People

Vol. I No. 26 Saturday, October 17, 2026 Closing 12:53 PM UTC · next edition 10:00 AM UTC

People

Who writes the Columns, and who the news keeps naming. Each page: their own posts, and what the paper's sources said about them.

swyx (Shawn Wang)Co-host of the Latent Space podcast on AI engineering.37 by them · 1 about them · 30 days
Bruce SchneierSecurity technologist; author of Applied Cryptography.22 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Raymond ChenLongtime Windows engineer at Microsoft; writes The Old New Thing.15 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Ben ThompsonWrites Stratechery, on the business and strategy of technology.14 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Gergely OroszWrites The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter; formerly an engineering manager at Uber.12 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Zvi MowshowitzWrites Don't Worry About the Vase, a weekly roundup on AI.12 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Martin FowlerAuthor of Refactoring; chief scientist at Thoughtworks.11 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Sean GoedeckeSoftware engineer writing about how work gets done in large tech companies.11 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Daniel StenbergFounder and lead developer of curl.8 by them · 1 about them · 30 days
Dylan PatelFounder of SemiAnalysis, research on chips and AI infrastructure.7 by them · 2 about them · 30 days
Simon WillisonCo-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes almost daily about LLMs and the tools around them.8 by them · 1 about them · 30 days
Jeremy KeithWeb designer; author of Resilient Web Design and a co-founder of Clearleft.8 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Nathan LambertResearcher at the Allen Institute for AI; writes Interconnects.5 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Timothy B. LeeJournalist; writes the Understanding AI newsletter.5 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
David Heinemeier HanssonCreator of Ruby on Rails; co-founder of 37signals.3 by them · 1 about them · 30 days
Eli BenderskySoftware engineer writing about compilers, Go and Python.4 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
George HotzFounder of comma.ai and of tiny corp, maker of tinygrad.4 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Jack ClarkCo-founder of Anthropic; writes the Import AI newsletter.4 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Jensen HuangCo-founder and chief executive of Nvidia.4 about them · 30 days
Sebastian RaschkaAuthor of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).4 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Alex KladovCreator of rust-analyzer; engineer at TigerBeetle.3 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Charity MajorsCo-founder of Honeycomb; writes about observability and engineering management.2 by them · 1 about them · 30 days
Dwarkesh PatelHost of the Dwarkesh Podcast.2 by them · 1 about them · 30 days
Murat DemirbasDistributed systems researcher writing about the field's papers.3 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Sam AltmanCo-founder and chief executive of OpenAI.0 by them · 3 about them · 30 days
Thorsten BallAuthor of Writing An Interpreter In Go.3 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Xe IasoEngineer and writer; creator of Anubis, which shields sites from scrapers.3 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Yoshua BengioTuring Award winner; founder of Mila, the Quebec AI institute.3 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Armin RonacherCreator of Flask.2 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Ethan MollickProfessor at Wharton; author of Co-Intelligence.2 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Hamel HusainMachine learning engineer and consultant; writes about evaluating AI products.2 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Marc BrookerEngineer at AWS writing about distributed systems.2 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Zach LeathermanCreator of Eleventy.2 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Alex RussellWeb platform engineer writing about browsers and web performance.1 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Beren MillidgeAI researcher writing about alignment and the brain.1 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Dan AbramovCo-author of Redux; long on the React team.1 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Dan LuuEngineer writing long, data-driven essays on hardware, software and the industry.1 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Drew DeVaultFounder of SourceHut.1 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Elon MuskFounder of xAI; an OpenAI co-founder.1 about them · 30 days
Fei-Fei LiStanford professor, creator of ImageNet, co-founder of World Labs.1 about them · 30 days
Greg BrockmanCo-founder and president of OpenAI.0 by them · 1 about them · 30 days
Jake ArchibaldWeb developer writing about browsers and web standards.1 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Jason WeiAI researcher, known for the work on chain-of-thought prompting.1 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Julia EvansWrites zines and posts that explain how computers work.1 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Kellan Elliott-McCreaEngineering leader; formerly chief technology officer of Etsy.1 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Kent C. DoddsJavaScript teacher; creator of Testing Library.1 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Lea VerouWeb standards expert; author of CSS Secrets.1 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Max WoolfData scientist writing about generative AI and its tools.1 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Mitchell HashimotoCo-founder of HashiCorp; creator of the Ghostty terminal.1 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Satya NadellaChief executive of Microsoft.1 about them · 30 days
Stephen WolframFounder of Wolfram Research; creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha.1 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Tim DettmersAI researcher known for QLoRA and low-bit quantization.1 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Addy OsmaniEngineering leader at Google, long on Chrome.0 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Andrej KarpathyAI researcher and teacher; a founding member of OpenAI, later Tesla's director of AI.0 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Charlie O'NeillAI researcher; writes on his own blog.0 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Chip HuyenAuthor of AI Engineering and Designing Machine Learning Systems.0 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Dario AmodeiCo-founder and chief executive of Anthropic.0 about them · 30 days
Demis HassabisCo-founder of DeepMind; leads Google DeepMind.0 about them · 30 days
Dominik DorfmeisterMaintainer of TanStack Query, known as TkDodo.0 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Eugene YanMachine learning engineer writing about recommender systems and LLM products.0 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Geoffrey HintonTuring Award and Nobel laureate for his work on neural networks.0 about them · 30 days
Guido van RossumCreator of Python.0 about them · 30 days
Hillel WayneWrites and teaches about formal methods and TLA+.0 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Ilya SutskeverOpenAI co-founder; co-founder of Safe Superintelligence.0 about them · 30 days
Jack VanlightlyEngineer writing about distributed data systems and verifying them.0 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Jay AlammarAuthor of The Illustrated Transformer; co-author of Hands-On Large Language Models.0 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Jeremy HowardCo-founder of fast.ai and Answer.AI.0 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Jessie FrazelleEngineer known for her work on containers and Docker.0 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Lilian WengAI researcher, long at OpenAI; writes long surveys on her blog, Lil'Log.0 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Linus TorvaldsCreator of Linux and Git.0 about them · 30 days
Mark ZuckerbergFounder and chief executive of Meta.0 about them · 30 days
Mira MuratiFormer chief technology officer of OpenAI; founder of Thinking Machines Lab.0 about them · 30 days
Mustafa SuleymanCo-founder of DeepMind; leads Microsoft AI.0 about them · 30 days
Salvatore SanfilippoCreator of Redis, known as antirez.0 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Steve YeggeEngineer known for his essays on software and the industry.0 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Sundar PichaiChief executive of Google and Alphabet.0 about them · 30 days
Vicki BoykisMachine learning engineer writing about ML systems.0 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Werner VogelsChief technology officer of Amazon; writes All Things Distributed.0 by them · 0 about them · 30 days
Yann LeCunTuring Award winner; long Meta's chief AI scientist.0 about them · 30 days