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.
- Hamel Husain - the eval-driven method for deciding whether an AI product actually works.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Changes #
- 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.