Richard MacManus.
every engineer must be able to explain, even if an AI generated the PR, must be able to explain what they built.
Ahmad Al-DahleChief Technology Officer · Executive, Airbnb
Interview: Latent Space (independent AI engineering publication), Latent Space (independent AI engineering publication), October 2, 2026. Reported by Richard MacManus.
We have our own internal agent that we call AirChat, which [includes] basically all the necessary MCP organizational context,
Ahmad Al-DahleChief Technology Officer · Executive, Airbnb
Interview: Latent Space (independent AI engineering publication), Latent Space (independent AI engineering publication), October 2, 2026. Reported by Richard MacManus.