People in AI

Editor introduction to the article, providing framing context

Simon Willison

Engineer

Programmer

Pointed out on X that AI-written work lacks weight and emotional investment

Co-author of the article about Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image release

Co-author of the article about Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image release

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.

Co-author of the article about Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image release

Katie Parrott

Engineer

Staff Writer at Every

Staff writer at Every who collaborated on writing about the Kairos product launch

Co-author of the article announcing Veo 3 updates on the Google Developers Blog

Steve Yegge

Engineer

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

Co-author of the article about Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image release

Built the new search feature for Sparkle using a research subagent to analyze how other apps approached indexing and performance.

Briefly mentioned in relation to analyzing error logs with subagents, but context is incomplete in the article.

AI rater hired in 2023 who discusses lack of pay increases, demanding project work, and workplace stress with tight task timers

Co-author of the article introducing Veo 3.1 and Flow enhancements

Logan Kilpatrick

Engineer

Unknown at Google

Co-author of the article announcing Google AI Studio updates

Co-author of the article introducing Veo 3.1 and Flow enhancements

Coder providing perspective on IDE preferences and comparisons between Cursor 2.0, Composer 1 Alpha, and competing tools

Praised Devstral 2 for delivering tool-calling success rate on par with best closed models in their platform

Machine-learning scientist who left Meta after joining weeks ago.

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

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.

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.

Leads engineering for Claude Cowork and Claude Code Desktop, demonstrating practical applications of Claude in various workflows.

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.

Nearly nine-year Meta veteran with experience on LLM pre-training, recruited by Thinking Machines Lab.

Co-author of the article announcing Gemma 3 270M model

Explains that good code reviews catch bugs, teach knowledge, and help teams move faster with fewer mistakes

Co-author of the article announcing Gemma 3 270M model

Advises on keeping pull requests small and focused, and recommends self-review practices before requesting team review

Will

Engineer

Unknown at Prime Intellect

Contact person for claiming bounties on RFCs and environments via X or GitHub PR

Johannes

Engineer

Unknown at Prime Intellect

Contact person for claiming bounties on RFCs and environments via X or GitHub PR

Author of the article about Character.AI's logging system infrastructure

Author of the blog post on parallelism mesh strategies for LLM training

Author of the article on 8-bit rotational quantization for vector search

First GTM engineer at Clay who explores AI usage by probing candidates about nuances learned over time

Co-author of the article about GitHub Copilot's impact on security workflows

Engineering intern who directed Copilot through the process of onboarding new token types

Engineering intern who directed Copilot through the process of onboarding new token types

Co-founder of Ghost Town Games who worked with Duncan to develop Overcooked and spent 2016 developing downloadable content for the retail version

Faraaz

Engineer

Author/Engineer at Unknown

Author of the blog post about making AI coding agents more efficient

Listed as article author and joined as Registry Maintainer from Anthropic to drive the project towards launch

Toby Padilla

Engineer

Head of MCP at GitHub

Listed as article author and joined as Registry Maintainer, Head of MCP at GitHub

Listed as article author

Collaborated with Tadas Antanavicius on the initial registry effort from Block

Made crucial contributions to the MCP Registry project from Stacklok

Made crucial contributions to the MCP Registry project from GitHub

Made crucial contributions to the MCP Registry project from VS Code

Made crucial contributions to the MCP Registry project from NuGet

Made crucial contributions to the MCP Registry project from Last9

Co-author of the article announcing EmbeddingGemma

Co-author of the article announcing EmbeddingGemma

Co-author of the article announcing EmbeddingGemma

Co-author of the article announcing Gemini Batch API extensions

Co-author of the article announcing Gemini Batch API extensions

The Replit Team

Engineer

Author at Replit

The article is authored by The Replit Team announcing the new Agent 3 features.

Article authors describing Character.AI's logging infrastructure and system improvements

Quoted explaining how x402 and AP2 enable agent-to-agent payments with stablecoins

Article author and co-led overall research and execution of the ICPC 2025 project

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Directed the 'Wasted' video demo showcasing Ray3 capabilities

Author of the blog post about parallelism mesh strategies for LLM training

Teacher from Texas hired as one of the first super raters for Google's AI products; discusses wage disparities and union organizing efforts

Quoted expressing Confluent's support for AP2 and expertise in data streaming for payments ecosystem

Article author and led overall technical direction for Gemini competitive programming and ICPC 2025 efforts

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Quoted explaining how stablecoins solve scaling challenges for agentic systems

Lead contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Listed as a team member associated with the NotebookLM project.

Directed the 'Subway' video demo for Luma AI Ray3

Cited for writing about coding with AI on their blog

Lead on Claude Code who applied the Bitter Lesson to AI engineering approach

Co-author of the article about DeepMind's generative AI design project

Co-author of the Tunix library introduction article on Google Developers Blog

Co-author of the article announcing Jules Tools CLI for Google

Fictional example used to illustrate onboarding workflow automation with action agents

Member of the Gemini Robotics team that developed Gemini Robotics 1.5

Member of the Gemini Robotics team that developed Gemini Robotics 1.5

Created a tool for search funds to reach out to potential partners

Built a GPT to help government officials understand economic development reports

Created the self-command MCP tool extension for Gemini CLI

Created the gemini-cli-gopls extension integrating Go language server with Gemini CLI

Skild AI Team

Engineer

Research Team at Skild AI

Authors of the article on omni-bodied robot brains and creators of the AI model trained on 100,000 different robot bodies

Co-author of the article about DeepMind's generative AI design project

Author and publisher of the article announcing Tinker API

Co-author of the Google Blog article about CodeMender

Member of the Gemini Robotics team that developed Gemini Robotics 1.5

Member of the Gemini Robotics team that developed Gemini Robotics 1.5

Expected to improve the prompt; author expresses expectation that John Berryman will enhance the prompt engineering

Created a GPT for developing common language around performance reviews

Prototyped a GPT to help real estate investors analyze rent rolls and deal memorandums

Automated the process of creating customer journeys and finding product pain points

Robby Stein

Engineer

Author at Google

Co-author of the article announcing AI Mode updates to Google Search

Created the Telegram extension for Gemini CLI

Created the gemini-cli-git extension providing Git commands for Gemini CLI

Co-author of the Tunix library introduction article on Google Developers Blog

Co-author of the article announcing Jules Tools CLI for Google

Co-author of the Google Blog article about CodeMender

Wrote about using coding agents in September 2025, describing workflow for parallel agents

Member of the Gemini Robotics team that developed Gemini Robotics 1.5

Member of the Gemini Robotics team that developed Gemini Robotics 1.5

Built a GPT to automate creation of social media posts from thought leadership reports

Crafted a GPT that guides potential acquirers through due diligence

Developed a GPT that builds character sheets for roleplaying games

Co-author of the article announcing AI Mode updates to Google Search

Created the ToolsForMCPServer extension for Gemini CLI

Created the gemini-superpowers extension for Gemini CLI

Coined the term 'characterization testing' in his book 'Working Effectively with Legacy Code'

Suspect arrested for allegedly starting the Palisades Fire on January 1st, used ChatGPT to create dystopian art and ask questions about fire responsibility

Main subject of the article who used AI to help diagnose his Lyme disease after receiving anxiety diagnosis from his GP

Co-author of the article announcing the Gemini CLI interactive shell enhancement

Demonstrates the object permanence test with keys and caps, explaining essential capabilities for domestic robots

Co-author of the article on Meta's Backbone connectivity scaling for AI

Co-author of the article on Meta's Backbone connectivity scaling for AI

Co-author of the article announcing the Gemini CLI interactive shell enhancement

Co-author of the article announcing Grounding with Google Maps in the Gemini API

Co-author of the article announcing new logs and datasets features in Google AI Studio

Co-author of the article on building a custom Vision LLM for document processing at Grab

Co-author of the article on building a custom Vision LLM for document processing at Grab

Co-author of the article on building a custom Vision LLM for document processing at Grab

Co-author of the article on building a custom Vision LLM for document processing at Grab

Credited for long-term work on competitive programming

Referenced as author of a Hopper Tensor Core tutorial in CUDA C++ with PTX

Attended OpenClaw meet-up in Beijing and commented on its popularity.

Le Duc Anh Vu

Engineer

Security Researcher at Viettel Cyber Security

Hacked the Cursor AI coding agent for $30,000 during Pwn2Own Berlin 2026.

Co-founder of Ghost Town Games who developed Overcooked and wrote a game design deep dive article about the game's cooperative mechanics

Listed as article author and spearheaded the initial registry effort from PulseMCP

Demonstrated an OpenAI Codex zero-day vulnerability for $20,000 at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026.

Design engineer at Every who helped bring Monologue to iOS and collaborated on sound design and interface details

Editor of the article

Co-developer of ENIAC, the first programmable electronic general-purpose digital computer introduced in 1945.

Co-developer of ENIAC, the first programmable electronic general-purpose digital computer introduced in 1945.

Referenced as having made a new announcement about mobile app development capabilities

Director of the concert film 'What Happened To The Earth?'

Producer of AURORA's 'What Happened To The Heart?' album and collaborator in new band TOMORA

Referenced in relation to early agentic RL work (Kevin-32B model) at Cognition

Referenced as author of an Ampere Tensor Core tutorial in CUDA C++ with PTX

Referenced as author of an Ampere Tensor Core tutorial in CUDA C++ with PTX

Introduced the author to Claude and its YOLO mode functionality

Created pi tool which the author uses; does not have plan mode

Co-founder described as orchestrating multiple AI coding agents to become a 30-40x engineer

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

Mentioned in sidebar about canceling US tour for cancer-related surgery, not directly related to AI article

AWS Generative AI Worldwide Foundations Lead who developed the technical deep dive course

International music star present at Meta's product launch event

Tech lead for Qwen at Alibaba and keynote speaker on Qwen development

Reported on Claude Code and Cowork taking the AI world by storm

Roscosmos cosmonaut who returned with Kim, completing his third spaceflight with 603 total days in space.

Roscosmos cosmonaut who returned with Kim on his first spaceflight.

Android software engineer discussing the rollout of Emergency Live Video feature to safety platforms.

Referenced for his blog on optimizing CUDA matmul kernels

Actor who plays The Ghoul character in Fallout TV show, whose scenes were misdescribed by Amazon's AI recap tool.

Actor who plays protagonist Lucy MacLean in Fallout, featured in a scene incorrectly summarized by the AI recap.

Subject of a false Apple AI notification summary that incorrectly claimed he shot himself.

Explains Claude Code's technical architecture as a game engine-like rendering pipeline with React scene graphs and ANSI sequence generation.

Co-author of the research paper on intent extraction through decomposition presented at EMNLP 2025

Guillaume Le Moing

Engineer

Google DeepMind

Co-author of the D4RT model research

Mehdi S M Sajjadi

Engineer

Google DeepMind

Co-author of the D4RT model research

Helped the author understand Claude Code's filesystem-first agentic approach and influenced architectural decisions at Fintool

Film and television effects specialist who created the film's visual effects and computer animation

63% of professional developers reported using AI in development; 36,894 developers surveyed on AI benefits

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

Willie Williams

Engineer

Every

Head of platform at Every; discusses how StarCraft taught him parallel task scheduling principles applicable to cooking

Ksenia

Engineer

Turing Post

Interviewer conducting conversation with Nathan Lambert about open models and AI research.

Creator of the open-source coding agent that the author forked for their hobby harness project

R&D lead in Google's Platforms and Devices division and former CEO of Liftware who tested Deep Think for physical component design.

Videographer/Editor and animator for the production.

Videographer for the production.

Animator for the production.

Czech ice dancer who used AI-generated music in her Olympic rhythm dance routine, sparking controversy.

Czech ice dancer and sibling partner who performed with AI-generated music at the Olympics.

British ice dancer referenced as counterexample using traditional licensed music (Spice Girls tribute).

British ice dancer who performed with traditional licensed music in rhythm dance competition.

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

US ice dancer who performed with traditional Lenny Kravitz medley at Olympics.

15-year veteran who caught AI-generated vendor comparison missing critical subsidiary relationship information

Quoted from Joe Rogan Experience explaining why AI-generated content converges to the mean and lacks originality.

Created custom cover art generation for Lyria 3 tracks in Gemini app

Referenced as part of Super Bowl Sunday context alongside OpenAI's Codex advertisement.

Top commenter discussing the potential of prescription lens adjustment in Apple glasses as a game-changing feature for vision correction needs.

AI agent used to build web applications across 19 different frameworks in the token efficiency test

Lead technologist for EUV light sources, discusses the new 1,000-watt system capability and future potential to reach 1,500-2,000 watts.

AWS senior principal engineer explaining Strands Labs' mission to explore frontier agentic AI techniques in collaboration with developers.

Tibor Blaho

Engineer

Independent/Vienna-based

Engineer who discovered the ChatGPT Pro Lite tier by uncovering unreleased features, known for accurate predictions of OpenAI releases.

Maintainer who rejected a PR from an autonomous agent, which subsequently published a critical article about him.

Managing editor who uses AI for first-pass judgment on drafts and pitches to assess potential and fit.

Former xAI engineer accused of stealing trade secrets related to Grok and moving to OpenAI.

Pointed out alignment between QRG additions on main content and Google's page experience documentation

Noted that Gemini models in AI Studio can analyze content to identify main vs supplementary content

Perplexity's Comet agentic browser was examined and found to contain indirect prompt injection vulnerabilities that were reported to the company.

Described the Grok license as having anti-competitive terms

28-year-old computer science graduate and only male member who serves as the group's link to the outside world

Sheryl Estrada

Engineer

Fortune

Fortune colleague who was one of the first to cover the MIT report findings.

Referenced for a detailed blog post example on Amazon Bedrock's Automated Reasoning Checks combining LLMs with SMT solvers

Attended Baidu event to get OpenClaw installed, stating he didn't want to be left behind.