Steve Yegge
Agentic software development
Veteran engineer (Amazon, Google, Sourcegraph). Writing extensively on agentic coding and the death of the IDE.
People
Practitioners, researchers, and writers worth following.
Drew Breunig
AI practice & strategy
Writer on AI, data and strategy. Author of widely-cited pieces on agentic coding practice.
Geoff Huntley
Agentic development economics
Software engineer documenting the collapse in the cost of agentic software development.
Zvi Mowshowitz
AI analysis & synthesis
Writer of exhaustive weekly AI roundups covering capabilities, safety and policy.
Gergely Orosz
Engineering industry analysis
Author of The Pragmatic Engineer, the most-read engineering newsletter. Covers how AI is reshaping software teams.
Charity Majors
Observability & operations
CTO of Honeycomb. Observability, platform engineering, and what AI does to operations.
Salvatore Sanfilippo
Systems programming
Creator of Redis (antirez). Writing on systems programming and coding with LLMs.
Martin Fowler
Software architecture
Chief Scientist at Thoughtworks. Canonical voice on software design, now documenting LLM-era engineering patterns.
Lilian Weng
AI research & technical writing
Former VP of Research at OpenAI. Known for comprehensive technical blog posts on ML/AI topics.
Sebastian Raschka
ML research & education
AI researcher, author of "Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn". Staff ML at Lightning AI.
Ethan Mollick
AI adoption & impact
Wharton professor, author of "Co-Intelligence". Writes on practical AI adoption and impact.
Andrej Karpathy
AI research & education
Former Tesla AI Director, OpenAI founding member. Builds educational AI content and nanoGPT.
Nathan Lambert
AI alignment & RLHF
AI researcher, formerly at Hugging Face. Writes the Interconnects newsletter on AI alignment and RLHF.
Jack Clark
AI policy & industry analysis
Anthropic co-founder, former OpenAI Policy Director. Writes Import AI newsletter.
Chip Huyen
ML systems design
Author of "Designing Machine Learning Systems". Co-founder of Claypot AI.
Gary Marcus
AI criticism & cognitive science
NYU professor emeritus, AI critic and author. Known for skeptical takes on deep learning hype.
Hamel Husain
ML engineering & tooling
ML engineer, formerly at GitHub (Copilot) and Airbnb. Writes on practical ML engineering.
Jeremy Howard
Deep learning education
Co-founder of fast.ai, former Kaggle president. Pioneer in practical deep learning education.
Simon Willison
LLM tooling & agent patterns
Creator of Datasette, Django co-creator. Prolific writer on LLM tooling, agent patterns, and prompt engineering.
Armin Ronacher
Software engineering
Creator of Flask, Sentry VP of Engineering. Writes on software engineering paradigm shifts.
Julia Evans
Systems programming & education
Author of programming zines and blog posts explaining complex systems concepts.
Mitchell Hashimoto
Infrastructure & developer tools
HashiCorp co-founder, creator of Vagrant, Terraform, Consul. Working on Ghostty terminal.
Swyx
AI engineering & community
Founder of Latent Space, former Airbyte, Temporal. Writes and podcasts on AI engineering.
Ben Thompson
Tech strategy & analysis
Founder of Stratechery. Writes on technology strategy, business models, and industry analysis.
Jeff Delaney
Tech education & content
Creator of Fireship. Fast-paced tech explainers and "100 seconds of" series on YouTube.
Maggie Appleton
AI x design
Design engineer writing on AI interfaces, tools for thought, and the design of agentic software.
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.