People and publications

tom@tomrochette.com (Tom Rochette) — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Profiles of the people and websites steering this domain as it evolves, and the lens each brings: hands-on practice, industry synthesis, or conceptual vocabulary.

Addy Osmani - the enterprise-hands-on voice, fourteen years inside Google writing verification-first agentic engineering guidance, now at Anthropic on Claude Code.
AI Jason - the video practitioner who shows agent workflows and context engineering working end to end.
Andrej Karpathy - the vocabulary-setter, from vibe coding to Software 3.0 and agentic engineering.
Andrew Ng - the educator whose weekly The Batch and courses popularized agentic design patterns.
Armin Ronacher - the Flask creator turned skeptical agent-tooling essayist, publishing measured, invoice-backed doubts about long-horizon models and vibecoding at lucumr.pocoo.org.
Boris Cherny - the creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, a primary source on how the dominant harness is built, published in rare interviews and posts rather than a feed.
Caleb Writes Code - the video explainer that turns model releases and agentic-engineering concepts into same-week, illustrated shorts.
Chip Huyen - the systems-design author of the most-read O’Reilly AI book of 2025.
Dax Raad - the SST and OpenCode creator at Anomaly, a terse harness author whose record lives in repos, HN defenses, and scattered X posts rather than publications.
Dex Horthy - the HumanLayer founder whose 12-Factor Agents repo and weekly show codified owning your context window, now funneling into a paid coding-agent workspace.
Geoffrey Huntley - the Ralph-loop methodologist who reduces agentic coding to a bash while-loop plus prompt discipline and then forecasts what that does to the industry.
Hamel Husain - the eval-driven method for deciding whether an AI product actually works.
Harper Reed - the Obama-campaign CTO whose spec-first LLM codegen workflow became the HN-cited best practice for building software with agents.
IndyDevDan - the weekly agentic-engineering channel that names the frameworks and ships the harness repos, the worldview slot of the video band.
Jesse Vincent - the Superpowers builder who documents a sustained personal coding-agent practice and turns it into an installable, eval-measured methodology.
Kent Beck - the XP creator reframing TDD and software design discipline for coding agents, from augmented coding to the economics of programming deflation.
Latent Space - the AI engineering newsletter-podcast-conference of record, by swyx and Alessio.
Lilian Weng - the reference writer whose agent survey is the canonical map of planning, memory, and tool use.
Mario Zechner - the creator of pi and libgdx, the minimalist contrarian of harness design who argues in long benchmarked posts that most agent features are baggage.
Matt Pocock - the TypeScript educator turned AI-workflow teacher, whose AI Hero posts and skills repo turn agentic coding into an installable, exercise-driven curriculum.
Nathan Lambert - the inside-the-labs voice on models, post-training, and the open ecosystem.
Owain Lewis - the quiet software-factory builder channel where every video ships with a runnable repo.
Paul Gauthier - the creator of aider, the pioneering open-source terminal pair programmer whose repo map and polyglot benchmark set the field’s template.
Peter Steinberger - the OpenClaw creator and PSPDFKit founder now at OpenAI, shipping a torrent of agent tooling while his commentary moved from a 2025 blog hot streak to X.
Ray Amjad - the Claude Code release deep-dive channel with a verification-first thesis and no sponsors.
Shreya Shankar - the Berkeley data-systems researcher making agent reliability measurable through DocETL, semantic operators, and the DAB benchmark.
Simon Willison - the daily, hands-on chronicler of tools and agents.
Steve Yegge - the operative who predicted the agent era in essays and then built in it, Gas Town included until he shut it down in September 2026.
The Pragmatic Engineer - Gergely Orosz’s org-and-data view of how engineering teams adopt agents.
Thorsten Ball - the Amp co-founder and Monkey books author, writing a weekly newsletter and screencasting his actual agent-driven workday.

Its members are compared on shared rows in the People and Publications Feature Matrix.

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2026-08-29 - Added AI Jason.
2026-08-29 - Added Andrej Karpathy.
2026-08-29 - Added Andrew Ng.
2026-08-29 - Added Caleb Writes Code.
2026-08-29 - Added Chip Huyen.
2026-08-29 - Added Hamel Husain.
2026-08-29 - Added Latent Space.
2026-08-29 - Added Lilian Weng.
2026-08-29 - Added Nathan Lambert.
2026-08-29 - Added Simon Willison.
2026-08-29 - Added Steve Yegge.
2026-08-29 - Added The Pragmatic Engineer.
2026-09-02 - Added Addy Osmani.
2026-09-24 - Added Armin Ronacher.
2026-09-24 - Added Boris Cherny.
2026-09-24 - Added Dax Raad.
2026-09-24 - Added Dex Horthy.
2026-09-24 - Added Mario Zechner.
2026-09-24 - Added Matt Pocock.
2026-09-24 - Added Peter Steinberger.
2026-09-24 - Added Thorsten Ball.
2026-09-24 - Added Geoffrey Huntley.
2026-09-24 - Added Harper Reed.
2026-09-24 - Added Jesse Vincent.
2026-09-24 - Added Kent Beck.
2026-09-24 - Added Paul Gauthier.
2026-09-24 - Added Shreya Shankar.
2026-09-24 - Added IndyDevDan.
2026-09-24 - Added Owain Lewis.
2026-09-24 - Added Ray Amjad.

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