People in AI

Co-host of the Dr. Data Show discussing AI research papers and trends with Eric Siegel.

Lucas Pope

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Game Developer

Papers, Please developer expressed sentiment that he doesn't feel comfortable sharing work publicly lest it gets cloned by AI.

Blind content creator discussing how AI-powered apps enable blind people to access visual feedback about their appearance for the first time.

LinkedIn author who wrote article comparing AI agents to interns in corporate environments.

Lukas Petersson

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Co-Founder at Andon Labs

Author of "You Can't Eval GPT5 Anymore" in LessWrong

Author of "Review of DeepSeek OCR" in Luke Atkins Blog

Creator of Backstage Pass newsletter rejecting Substack's AI detection as discriminatory against AI-assisted writers.

Author of "AR + AI = Your Next Weird Best Friend" in TikTok

Mack Falconer

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Created Mervin, an AI-powered virtual roommate using Meta Quest and TykeAI technology.

US ice dancer referenced as using traditional Lenny Kravitz medley for Olympic routine.

Mae LaPresta

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Google

Co-authored article introducing Learn Mode in Google Colab with Spencer Shumway.

Maggie Kang

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Director

Co-directed KPop Demon Hunters and accepted the Golden Globe for best animated feature.

Author of "Why Language Models Can't Actually Reason"

Author of "Integrators Represent the Breakthrough Beyond Traditional Categories"

Manish Bhusal

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Widget Factory

Author of "Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude Over Every Other AI"

Manisha Priyadarshini

Creator

Author of "Prime Video Pulls Video Recaps After AI Blunders"

Manya Bansal

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Co-author of blog post introducing Ampersand Tutor, a teaching model trained to optimize for student learning.

Marc Malott

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Every

Author of "Why 95 Percent of AI Pilots Fail—And How to Avoid It Happening to You" in Every

Marco Bambini

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Founder at SQLite.AI

Marco Bambini published an article on Substack about WASTE, an open-source inference engine for running large models locally.

Marcus Beard

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founder at Fenimore Harper Communications

Author of article on AI slopaganda referenced in the letter

Documentary filmmaker noting improved processing accuracy for 30-minute videos

Author of "Market analysis indicates that speculative AI valuations are concentrating in private markets"

Her blog post about em-dash usage in AI models and digitization driving the phenomenon is referenced and discussed

Marija Gavrilov

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Exponential View

Co-authored report on state of the AI economy.

Mario Gabriele

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Byline Author

Wrote about AI's progress in understanding life and biology with Eric Nguyen interview.

Author analyzing how AI is driving more distributed business formation in the US, with new companies forming outside major cities.

Author of "Professional Valuers Apply Discounts of 10 to 25 Percent"

Mark Humphries

Creator

Author of "Has Google Quietly Solved Two of AI's Oldest Problems?"

Signed letter urging government action on ticket resale prices

Co-writer of Golden who accepted the best original song award.

Author of "All Ideas Are Secondhand" in Lapham's Quarterly

Medium author who wrote comprehensive article on agentic AI systems and their capabilities.

Original author of Frankenstein novel (1818) whose work is analyzed for AI metaphor parallels.

Maryam Karimzadehgan

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Engineering Leader at Google

Byline author of article introducing Google Playground, an experimental AI gaming platform.

Mateusz Makosiewicz

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Ahrefs

Author of "13 Times AI Actually Delivered" in Ahrefs

Matt Levine

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Analyst

Estimated OpenAI's old profit cap at approximately $272 billion

Matt Rickard

Creator

Quoted for his observation that every Unix command eventually becomes a startup, applied to AI agents.

Matt Schulman

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Founder and CEO at Pave

Byline author discussing GTM Engineer as fastest-growing job and AI-driven role creation.

Matthew Berman

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AI YouTuber

Joked about Kylon's conductor in their launch film resembling actor JK Simmons.

Author of "Introducing Claude Chic"

Author of "Selectively reducing eval awareness and murder in Gemma 3 27B via steering" in LessWrong

Lead vocalist whose name inspired the fictional character Mavis Beacon.

Max Friar

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Managing Partner at Calder Capital

Author of "Owner Dependency Doesn't Just Reduce Your Multiple"

Max Leiter

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Claude Code @ Anthropic at Anthropic

Author of "You Should Be Rewriting Your Prompts" in Max Leiter's Blog

Max Woolf

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Senior Data Scientist at BuzzFeed

Author of "Nano Banana Can Be Prompt Engineered For Extremely Nuanced AI Image Generation" in minimaxir.com

Author of "Claude Opus 4.6 Ships with Agent Teams"

Maximilian Schons

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Self-employed

Author of "Building Brains on a Computer" in Asimov Press

Author of "Microsoft's Power Problem: AI Chips Are Sitting in Inventory" in Data Centre Magazine

Mehmet yilmaz

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Author of "The Barbell of Software Value"

Author of "By 2026, AI video models are expected to be production-grade"

Author of "The New Ethical Implications of Gen AI" in tec.mx

Author of "GitHub's Tutorial on Using Copilot to Improve Code Reviews"

Created Grok Bot Activity Dashboard for tracking bot activities, progress, and status.

92-year-old British actor joining ElevenLabs' Iconic Voice Marketplace, allowing companies to license his AI-generated voice for projects

Michael Dubakov

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Founder at Fibery

Author of "Malleable Software Will Eat the SaaS World"

5x Grammy nominated singer and pianist known for Great American Songbook participating in the project

Running ClawCons around the country organizing meetups for developers and non-technical users interested in OpenClaw agent technology.

Author of "When Coca-Cola Used AI to Make Their Christmas Ad"

Blogger who documented Peter Scholze's quote on the importance of definitions in mathematics.

Michael Krigsman

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Host, CXOTalk at CXOTalk

Host of CXOTalk episode featuring Andy Baldwin on CIO AI agenda and enterprise AI governance.

Michael Levan

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Principal AI Architect at solo.io

Author of "Multiplexing MCP Servers For Agentic Specialization"

Michael Wall

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Founder, Solo Music Business at Solo Music Business

Author of detailed account of using ChatGPT Pro as a first hire in his solo music composition and licensing business.

Author of "AI Will Compromise Your Cybersecurity Posture"

Urban theorist whose 2005 book 'Planet of Slums' chronicled the rise of million-person cities in the developing world and life in global slums.

Posted on LinkedIn about consumer AI predictions including device failures and mini-app emergence.

Mike Whitaker

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Navigating AI Transitions with Whit

Author of "Back to School with AI: The Clarity Crisis" in Navigating AI Transitions with Whit

World-class Go player quoted remarking about AlphaGo feeling like playing against an alien

Country music artist leading Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, used as comparison point to Breaking Rust.

Muhammad Anees

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Research Fellow at Esophageal and Lung Institute

Author of "Customer Service Systems Optimize for Deflection Rate"

N8 Programs

Creator

Tested Pangram 4 AI detection model and found it identified 38 AI-generated words in a 1,198-word story.

Nader Dabit

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Eigen Labs

Author of "The Complete Guide to Building Agents with the Claude Agent SDK"

Nadia Asparouhova

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Author who interviewed Zerfas and attended one of Jhourney's retreats

Nat Eliason

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Program Director of Founders School at Founders School

Argued that generalists are making a professional mistake in the age of AI because basic competence in all skills will be commodified

Nate Grahek

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The Rundown AI

Author of Nate's Notebook newsletter discussing use of AI tools like Dot for managing project lists and research.

Byline author of guide on 20 techniques for getting cited in AI answer engines.

Nayel Rehman

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Co-developer of WiFind, an AI-powered search-and-rescue system using Wi-Fi signals.

Had a deepfake used in a scam ad falsely promoting erectile dysfunction medication.

Released 'Nightborne', his first short film generated entirely by AI using Seedance video generation model, and founded AI film studio.

Author of "tcgen05 for Dummies" in Personal Blog

Nick Dobos

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Prompt Engineer

Argues that timing, taste, and opinionated products remain the real competitive moat despite AI coding tools lowering execution barriers.

Videographer for the production.

Author of article about PagedAttention and virtual memory for KV cache.

Nick Tikhonov

Creator

ntik.me

Author of "How I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent" in ntik.me

Author of "How to Create an Effective Prompt for Nano Banana Pro" in Radical Curiosity

Finance leader and influencer quoted on AI adoption in financial planning, comparing it to Excel's impact 40 years ago.

Actor in Lord of War (2005) whose character serves as metaphor for Jensen Huang's role in GPU distribution

Nicole Brichtova

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Author of "Image editing in Gemini just got a major upgrade"

Author of "Anthropic's IPO"

Author of the article analyzing agent labs and their competitive advantages over model labs

Nima Owji

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independent app researcher and full-stack web developer

Author of "Grok is Working on Background Thinking" in X

Author of "The democratization of AI is accelerating through No-Code Agent platforms"

Attached to star in the upcoming Rambo origin film set during the Vietnam War.

Author of the article on AI-Driven FP&A Platforms

Oguzhan Olguncu

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Technical Writer at Unkey

Author discussing learning strategies with LLMs, including using Socratic mentoring approach and structured project planning.

Author of "Anthropic shipped the full source code for Claude Code to the public npm registry"

Author of "GPT-5 Goes Hard on Real-World Programming" in omerba.dev

Author of "How to Train an LLM: Part 1" in omkaark.com

Late Black Sabbath frontman whose likeness was AI-generated in Rod Stewart tribute

Example of an artist making low-probability choices with African masks in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Author of "DeepSeek Introduces mHC to Keep Transformer Gradients Stable at Scale" in AlphaSignal

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Author

Author of "Redesign Workflows Fundamentally"

New Yorker cartoonist since 1998 whose pen name P.Byrnes is reproduced on ChatGPT-generated images.

Screenwriter of Predator: Badlands credited with inventive world-building

Patrick Loeber

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Member of Technical Staff at Google DeepMind

Referenced in "How to Build With Nano Banana: Complete Developer Tutorial" in Google

BRIT and Billboard charting producer with 5 billion streams participating in the project

Paul Biggar

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Author of "Context Plumbing" in Interconnected

Paul Osterman is the author of the book 'Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment' examining the decline of formal employment.

Pedro Domingos

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Professor Emeritus at Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Author of "Tensor Logic: The Language of AI"

Directing the upcoming Rocky making-of drama 'I Play Rocky' without Stallone's involvement.

Ice hockey player featured in viral advertisement for Meta's smart glasses

New Yorker cartoonist whose signature appears on ChatGPT-generated images.

Phil Eaton

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Founder at The Consensus

Author of "LLMs and Your Career" in Eaton Phil's Notes

Author arguing that technology has a maximum learning rate and that once companies have sufficient funding and talent, they saturate that rate.

PJ Ace

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Founder at Genre.ai

Author of "The Zelda Movie Trailer That Shouldn't Exist (But Does)"

Signed letter urging government action on ticket resale prices

Pol Cervera

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Writer at Everyday by Pol

Author of "Everyday | AI for All" in Everyday by Pol

Praneeta Pujari

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Founder, CEO at UniqueHuman

Created UniqueHuman's film showcasing an AI agent that initiates conversation before the user, surpassing 1M views.

Author of "Tau² Benchmark: How a Prompt Rewrite Boosted GPT-5-mini by 22%"

Content creator highlighting spatio-temporal grounding feature for tracking subjects

Author of "The Roomba Empire Finally Stumbled"

Rajan

Creator

Author of "LLMs Can Invent Their Own Compression" in Rajan

Host of 'Pioneers of AI' podcast where author discussed GPT-5 launch.

Referenced for his quote on inspiration as being struck by lightning in a thunderstorm

rasbt

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Senior Staff Research Engineer

Byline author cataloging 10 open LLM architectures released in October.

Ray Toth

Creator

User at The Rundown

Community member from Huntsville, AL who built self-hosted AI wine cellar app with Docker and Claude.

Co-author of article on NVIDIA's open data initiatives for AI training pipelines.

Haitian-born model who portrayed Mavis Beacon in marketing materials but was not credited or compensated fairly.

Community member from Zurich who built ADT, an AI orchestrator for Claude Code and GitHub development.

Rick Manelius

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Founder at AI Experts

Cautionary post about AI enabling productivity but leading to 40 unfinished projects and burnout.

Riley Brown

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AI Power User

Demonstrated Claude Fable 5 building a clone of Lovable coding platform in 2 prompts.

Rob Dodson

Creator

Author of "Clawdbot's Missing Layers"

Rob Enderle

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Principal Analyst at Enderle Group

Principal analyst explaining why CPUs are cheaper and more power-efficient for inference workloads

Early ComfyUI contributor with numerous workflows covering marketing, advertising, and production.

Byline author of article about Wispr Notetaker AI meeting transcription tool.

Author of "Curse O'the Myre: Haunting Animated Short Reimagines Scottish History"

Robert Greene

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Author of 'The 48 Laws of Power' demonstrating rationalist approach to universal laws of behavior

Production infrastructure and creative ecosystems expert who has worked with rapid-growth companies like Instacart and Lyft.

Rodrigo Davies

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AI product leader at Figma

Byline author announcing Figma's new AI agent for design that works natively on the collaborative canvas.

Rodrigo Fernández

Creator

NeuralTrust

Author of "The 10 Most Critical AI Security Risks in 2025 (And How to Defend Against Them)" in NeuralTrust

Rohan Paul

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Contributor at Microsoft

Shared commentary on social media about Claude Code creator Boris Cherny's recommendations on optimizing configuration files.

Author of "Chatbots Are Not Your Password Manager"

Teacher who built multiple educational artifacts and digital interactive workspaces using Claude through Anthropic's training program.

Byline author providing practical guide on how to effectively use Claude and AI tools for productivity and development.

Runbo Li

Creator

Magic Hour AI

Author of evaluation comparing Fable 5 and Sol 5.6 video generation models on creative tasks, finding both still far from production-ready autonomous concept development.

Developed WiFind, a search-and-rescue system using AI that detects survivors through Wi-Fi signals after natural disasters.

Wrote about the danger of borrowed certainty from AI in software development decisions.

Writer who quipped that the economy is 'three AI data centers in a trench coat'

Ruxandra Teslo

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Writer & Editor at Stripe

Teslo wrote about why the world remains unchanged despite advanced AI capabilities, attributing delays to governance and other bottlenecks rather than intelligence limitations.

Ryan Hoover

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Founder at Product Hunt

Wrote about 'vibecoding' as a form of self-expression where software creation itself becomes entertainment, highlighting the shift from software as utility to software as art.

Director of Content Marketing at Ahrefs who developed a 23-skill-file process for content engineering using Claude.

Byline author of article about Texas data center permits and grid challenges for AI infrastructure.

Author of "Profiling with Cursor 2.0: The Missing Layer in AI Code Generation" in Ryan Perry

Author predicting diffusion of Mythos-class models by 2029 based on open-weight model progress trends.

Wrote detailed article about Fish Audio S2, explaining inline tags for expressive text-to-speech control across 80 languages.

Author of "Nvidia Scrutiny" in Capacity

Author of "MCP After Hours: AI Dev Tools Demo Night - Full Video"

Author of "Google Rolls Out NotebookLM Multilingual Upgrade"

Deats criticized Scorsese's use of AI for storyboarding, arguing it disrespects peer artists.

Writer, philosopher, and neuroscientist who built both books/podcast and a meditation app business

Author of "Your Brain Lies to You, and AI Falls for It, Too"

Sangeet Paul Choudary

Creator

Wrote an essay analyzing the fallacies of 'AI won't take your job, but someone using AI will' and its misunderstandings of how AI restructures work systems.

Bestselling fantasy author whose works are published by Bloomsbury; her absence of new titles contributed to revenue decline in consumer division.

Author who joined lawsuit against Meta regarding use of copyrighted books for LLM training.

Author of "Google dodges Chrome breakup" in The Rundown

Established New Yorker cartoonist whose signature ChatGPT reproduces.

Author of "Announcing Rnj-1: Building Instruments of Intelligence" in Essential AI

Scott Turow

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Bestselling author and named plaintiff in class action lawsuit against Google accusing the company of illegally copying millions of works to train Gemini AI.

SE Gyges

Creator

VerySane

Author of "Building the Chinese Room" in VerySane

Sean Lyndersay

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Vice President, Product, Microsoft Edge at Microsoft

Byline author on Microsoft Edge Blog announcing new Copilot features integrated into Edge browser on desktop and mobile.

Author of "Universal LLM Memory Does Not Exist"

Author of "CEO Turnover Hit Record Levels - 2,221 Departures in the US"

Performance artist who created a 1990s Russian talk show segment about Lenin being a mushroom, used as historical precedent for understanding how misinformation spreads.

Discussed strategy, AI application, and decision-making with Tim Ferriss in podcast/article format.

Author of "Defend Against AI-Specific Attacks"

Author of "Oxford, Cambridge, and Lincoln Are Building an AI Army"

Referenced as a writing style in the prompt 'Write a 10 line poem about Florida in the style of Shel Silverstein'

Author of "AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers, Stanford study reveals"

Shuji Sado

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Chairman at Open Source Group Japan

Author of "The Current State of the Theory That GPL Propagates to AI Models Trained on GPL Code" in Shuji Sado

shyamal

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X (formerly Twitter)

Author of "❯ npm i -g @openai/codex ❯ codex ❯ codex -m gpt-5 -c model_reasoning_effort="high" codex CLI with gp" in X (formerly Twitter)

Won Caine Prize for African Writing with story The Blue Fighter; denied using AI despite AI-detection software flagging his work as entirely AI-generated.

DrivingBench co-founder who assisted with LLM vehicle control experiment and software integration.

Simon Scrapes

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Expert

Subject matter expert who identified 15 specific concepts for mastering Claude Code capabilities; media credit for article.

Author mapping agent protocols across entry, identity, tools and intent layers for consumer financial transactions with agents.

Simon Thomsen

Creator

POWR

Author of "We're Officially Mapping Brains With AI"

Social media manager praising AI-powered editing features for time savings

Co-authored article introducing Learn Mode in Google Colab with Mae LaPresta.

Stephane Derosiaux

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Co-founder & CPTO at Conduktor

Author of "Semantic Closure: Why Compilers Know When They Are Right and LLMs Do Not" in Substack

Author of 'The War of Art' discussing rationalist thinking in understanding human behavior

Author of "Supreme Court Stands Firm on Protecting Human Art"

Author of "The Anthropic Hive Mind"

Writing the 26th James Bond film which will focus on AI dangers as the plot.

Co-founder of Thinkers50 moderating the webinar on AI in management

Surendra Reddy

Creator

451 Ventures

LinkedIn author who wrote about trust as enterprise AI's true bottleneck rather than intelligence.

Sydney Runkle

Creator

LangChain

Byline author of Deep Agents v0.7 release article.

Actor and director discussed his AI pitch for a Rambo prequel using de-aging technology and his reaction to upcoming Rocky and Rambo projects he's not involved with.

Tamara Winter

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Host and narrator at Stripe Press

Host and narrator of the 'Beneath the Surface' podcast series exploring infrastructure challenges and charter cities as potential solutions.

Author of article discussing how AI has made code cheap but coordination remains the bottleneck in software delivery and agent scaling.

Tammy Taabassum

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Staff Product Designer at Figma

Byline co-author announcing Figma's new AI agent for design.

Wrote analysis discussing AGI development challenges and the growing gap between marketing claims and underlying AI technology.

Reviewed Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 model's capabilities in generating prompts from multiple reference images and visual workflows.