Jeff Delaney
Tech education & content
Creator of Fireship. Fast-paced tech explainers and "100 seconds of" series on YouTube.
21 SEP 2026 · An ex-OpenAI researcher just deleted language from the LLM...
People
Practitioners, researchers, and writers worth following.
Charity Majors
Observability & operations
CTO of Honeycomb. Observability, platform engineering, and what AI does to operations.
21 SEP 2026 · Where do AI norms come from?
Zvi Mowshowitz
AI analysis & synthesis
Writer of exhaustive weekly AI roundups covering capabilities, safety and policy.
21 SEP 2026 · Monthly Roundup #46: September 2026
Jack Clark
AI policy & industry analysis
Anthropic co-founder, former OpenAI Policy Director. Writes Import AI newsletter.
21 SEP 2026 · Import AI 473: The US’s superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics
Nathan Lambert
AI alignment & RLHF
AI researcher, formerly at Hugging Face. Writes the Interconnects newsletter on AI alignment and RLHF.
21 SEP 2026 · The current balance of power in open models
Ben Thompson
Tech strategy & analysis
Founder of Stratechery. Writes on technology strategy, business models, and industry analysis.
21 SEP 2026 · Frontier Overhangs
Simon Willison
LLM tooling & agent patterns
Creator of Datasette, Django co-creator. Prolific writer on LLM tooling, agent patterns, and prompt engineering.
20 SEP 2026 · Quoting voxium
Gary Marcus
AI criticism & cognitive science
NYU professor emeritus, AI critic and author. Known for skeptical takes on deep learning hype.
19 SEP 2026 · Top three ways Dario Amodei has blown his credibility in seven days
Swyx
AI engineering & community
Founder of Latent Space, former Airbyte, Temporal. Writes and podcasts on AI engineering.
19 SEP 2026 · [AINews] Here are 6 Clones of Jev in 2 days
Ethan Mollick
AI adoption & impact
Wharton professor, author of "Co-Intelligence". Writes on practical AI adoption and impact.
18 SEP 2026 · The Overhang
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
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
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
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
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
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
Infrastructure & developer tools
HashiCorp co-founder, creator of Vagrant, Terraform, Consul. Working on Ghostty terminal.
29 JUL 2026 · Superlogical
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
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
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
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
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
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.