People

Practitioners, researchers, and writers worth following.

Ethan Mollick

Ethan Mollick

AI adoption & impact

Wharton professor, author of "Co-Intelligence". Writes on practical AI adoption and impact.

18 SEP 2026 · The Overhang

Ben Thompson

Ben Thompson

Tech strategy & analysis

Founder of Stratechery. Writes on technology strategy, business models, and industry analysis.

18 SEP 2026 · 2026.38: Doomforce

Gary Marcus

AI criticism & cognitive science

NYU professor emeritus, AI critic and author. Known for skeptical takes on deep learning hype.

18 SEP 2026 · Wake up, people. What we should actually fear, near term, is not so much rogue superintelligence as unleashed agentic AI causing hacking the internet at scale.

Jeff Delaney

Jeff Delaney

Tech education & content

Creator of Fireship. Fast-paced tech explainers and "100 seconds of" series on YouTube.

18 SEP 2026 · Did Google just kickstart the intelligence explosion?

Zvi Mowshowitz

AI analysis & synthesis

Writer of exhaustive weekly AI roundups covering capabilities, safety and policy.

18 SEP 2026 · The Preference Cascade Is Only Getting Started

Simon Willison

Simon Willison

LLM tooling & agent patterns

Creator of Datasette, Django co-creator. Prolific writer on LLM tooling, agent patterns, and prompt engineering.

18 SEP 2026 · The Creative Spirit of Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Swyx

Swyx

AI engineering & community

Founder of Latent Space, former Airbyte, Temporal. Writes and podcasts on AI engineering.

18 SEP 2026 · [AINews] not much happened today

Martin Fowler

Software architecture

Chief Scientist at Thoughtworks. Canonical voice on software design, now documenting LLM-era engineering patterns.

17 SEP 2026 · I don't like LLMs

Charity Majors

Observability & operations

CTO of Honeycomb. Observability, platform engineering, and what AI does to operations.

14 SEP 2026 · Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob

Armin Ronacher

Armin Ronacher

Software engineering

Creator of Flask, Sentry VP of Engineering. Writes on software engineering paradigm shifts.

14 SEP 2026 · Interpreting Pangram

Maggie Appleton

AI x design

Design engineer writing on AI interfaces, tools for thought, and the design of agentic software.

14 SEP 2026 · Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces

Nathan Lambert

Nathan Lambert

AI alignment & RLHF

AI researcher, formerly at Hugging Face. Writes the Interconnects newsletter on AI alignment and RLHF.

11 SEP 2026 · Open-Source AI & Open Models Reading List

Gergely Orosz

Engineering industry analysis

Author of The Pragmatic Engineer, the most-read engineering newsletter. Covers how AI is reshaping software teams.

10 SEP 2026 · The Pulse: tech companies move to open AI models

Sebastian Raschka

Sebastian Raschka

ML research & education

AI researcher, author of "Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn". Staff ML at Lightning AI.

9 SEP 2026 · GPT-6 Astra, Looped Transformers, and Hidden Reasoning

Drew Breunig

AI practice & strategy

Writer on AI, data and strategy. Author of widely-cited pieces on agentic coding practice.

7 SEP 2026 · What We Can Learn from Claude’s Fable 5.1 System Prompt

Jack Clark

Jack Clark

AI policy & industry analysis

Anthropic co-founder, former OpenAI Policy Director. Writes Import AI newsletter.

7 SEP 2026 · Import AI 472: DeepMind’s cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman

Steve Yegge

Agentic software development

Veteran engineer (Amazon, Google, Sourcegraph). Writing extensively on agentic coding and the death of the IDE.

24 AUG 2026 · Fences, not Sandboxes

Jeremy Howard

Jeremy Howard

Deep learning education

Co-founder of fast.ai, former Kaggle president. Pioneer in practical deep learning education.

17 AUG 2026 · My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup

Mitchell Hashimoto

Mitchell Hashimoto

Infrastructure & developer tools

HashiCorp co-founder, creator of Vagrant, Terraform, Consul. Working on Ghostty terminal.

29 JUL 2026 · Superlogical

Salvatore Sanfilippo

Salvatore Sanfilippo

Systems programming

Creator of Redis (antirez). Writing on systems programming and coding with LLMs.

28 JUL 2026 · The real AI risk is inside the labs

Geoff Huntley

Agentic development economics

Software engineer documenting the collapse in the cost of agentic software development.

23 JUL 2026 · engineer away the slop

Julia Evans

Julia Evans

Systems programming & education

Author of programming zines and blog posts explaining complex systems concepts.

21 JUL 2026 · Some more things about Django I've been enjoying

Hamel Husain

Hamel Husain

ML engineering & tooling

ML engineer, formerly at GitHub (Copilot) and Airbnb. Writes on practical ML engineering.

11 JUL 2026 · Do Automated Evals Work?

Lilian Weng

Lilian Weng

AI research & technical writing

Former VP of Research at OpenAI. Known for comprehensive technical blog posts on ML/AI topics.

4 JUL 2026 · Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement

Andrej Karpathy

Andrej Karpathy

AI research & education

Former Tesla AI Director, OpenAI founding member. Builds educational AI content and nanoGPT.

30 APR 2026 · Sequoia Ascent 2026 summary

Chip Huyen

Chip Huyen

ML systems design

Author of "Designing Machine Learning Systems". Co-founder of Claypot AI.

16 JAN 2025 · Common pitfalls when building generative AI applications

Ilya Sutskever

Ilya Sutskever

AI research leadership

OpenAI co-founder and former Chief Scientist. Now co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence Inc.

Andrew Ng

AI education & industry analysis

Co-founder of Coursera and deeplearning.ai, founding lead of Google Brain, former Chief Scientist at Baidu. Publishes The Batch newsletter.