Leaders
People I actually follow to stay sharp. Builders sharing real operational data from the agentic frontier - not commentators, not hype accounts. Every account here posts from direct operational experience, has a documented body of work, and passes the "specific and testable" standard.
Creator of Paperclip, the AI coding agent runtime. Posts from direct build experience, not commentary. Detailed on failure modes and system design.
Follow →Documents the process of shipping products fast with agentic workflows. Operational specifics, not theory.
Follow →AI engineer and writer. Runs latent.space. Tracks the infrastructure and capability curve of LLM tooling with engineer-level rigor.
Follow →First principles explanations of how LLMs and agents actually work. Posts from direct research and implementation experience, including foundational work at OpenAI and Tesla.
Follow →Builder of open-source AI interfaces and coding tools. Created Chatbot UI, one of the earliest widely-used open-source LLM frontends. Posts on AI engineering patterns and developer tooling.
Follow →Replit CEO. Building AI-native development environments where agents write, run, and deploy code in the same loop. Posts on the future of software creation.
Follow →Creator of the Instructor library for structured LLM outputs. Posts practical patterns for reliable AI output validation, function calling, and production-ready LLM systems.
Follow →Building AI-native products and documenting what actually works. Posts operational signal on agentic workflows and product development with AI.
Follow →Writer, builder, and entrepreneur. Posts on using AI to run lean operations and build with small teams. Specific about what tools and systems he actually ships with.
Follow →Building with AI and documenting what works in practice. Posts operational signal on agentic workflows and AI-native product development.
Follow →Ex-Cisco security engineer. Publishes practical security guides for OpenClaw deployments and agentic infrastructure. First-hand practitioner, not a commentator.
Follow →AI researcher and builder. Posts hands-on evaluations of frontier models, open-source releases, and agentic tools. One of the most consistent sources of first-look coverage on what actually ships.
Follow →Solo founder, ex-Google Firebase (8 years). Building AI-native SaaS that competes with companies 100x his size. Posts raw operational detail on running agentic systems as a one-person team — including a multi-agent swarm setup Karpathy called "brilliant or severe AI psychosis."
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