Zvi Mowshowitz
AI analysis & synthesis
Writer of exhaustive weekly AI roundups covering capabilities, safety and policy.
24 JUL 2026 · Introducing Lightcone Commons
People
Practitioners, researchers, and writers worth following.
Ben Thompson
Tech strategy & analysis
Founder of Stratechery. Writes on technology strategy, business models, and industry analysis.
24 JUL 2026 · 2026.30: The Copium Wars
Swyx
AI engineering & community
Founder of Latent Space, former Airbyte, Temporal. Writes and podcasts on AI engineering.
24 JUL 2026 · [AINews] Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 - Multimodal Flow Models that beat Seedance 2.0, Gemini Omni and Grok Imagine, and FLUX-mimic video-action robotics model
Armin Ronacher
Software engineering
Creator of Flask, Sentry VP of Engineering. Writes on software engineering paradigm shifts.
24 JUL 2026 · Codeberg Divides
Simon Willison
LLM tooling & agent patterns
Creator of Datasette, Django co-creator. Prolific writer on LLM tooling, agent patterns, and prompt engineering.
23 JUL 2026 · The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt?
Jeff Delaney
Tech education & content
Creator of Fireship. Fast-paced tech explainers and "100 seconds of" series on YouTube.
23 JUL 2026 · The most interesting "hack" in history...
Ethan Mollick
AI adoption & impact
Wharton professor, author of "Co-Intelligence". Writes on practical AI adoption and impact.
23 JUL 2026 · An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff
Gergely Orosz
Engineering industry analysis
Author of The Pragmatic Engineer, the most-read engineering newsletter. Covers how AI is reshaping software teams.
23 JUL 2026 · The Pulse: New trend - concern about massive increase in code review load
Geoff Huntley
Agentic development economics
Software engineer documenting the collapse in the cost of agentic software development.
23 JUL 2026 · engineer away the slop
Gary Marcus
AI criticism & cognitive science
NYU professor emeritus, AI critic and author. Known for skeptical takes on deep learning hype.
22 JUL 2026 · OpenAI’s disconcerting hack of HuggingFace
Salvatore Sanfilippo
Systems programming
Creator of Redis (antirez). Writing on systems programming and coding with LLMs.
22 JUL 2026 · Not just development, distribution of software may change as well
Nathan Lambert
AI alignment & RLHF
AI researcher, formerly at Hugging Face. Writes the Interconnects newsletter on AI alignment and RLHF.
22 JUL 2026 · Open models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's next
Mitchell Hashimoto
Infrastructure & developer tools
HashiCorp co-founder, creator of Vagrant, Terraform, Consul. Working on Ghostty terminal.
22 JUL 2026 · Everyone Should Know SIMD
Martin Fowler
Software architecture
Chief Scientist at Thoughtworks. Canonical voice on software design, now documenting LLM-era engineering patterns.
21 JUL 2026 · Fragments: July 21
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
Jack Clark
AI policy & industry analysis
Anthropic co-founder, former OpenAI Policy Director. Writes Import AI newsletter.
20 JUL 2026 · Import AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis’ big policy plan
Sebastian Raschka
ML research & education
AI researcher, author of "Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn". Staff ML at Lightning AI.
18 JUL 2026 · Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs
Maggie Appleton
AI x design
Design engineer writing on AI interfaces, tools for thought, and the design of agentic software.
18 JUL 2026 · In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors
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?
Charity Majors
Observability & operations
CTO of Honeycomb. Observability, platform engineering, and what AI does to operations.
8 JUL 2026 · Have you heard? Clickhouse is winning the observability wars!
Drew Breunig
AI practice & strategy
Writer on AI, data and strategy. Author of widely-cited pieces on agentic coding practice.
4 JUL 2026 · Understanding the Dynamics of the AI Ecosystem with Pace Layers
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
Steve Yegge
Agentic software development
Veteran engineer (Amazon, Google, Sourcegraph). Writing extensively on agentic coding and the death of the IDE.
19 JUN 2026 · The Flat Curve Society
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
Jeremy Howard
Deep learning education
Co-founder of fast.ai, former Kaggle president. Pioneer in practical deep learning education.
17 FEB 2026 · I Don’t Want a Learning Dashboard for My Child
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
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.