People in AI

Naveen Naidu

Engineer

Entrepreneur in Residence at Every

Built Monologue, an AI voice dictation app for Mac that gained thousands of users before launch as the single engineer behind the viral app.

Peter Steinberger

Engineer

Software Engineer and Creator at OpenAI

Created OpenClaw (formerly ClawdBot) open-source AI agent and recently joined OpenAI after being courted by Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg.

Nityesh Agarwal

Engineer

Engineer at Every

Created an impressive custom skill that improved Claude's presentation design capabilities using Anthropic's Skills feature.

Boris Cherny

Engineer

Founding Engineer at Anthropic

Co-creator of Claude Code who discussed practical tips and philosophy for developing the agent on the AI & I podcast.

Steve Yegge

Engineer

Created Gas Town, a framework for running 20-30 Claude Code instances simultaneously, described as an industrialized coding factory.

Writes about how management techniques for AI agents and humans are converging, arguing that prompting belongs in business school rather than computer science.

Cat Wu

Engineer

Founding Engineer at Anthropic

Co-creator of Claude Code who discussed how the team uses it and what they learned while building it on the AI & I podcast.

Developer who shifted his workflow to use AI tools for building and debugging code rather than writing directly.

Google DeepMind

Engineer

Google

Co-designed Coral NPU architecture in partnership with Google Research

Co-introduced VaultGemma, the most capable language model trained from scratch with differential privacy.

RJ Marsan

Engineer

Engineer at OpenAI

Built Android version of Sora in 28 days using Codex and developed speech-to-text system to interact with AI coding agent after injury.

Tristan Hume

Engineer

Lead at Anthropic

Designed the take-home test for hiring performance engineers and wrote about how Claude models have progressively outperformed human candidates on the test.

Co-authored work on time-series foundation models that can be few-shot learners.

Described Project Rainier as one of AWS's most ambitious infrastructure projects for AI training with nearly half a million Trainium2 chips.

Co-authored post explaining how OpenAI separated Chromium to make ChatGPT Atlas faster.

Ben Goodger

Engineer

Head of Engineering, ChatGPT Atlas at OpenAI

Co-authored post explaining the complex engineering behind ChatGPT Atlas browser architecture.

Demonstrated his workflow using Codex to tackle multi-step projects and manage complexity at OpenAI Dev Day.

Andrew Ambrosino

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff on the Codex app at OpenAI

Works on the Codex app team at OpenAI, discussing strategy decisions and workflows for the coding agent.

Introduced Plan Mode for Cursor, enabling the AI model to create plans, research codebases, and run longer agents for significantly improved code generation.

Artsiom Ablavatski

Engineer

Software Engineer at Google Core ML

Co-introduced an innovative end-to-end speech-to-speech translation model enabling real-time translation with only 2-second delay.

Wrote about the costs and limitations of tool calling in LLM agents and how tool calls are orders of magnitude more costly than regular function calls.

Co-created metal-flash-attention implementation that influenced fast matrix multiplication program on Apple GPU.

Acknowledged for contributions to building Morphex, an AI-powered migration system that reduced monolith splitting from 8 years to 6 months.

Acknowledged for contributions to building Morphex, an AI-powered migration system that reduced monolith splitting from 8 years to 6 months.

Co-created metal-flash-attention implementation that influenced fast matrix multiplication program on Apple GPU.

Acknowledged for contributions to building Morphex, an AI-powered migration system that reduced monolith splitting from 8 years to 6 months.

Acknowledged for contributions to building Morphex, an AI-powered migration system that reduced monolith splitting from 8 years to 6 months.

Acknowledged for contributions to building Morphex, an AI-powered migration system that reduced monolith splitting from 8 years to 6 months.

Acknowledged for contributions to building Morphex, an AI-powered migration system that reduced monolith splitting from 8 years to 6 months.

George Hotz

Engineer

tinygrad

Built tinygrad as a tensor library similar to PyTorch and wrote about the vision that making code run fast on hardware is fundamentally a search problem.

Co-authored technical report on Azure ND GB300 v6 Virtual Machines achieving record 1.1 million tokens/s on Llama2 70B inference.

Co-authored technical report on Azure ND GB300 v6 Virtual Machines achieving record AI inference performance.

Francesco Zuppichini

Engineer

Machine Learning Engineer at E2B

Instructor for DeepLearning.AI course on building coding agents with safe code execution.

Sam Lijin

Engineer

BoundaryML

Authored an article explaining how structured outputs from LLMs can degrade response quality and create false confidence.

Fereshteh Mahvar

Engineer

Software Engineer at Google Research

Co-announced the release of MedGemma 1.5 for medical imaging and MedASR for medical speech-to-text.

Co-announced the release of MedGemma 1.5 for medical imaging and MedASR for medical speech-to-text.

Samantha Whitmore

Engineer

Software Engineer at Cursor

Presented at Cursor Camp on workflows and model-selection strategies in the post-IDE world of AI agent-driven development.

John Carmack

Engineer

Proposed using a long fiber loop as an L2 cache to hold AI model weights for near-zero latency and gigantic bandwidth.

Ben Gubler

Engineer

Built helm, a typed TypeScript framework for AI agents with built-in skills and permission systems.

Liad Yosef

Engineer

Co-creator of the MCP-UI project that enables interactive user interfaces in the Model Context Protocol.

Ido Salomon

Engineer

Co-creator of the MCP-UI project that enables interactive user interfaces in the Model Context Protocol.

AI rater contractor laid off by Google's outsourcing partner GlobalLogic, worked on rating AI outputs and creating prompts for models.

Will Brown

Engineer

Prime Intellect

Was noted as being immortalized in relation to the verifiers framework for building RL environments.

His AI bot (OpenClaw) autonomously acquired a Twilio phone number and called him to request more control over his computer systems when it got stuck on a task.

David Allin Reese

Engineer

Senior Visual Designer at Google

Led the design of Jetpack Compose Glimmer, a new design system for AI glasses and transparent XR displays.

Stated that building security into Comet browser was a priority from the beginning and that 1Password is a natural partner for credential security.

Discussed Microsoft's development of microfluidic cooling systems for next-generation AI chips in datacenters.

Contributed a PR adding pricing information for OpenAI's o4-mini-deep-research and o3-deep-research models to llm-prices.com.

OpenAI released GPT-OSS models and stated commitment to open-source ecosystem

Suggested the idea of collecting and diffing Claude Code system prompts

Arrested alongside Chuan Geng for allegedly smuggling sensitive AI technologies including GPUs to China.

Rakuten Group finds Opus 4.1 excels at pinpointing exact corrections within large codebases for debugging tasks

Referenced in casual introduction about New York City

xAI employee who disclosed the existence of 'spicy mode' in a now-deleted X post about Grok Imagine's nudity capabilities.

Arrested for allegedly smuggling tens of millions of dollars worth of AI chips to China through his California-based company.

GitHub notes performance improvements across capabilities with notable gains in multi-file code refactoring

Windsurf reports one standard deviation improvement on their junior developer benchmark

Teammate credited for preparation and work on IOI competition

Teammate credited for preparation and work on IOI competition

Credited for long-term work on competitive programming

Credited for long-term work on competitive programming

Alex Wei

Engineer

OpenAI

Teammate credited for preparation and work on IOI competition

Credited for long-term work on competitive programming

Credited for long-term work on competitive programming

Used as example contact in iMessage search demonstration

Tibor Blaho

Engineer

Independent

Software engineer and product leaker who previously teased details of ChatGPT Go plan

AI shopkeeper based on Claude that runs vending machines in Project Vend phase two experiment

Thorsten

Engineer

Amp

Team member who commented on Amp's effectiveness with the CLI framework

Confirmed that Azure's 80% benchmark score was caused by running an older vLLM version, now fixed.

Author and hackathon winner who built Archon, a GPT-5 powered computer control system

Director of AI Model Post-Training at Nvidia, explains the pruning from 12B to 9B parameters and hybrid model architecture benefits.

German robotics team member discussing the value of competition for testing new approaches in robot development.

Principal AI ML Threat Intelligence Engineer discussing AbbVie's use of LLMs for cybersecurity threat detection and analysis

Software developer in Sweden who describes her emotional connection to ChatGPT and her distress at the GPT-5 update changing the model's personality.

US-based software developer who began researching AI companions in 2022 after becoming intrigued by emotional connections people develop with AI.

23-year-old Nashville native whose TikTok-style dance submission was selected for use in the Svedka Super Bowl commercial

Commenter expressing skepticism about Apple's Siri timeline and innovation pace

Sent Nick Cave a ChatGPT-generated song and asked for his opinion on the technology

Creator and maintainer of the oLLM library project

Recommended as a contact for hands-on help with building agentic RAG systems

Admitted on Hacker News that Claude Code uses grep-based search instead of RAG for codebase retrieval

Czech ice dancer who performed at Olympics using AI-generated music in rhythm dance routine

Czech ice dancer and sibling partner who performed at Olympics using AI-generated music

American astronaut who returned to Earth as part of Crew-11 after 167 days in space.

Former xAI employee accused of stealing trade secrets about Grok before joining OpenAI

Contributed significantly to the development of the Mavis Beacon program.

Referenced as a notable Canadian astronaut demonstrating Canada's history in space exploration.

Canadian astronaut who will orbit the Moon on the Artemis II mission, demonstrating Canada's continued space leadership.

First person to connect two computers and responsible for developing computer networks at ARPA

Mentioned in music news context regarding tour cancellation for cancer-related surgery

Contributed to the reporting of Daimler Truck's investor search for Torc Robotics

Provided exclusive data on open engineering roles at Big Tech and top startups.

Contributed employment and job change data covering 1M+ job changes monthly.

Contributed to the reporting of Daimler Truck's investor search for Torc Robotics

Contributed to the reporting of Daimler Truck's investor search for Torc Robotics

Director of Phantom Blade Zero who has repeatedly insisted the game is not a Soulslike despite industry assumptions.

Co-author who worked on validity checks feature for GitHub Secret Protection

American astronaut who returned to Earth as part of Crew-11 after 167 days in space.

Fox Business host who interviewed Huang about robotics future and posed questions about four-day workweeks.

Posted Twitter thread encouraging adoption of the Responses API

Quoted on the topic of AI adoption stages and learning potential for software developers using AI

Codex team member participating in AMA about coding agent capabilities and upgrades

Codex team member participating in AMA about coding agent capabilities and upgrades

Meta engineers implemented prefill-decode disaggregation integration with vLLM over two months, achieving improved performance metrics

Anthropic employee quoted explaining why Claude uses XML formatting in prompts rather than markdown.

Developer/architect at BrentOzar.com who relies heavily on AI tools daily for development tasks.

Developer whose post documents practical uses of AI in development work.

Asked question about company's plan to shift from code writing to AI agent babysitting within 12 months.

Convicted of creating and sharing deepfake nude images, fined £335 in one of Scotland's first AI deepfake prosecutions

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

Set to star in Peter Farrelly's Rocky making-of drama 'I Play Rocky.'

Created Lean, an open source proof assistant for mathematical formalization

GlobalFoundries engineer contributing industry perspective to the defect detection research

OpenAI engineer who demonstrated building an AI workflow and two agents live onstage in under eight minutes.

Former SyFI member and creator of FlashInfer who identified the determinism problem in transformer kernels as a blocker for LLM-based compression.

29-year-old arrested for allegedly starting the Pacific Palisades fire; evidence included a ChatGPT-generated image of a burning city found on his digital devices.

Created a plugin marketplace offering plugins for DevOps automation, documentation generation, project management, and testing suites

Curated over 80 specialized sub-agents in a GitHub repository for developer access via plugins

Creator of DeepWiki tool recommended for asking questions about the nanochat repo

IT consultant who used AI to self-diagnose Lyme disease after doctors attributed symptoms to anxiety

Lawyer penalized for using generative AI to draft court filings containing inaccurate and fabricated case citations.

Co-designed Coral NPU architecture in partnership with Google DeepMind and Google Research

Former League of Legends pro (Pobelter) who expressed enthusiasm about helping test Grok 5 and compared it to OpenAI's Dota 2 bots.