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
People
Practitioners, researchers, and writers worth following.
Zvi Mowshowitz
AI analysis & synthesis
Writer of exhaustive weekly AI roundups covering capabilities, safety and policy.
17 SEP 2026 · AI #186: The World Takes Notice
Ben Thompson
Tech strategy & analysis
Founder of Stratechery. Writes on technology strategy, business models, and industry analysis.
17 SEP 2026 · An Interview with Joanna Stern About the iPhone Duo and AI for Normal People
Swyx
AI engineering & community
Founder of Latent Space, former Airbyte, Temporal. Writes and podcasts on AI engineering.
17 SEP 2026 · [AINews] Reality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost)
Simon Willison
LLM tooling & agent patterns
Creator of Datasette, Django co-creator. Prolific writer on LLM tooling, agent patterns, and prompt engineering.
16 SEP 2026 · datasette 1.0a40
Gary Marcus
AI criticism & cognitive science
NYU professor emeritus, AI critic and author. Known for skeptical takes on deep learning hype.
16 SEP 2026 · Sam Altman says trust me; Jensen Huang says everything is going to be fine; Bernie Sanders says AI is more dangerous than nukes
Jeff Delaney
Tech education & content
Creator of Fireship. Fast-paced tech explainers and "100 seconds of" series on YouTube.
16 SEP 2026 · Anthropic researchers are quitting... and now we know why
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
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
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
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
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
Ethan Mollick
AI adoption & impact
Wharton professor, author of "Co-Intelligence". Writes on practical AI adoption and impact.
31 AUG 2026 · Agency and Agents
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.