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.

@dotta
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Dotta

Creator of Paperclip, the AI coding agent runtime. Posts from direct build experience, not commentary. Detailed on failure modes and system design.

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@shipper_now
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Shipper

Documents the process of shipping products fast with agentic workflows. Operational specifics, not theory.

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@swyx
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Shawn Wang

AI engineer and writer. Runs latent.space. Tracks the infrastructure and capability curve of LLM tooling with engineer-level rigor.

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@karpathy
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Andrej Karpathy

First principles explanations of how LLMs and agents actually work. Posts from direct research and implementation experience, including foundational work at OpenAI and Tesla.

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@mckaywrigley
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McKay Wrigley

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.

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@amasad
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Amjad Masad

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.

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@jxnlco
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Jason Liu

Creator of the Instructor library for structured LLM outputs. Posts practical patterns for reliable AI output validation, function calling, and production-ready LLM systems.

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@FelixCraftAI
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Felix

Building AI-native products and documenting what actually works. Posts operational signal on agentic workflows and product development with AI.

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@Nateliason
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Nat Eliason

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.

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@sukh_saroy
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Sukh Saroy

Building with AI and documenting what works in practice. Posts operational signal on agentic workflows and AI-native product development.

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@johannfyi
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Johann Sathianathen

Ex-Cisco security engineer. Publishes practical security guides for OpenClaw deployments and agentic infrastructure. First-hand practitioner, not a commentator.

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@MatthewBerman
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Matthew Berman

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.

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@elvissun
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Elvis Sun

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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