Media Coverage

AI Readiness Framework Cites Measurement and Larridin

floyd.smith@larridin.ai (Floyd Smith) — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:38:42 GMT

Larridin is a leader in measuring your company’s use of AI and optimizing AI’s contribution to business results. One of those business results is how your brand appears in LLM search results.

Larridin Co-Founder Quoted in Fortune on Kimi K3 Competition in AI

floyd.smith@larridin.ai (Floyd Smith) — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:37:19 GMT

News flash: The advent of Kimi K3 drew a comment in Fortune magazine from Larridin CTO and co-founder Ameya Kanitcar. He describes the costs of running open source and open-weights AI models, such as Kimi K3, as only "GPUs and energy."

Eighteen months ago, breaking news about DeepSeek hurt tech company valuations. DeepSeek is an open source Chinese AI model that promised to do the same thing as foundational AI models from companies like OpenAI and Perplexity, but at far less cost. DeepSeek was seen as a direct threat to the foundation model companies, and an indirect threat to investors and stakeholders such as the large public cloud providers.

Zen Ex Machina: AI Ownership, the C-Suite, and Larridin as Part of the Solution

floyd.smith@larridin.ai (Floyd Smith) — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:46:12 GMT

Larridin research was cited in an article on the website for Zen Ex Machina, an independent Australian firm advising on AI. The article asks: which of the “Cs” in the “C-suite” owns AI?

WebProNews Cites Larridin: Your Codebase May Be Teaching AI to Write Slop

floyd.smith@larridin.ai (Floyd Smith) — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:33:43 GMT

Larridin was recently cited by WebProNews in a long, thoughtful, and useful piece, "The Codebase That Breeds AI Slop: Why Inconsistent Patterns Doom Software Rewrites". The article cites one finding we see as particularly interesting: managers give AI-generated code above-average marks in reviews, but the same scores is below average in maintainability, generating more rework than human-generated work. The code, to use an old phrase, flatters to deceive. And it features another key insight: The article features a valuable insight: the slop problem starts inside your existing codebase, not inside the model.

The New Stack Asks Ameya Kanitkar About AI and Developer Productivity

floyd.smith@larridin.ai (Floyd Smith) — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:32:50 GMT

Larridin CTO Ameya Kanitkar has a nuanced view on developer productivity in the AI era, and it’s prominently featured in an article in The New Stack.

Larridin CTO Kanitkar Featured in The Register on AI Costs

floyd.smith@larridin.ai (Floyd Smith) — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:44:24 GMT

If you've felt whiplash trying to figure out whether AI is getting cheaper or bleeding your budget dry, congratulations: you're paying attention. The Register just published a sharp piece of reporting on the great split AI token costs. Commodity inference prices are racing toward free, while frontier models quietly moon-shot in the other direction. The piece draws extensively on commentary from Larridin CTO Ameya Kanitkar.

Larridin Study Helps Show How to Optimize AI

floyd.smith@larridin.ai (Floyd Smith) — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:27:01 GMT

A long and fascinating Medium article, The Design Teams Winning With AI Are Not Doing What You Think by jass ksiksi, cites a Larridin study to make a fascinating point: Use AI carefully, or it can hurt quality and productivity.

"Can't 10x Spend Every Year" on AI: Russ Fradin in Business Insider

floyd.smith@larridin.ai (Floyd Smith) — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:33:41 GMT

"We haven't seen anyone talking about spending less on AI next year," said Russell Fradin, CEO and cofounder of Larridin. "They're just talking about instrumenting to understand where it goes."

Business Insider Quotes Larridin CEO as Boardroom Talk Turns to Tokens

floyd.smith@larridin.ai (Floyd Smith) — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:28:15 GMT

As AI costs rise, employees are competing for compute resources. The answer? Measurement and optimization.

CNN Interviews Larridin CEO for Anthropic IPO

floyd.smith@larridin.ai (Floyd Smith) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:32:43 GMT

CNN's Becky Anderson frequently covers Anthropic on her well-known show, Connect the World. With Anthropic filing for their initial public offering, she interviewed Larridin CEO Russ Fradin on the IPO and a variety of AI topics.

The interview was shared widely on X/Twitter, in four parts, each 1-3 minutes long.