VIBERS

People and companies to know in AI. Explore their work, ideas, and experience.

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JohnnyFSE

JohnnyFSE is a public civic-technology builder and the creator of CourtWatch.live. The project organizes Florida public court records into a searchable presentation of pretrial release failures.

Start with CourtWatch.live

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Kyle McDonald

Kyle McDonald is an artist working with code, machine learning and computer vision. He makes installations and public experiments, and builds tools for other artists.

Start with Apocalypse Early Warning System

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Sergey Alexashenko

Sergey Alexashenko prototypes AI projects and publishes the How the Hell newsletter. He previously cofounded Rostra and worked at Substack and Truebill; his projects include the browser game Sweep the Strait.

Start with Sweep the Strait

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Brandon Strittmatter

Brandon Strittmatter leads experience and design at Cloudflare and cofounded Outerbase. His work includes database interfaces and GPUTable, a compact comparison site for cloud GPU rental listings.

Start with GPUTable

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Jack Butcher

Jack Butcher is a conceptual artist and founder of Visualize Value. He uses constrained images, digital editions and participatory systems to examine value, verification and the ways people assign meaning to symbols.

Start with Checks

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이지강

이지강 builds SkillsMP, a directory for discovering community agent skills. The project connects skill descriptions and search filters with their original GitHub repositories.

Start with SkillsMP

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Matthew Berman

Matthew Berman is Forward Future’s founder and an AI educator and publisher. He previously founded Sonar and now publishes interviews, practical AI guides and a collection of repeatable agent workflows.

Start with Loop Library and Loopy

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Jun Kim

Jun Kim is cofounder and CEO of Aside, an AI browser. His earlier product work includes Airbridge and Cosmo, and he has built software and developer communities since childhood.

Start with Aside

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Jeffrey Emanuel

Jeffrey Emanuel builds tools for coordinating AI coding agents and is founder and CEO of Lumera Network, formerly Pastel Network. His earlier career was in equity research and investing.

Start with MCP Agent Mail (Rust)

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Joshua Wolk

Joshua Wolk is a Design Engineer at Vercel and the creator of Train Jazz. His work combines interface design, frontend engineering and playful visual or musical interpretations of public data.

Start with NYC Subway Jazz

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Larry Cermak

Larry Cermak is President of The Block, where he focuses on research, data and product. He is the lead author of How Crypto Actually Works, a freely published technical book developed with coauthors and specialist reviewers.

Start with How Crypto Actually Works

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Henry Zhang

Henry Zhang is a member of technical staff at SpaceXAI. His public projects include SwarmCore, a Python library for composing agents into workflows, and femtoGPT, an experiment that encodes a small language-model program as a number.

Start with SwarmCore

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Alonso

Alonso is the public name of an independent developer who builds web products and component libraries. RuneScapeCN adapts a RuneScape-inspired visual style to components that developers copy into their own applications.

Start with runescapecn

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Andrew Mayne

Andrew Mayne is a writer, inventor and AI educator who hosts The OpenAI Podcast. He founded Interdimensional and is a general partner at Zero Shot Fund, following earlier work as OpenAI’s first prompt engineer and science communicator.

Start with Why Tejal Patwardhan stopped underestimating the models - Episode 21

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Elijah Newren

Elijah Newren is a Staff Software Engineer at GitHub and a contributor to Git. He designed and implemented the merge-ort strategy, created git-filter-repo and has worked extensively on sparse checkout.

Start with git-filter-repo

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Benedict Evans

Benedict Evans is an independent technology analyst and a Venture Partner at Mosaic Ventures. He writes essays and a newsletter about technology markets, adoption and the questions that follow a new platform.

Start with AI, tools and transformation

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Emily Pontecorvo

Emily Pontecorvo is a founding staff writer at Heatmap, reporting on energy and decarbonization. Her work connects technology, policy and the practical decisions that determine whether lower-emission systems get built.

Start with Net Power Surrendered Its Clean Dreams to Data Center Demand

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Cristian Crețu

Cristian Crețu is a design engineer at Anara and the creator of Penflow and Diri. His work combines interface design, small visual tools and software for managing coding agents.

Start with Penflow

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Denis Yurchak

Denis Yurchak is an independent software builder whose products include Yadaphone, eSIMPal and browser-based learning tools. He shares practical material on running coding agents and deploying small web products.

Start with Claude VPS Setup Prompt

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Anthony Castrio

Anthony Castrio is a software developer and cofounder of ApplyAll. His independent work spans founder communities, newsletters and interactive maps, including a cartogram that reshapes New York around subway travel time.

Start with NYC Commute POV

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Zach Griff

Zach Griff publishes From the Tray Table, an independent travel publication, and builds browser tools for travelers. His background includes nearly eight years covering travel at The Points Guy and an MBA from Wharton.

Start with TSA Wait Times Dashboard

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Charles Blain

Charles Blain is the founder and editor of Local Insights, a Houston-based civic-data project. He leads reporting, public-records research, verification and product direction for tools and investigations about Texas government.

Start with When Texas Says No

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Michael Millerman

Michael Millerman is a writer and teacher of political philosophy, founder of Millerman School and Millerman Intelligence. His work includes books, translations, close-reading courses and interactive philosophical experiments.

Start with Stimmung

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Vincent Sunn Chen

Vincent Sunn Chen works on data and evaluation systems for frontier AI and is on Snorkel AI’s founding team. His research connects weak supervision, critical data subsets and evaluation of increasingly capable agents.

Start with Slice-based Learning: A Programming Model for Residual Learning in Critical Data Slices

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Jake Cooper

Jake Cooper founded Railway, a cloud deployment platform whose interfaces increasingly serve coding agents.

Start with Railway: The Agent-Native Cloud

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Owen

Owen, known as bad-auth on GitHub and bad_auth on X, develops software around Hyperliquid market data. The L4 Book Visualizer exposes individual orders and their positions in an order-book queue.

Start with L4 Book Visualizer

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ultra

ultra is the public professional handle of a developer building crypto products at Kalshi. Their independent utilities include Authorized, a browser tool for drafting letters of authorization.

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Ben Horwitz

Ben Horwitz works on startups at OpenAI and created Sinceerly, a Gmail extension that rewrites polished AI drafts into a more informal style. He previously cofounded Causeway and invested through Dorm Room Fund.

Start with Sincerely

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Kyle Yu

Kyle Yu is a software engineer at Tensordyne building infrastructure at the hardware-software boundary. He created BrrrViz to explain GPU programming concepts through interactive visualizations.

Start with BrrrViz

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Michael Grinich

Michael Grinich is founder and CEO of WorkOS, which provides identity and enterprise infrastructure through developer APIs. His agent-authentication work addresses how software obtains an account, proves delegated identity and receives usable credentials.

Start with Auth for Agents: Let AI Sign Up for Your Product with auth.md

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Ryan Li

Ryan Li is Surf AI’s cofounder and CEO. He builds AI tools for crypto research and has written a detailed account of using parallel coding agents to optimize a strategy in a simulated prediction-market challenge.

Start with AI Autoresearch Strategy Generator

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Sam Ragsdale

Sam Ragsdale is CEO and founder of Merit Systems. His work spans agentic commerce, open-source funding and engineering for verifiable computation, following earlier roles at a16z crypto and Google.

Start with Open Agentic Commerce

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Ash Nouruzi

Ash Nouruzi is a developer-relations practitioner and product designer at Coinbase Developer Platform. Their projects demonstrate agent workflows, including a paid SEO-analysis application using x402.

Start with SEO Gap Analyzer

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Anita Chen

Anita Chen makes interactive maps and games, combining public datasets with geographic visualization. Her projects include animated subway ridership, language maps and geography games.

Start with NYC Riders

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Lukas Frohlich

Lukas Frohlich publishes trading research as The Short Bear. His public work examines how company financing, market structure and disciplined review shape a trading process.

Start with Chat With Traders: Lukas Frohlich

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Jamie Burke

Jamie Burke founded Outlier Ventures and now chairs the firm. His public research explores how AI agents and blockchain systems could change the way people discover services and delegate work.

Start with The Disappearing Web — The Post Web, Episode 1

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Jason Yanowitz

Jason Yanowitz co-founded Blockworks, a media, data and software business focused on digital assets. He also builds small software projects, connecting his experience in publishing and startups with hands-on product experiments.

Start with Bitcoin, crypto and entrepreneurship with Jason Yanowitz

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Dinesh Kannaujiya

Dinesh Kannaujiya develops React Native applications and React web products. His open-source work exposes Android platform capabilities through typed interfaces for JavaScript developers.

Start with React Native CallLogs Android

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Will Manidis

Will Manidis is an entrepreneur and writer who founded ScienceIO, a healthcare language-model company acquired by Veradigm. He also builds public research tools, including a state-level tracker of proposed data-center restrictions.

Start with Data Center Moratoriums

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Yi Tay

Yi Tay is a principal research scientist at Google DeepMind on the Gemini team and leads its Singapore Gemini and generative-AI group. His research includes language-model pretraining, post-training and methods that generate document identifiers to retrieve information.

Start with Yi Tay on Latent Space

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Dylan Bristot

Dylan Bristot is a product marketer working on Nebius Token Factory and a builder of AI research and model-selection tools. His work connects the infrastructure behind model deployment with explanations of what developers need to run agents in production.

Start with Agent 101: Launching production-grade agents at scale

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Pliny the Liberator

Pliny the Liberator is a public pseudonym used by an AI security researcher and open-source developer. Their interviews and published projects examine model behavior, red teaming and transparency in AI systems.

Start with ⚡️Jailbreaking AGI: Pliny the Liberator & John V on Red Teaming, BT6, and the Future of AI Security

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Patrick O’Shaughnessy

Patrick O’Shaughnessy is founder and CEO of Positive Sum and founder of Colossus. Through Invest Like the Best, he interviews investors and company builders about the decisions and systems behind their work.

Start with GPUs, TPUs, & The Economics of AI Explained | Gavin Baker Interview

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Gavin Baker

Gavin Baker is the founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Atreides Management. His public discussions of AI focus on the economics of computing infrastructure, chips, power and the software businesses built around them.

Start with GPUs, TPUs, & The Economics of AI Explained | Gavin Baker Interview

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Anastasios Nikolas Angelopoulos

Anastasios Nikolas Angelopoulos is cofounder and CEO of Arena and a researcher in reliable machine learning and statistics. His work connects uncertainty guarantees for model predictions with evaluation based on human preferences.

Start with A Gentle Introduction to Conformal Prediction

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Greg Kamradt

Greg Kamradt is president and a board member of ARC Prize Foundation, which develops evaluations of whether AI can solve unfamiliar problems. He also builds software and teaches practical AI development.

Start with Needle in a Haystack

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Chris Goldammer

Chris Goldammer is an economist, data scientist and independent builder working on urban data. His projects use New York City zoning, construction and property records to make changes in the built environment easier to explore.

Start with Potential.NYC

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Dylan Field

Dylan Field co-founded Figma with Evan Wallace and leads the company as CEO. Figma brought collaborative interface design into the browser, letting people work together on the same design instead of passing files between tools.

Start with Figma’s IPO: Design is everyone’s business

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Nathan Labenz

Nathan Labenz hosts The Cognitive Revolution, a podcast about AI research and its practical consequences. He founded and formerly led Waymark, a company that uses AI to help businesses create video advertising.

Start with How Agents Decide: Eric Bigelow

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Casey Handmer

Casey Handmer is the founder and CEO of Terraform Industries and a writer on energy, engineering and industrial scale. His work is relevant to AI through a concrete question: how to supply the electricity and physical infrastructure needed by large computing systems.

Start with China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer

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