--- showArticleList: false title: People and publications created: 2026-09-24 visible: true status: in progress tags: [agents, people-and-publications] readability: 3 --- 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](addy-osmani/index.md) - the enterprise-hands-on voice, fourteen years inside Google writing verification-first agentic engineering guidance, now at Anthropic on Claude Code. - [AI Jason](ai-jason/index.md) - the video practitioner who shows agent workflows and context engineering working end to end. - [Andrej Karpathy](andrej-karpathy/index.md) - the vocabulary-setter, from vibe coding to Software 3.0 and agentic engineering. - [Andrew Ng](deeplearning-ai-andrew-ng/index.md) - the educator whose weekly The Batch and courses popularized agentic design patterns. - [Armin Ronacher](armin-ronacher/index.md) - 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](boris-cherny/index.md) - 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](caleb-writes-code/index.md) - the video explainer that turns model releases and agentic-engineering concepts into same-week, illustrated shorts. - [Chip Huyen](chip-huyen/index.md) - the systems-design author of the most-read O'Reilly AI book of 2025. - [Dax Raad](dax-raad/index.md) - 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](dex-horthy/index.md) - 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](geoffrey-huntley/index.md) - 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](hamel-husain/index.md) - the eval-driven method for deciding whether an AI product actually works. - [Harper Reed](harper-reed/index.md) - the Obama-campaign CTO whose spec-first LLM codegen workflow became the HN-cited best practice for building software with agents. - [Jesse Vincent](jesse-vincent/index.md) - the Superpowers builder who documents a sustained personal coding-agent practice and turns it into an installable, eval-measured methodology. - [Kent Beck](kent-beck/index.md) - the XP creator reframing TDD and software design discipline for coding agents, from augmented coding to the economics of programming deflation. - [Latent Space](latent-space/index.md) - the AI engineering newsletter-podcast-conference of record, by swyx and Alessio. - [Lilian Weng](lilian-weng/index.md) - the reference writer whose agent survey is the canonical map of planning, memory, and tool use. - [Mario Zechner](mario-zechner/index.md) - 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](matt-pocock/index.md) - 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](nathan-lambert/index.md) - the inside-the-labs voice on models, post-training, and the open ecosystem. - [Paul Gauthier](paul-gauthier/index.md) - the creator of aider, the pioneering open-source terminal pair programmer whose repo map and polyglot benchmark set the field's template. - [Peter Steinberger](peter-steinberger/index.md) - 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. - [Shreya Shankar](shreya-shankar/index.md) - the Berkeley data-systems researcher making agent reliability measurable through DocETL, semantic operators, and the DAB benchmark. - [Simon Willison](simon-willison/index.md) - the daily, hands-on chronicler of tools and agents. - [Steve Yegge](steve-yegge/index.md) - 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](the-pragmatic-engineer/index.md) - Gergely Orosz's org-and-data view of how engineering teams adopt agents. - [Thorsten Ball](thorsten-ball/index.md) - 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](people-and-publications-feature-matrix/index.md). ## 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. - 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.