VIBERS

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

151

Thomas Ricouard

Thomas Ricouard works on developer experience for Codex at OpenAI and builds open-source apps for Apple platforms. His projects include Ice Cubes, a Mastodon client, and Codex Monitor, a desktop interface for managing coding-agent work.

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152

Fatih Kadir Akın

Fatih Kadir Akın is an Automattic developer and the creator of prompts.chat, formerly Awesome ChatGPT Prompts. His public work includes prompt-sharing infrastructure, coding-agent utilities and books about JavaScript and prompting.

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153

Chip Huyen

Chip Huyen is a writer and computer scientist focused on bringing AI systems into production. She wrote Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering after working on machine-learning tooling at NVIDIA, Snorkel AI and Netflix.

Start with Designing Machine Learning Systems companion repository

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154

Tobi Lütke

Tobi Lütke co-founded Shopify and has served as its CEO since April 2008. A programmer and former Shopify CTO, he also worked on Ruby on Rails and created open-source libraries including Active Merchant.

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155

Romuald Członkowski

Romuald Członkowski founded AiAdvisors and created n8n-mcp, a bridge that gives AI assistants structured information about n8n automation components. He builds process-automation and document-processing systems and publishes the tools behind that work.

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156

Pieter Levels

Pieter Levels, known as @levelsio, builds and runs internet businesses including Nomads.com, Remote OK, Photo AI and Interior AI. His project archive and blog document a long series of bootstrapped experiments, including the many that did not become lasting businesses.

Start with List of all my projects ever

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157

Dwarkesh Patel

Dwarkesh Patel hosts the Dwarkesh Podcast, a series of long-form interviews about AI and other intellectual subjects. He publishes transcripts and chapter markers alongside conversations with researchers, technology leaders and analysts.

Start with Dylan Patel: Three bottlenecks to scaling AI compute

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158

Anil Chandra Naidu Matcha

Anil Chandra Naidu Matcha publishes open-source generative-media applications and model integrations under the GitHub account Anil-matcha. His projects include an image-and-video studio, a staged short-drama generator and a real-time voice-agent example.

Start with AI Voice Agent

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159

Lilian Weng

Lilian Weng is an AI researcher and the author of Lil’Log, a technical blog explaining machine learning, agents and AI safety. OpenAI confirmed to AI Magazine in September 2026 that she had returned to lead research on accelerating its internal research processes.

Start with LLM Powered Autonomous Agents

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160

Alex Newman

Alex Newman, known as thedotmack on GitHub, created Claude-Mem, an open-source system for carrying useful project context across coding-agent sessions. The project records observations, summarizes them and retrieves relevant notes when work resumes.

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161

Eugene Yan

Eugene Yan is a member of technical staff at Anthropic, focused on building reliable AI systems for customers. He previously worked on recommendations, retrieval and language-model applications at Amazon and led machine-learning teams at Alibaba/Lazada.

Start with Product Evals in Three Simple Steps

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162

Emil Kowalski

Emil Kowalski is a design engineer and educator who created the React components Sonner and Vaul and the Animations on the Web course. His current site says he is taking a break after work at Linear and Vercel.

Start with You Don’t Need Animations

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163

Hunter Bown

Hunter Bown founded ShannonTek and created Codewhale, an open-source terminal coding agent written in Rust. His work includes tools that connect models to code, persistent working state and larger investigations.

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164

Kazuki Yamada

Kazuki Yamada, known as yamadashy, builds tools that make repositories and developer information easier to inspect. His projects include Repomix for packaging a codebase into model-readable context and Duvis for exploring disk use.

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165

Jie Tang

Jie Tang is a computer-science professor at Tsinghua University whose work spans academic search, graph representation learning and large language models. He helped develop AMiner and co-authored the GLM-130B model and NetMF research.

Start with GLM-130B: An Open Bilingual Pre-trained Model

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166

Prince Canuma

Prince Canuma, known as Blaizzy, maintains MLX-VLM and MLX-Audio, libraries for running vision and audio models on Apple Silicon. His work makes different model architectures accessible through shared local inference and application interfaces.

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167

Wez Furlong

Wez Furlong is a systems engineer and co-founder of KumoMTA. He created WezTerm, Watchman and EdenFS and has contributed to the PHP runtime, working across email delivery and developer infrastructure.

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168

Kayla Cinnamon

Kayla Cinnamon is a senior developer advocate at Microsoft and a former product manager for Windows Terminal, PowerToys and Windows developer experiences. Her current tutorials explain how to operate coding agents and review their work across the Copilot app and Visual Studio Code.

Start with How to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS Code

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169

Vasily Zubarev

Vasily Zubarev, known as Vastrik or vas3k, is a software engineer and technical writer. He explains computing through illustrated essays and builds open-source applications including TaxHacker, a self-hosted tool for organizing income and expenses.

Start with Machine Learning for Everyone

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170

Alex Atallah

Alex Atallah is the CEO and co-founder of OpenRouter, a marketplace and common API for accessing language models. He previously co-founded OpenSea and served as its CTO, and co-authored a study of model usage observed through OpenRouter.

Start with OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha

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171

Dmitriy Kovalenko

Dmitriy Kovalenko is a performance engineer working on Codex at OpenAI. He created developer tools including fff for file search, odiff for image comparison and libraries for browser testing and date handling.

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172

Virat Singh

Virat Singh is the founder and CEO of Financial Datasets, which supplies market data to AI applications. He also maintains open-source financial agents, including Dexter, and previously worked on search and payments systems at Faire and Airbnb.

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173

Jack Dorsey

Jack Dorsey is Block’s cofounder, Block Head and chairman, and previously co-founded and led Twitter. His current public writing examines how AI could coordinate work inside companies, alongside the agent software developed by Block’s engineering teams.

Start with From Hierarchy to Intelligence

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174

Santiago Fernández de Valderrama Aparicio

Santiago Fernández de Valderrama Aparicio, known as santifer, builds AI workflows and created career-ops, an open-source job-search assistant. He founded and sold Santifer iRepair, then served as Zinkee’s Head of Applied AI from April to September 2026 before focusing on career-ops.

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175

Jarrod Watts

Jarrod Watts leads AI engineering at the Monad Foundation after several years in developer relations. He builds tools for supervising and coordinating coding agents, including Claude HUD and Claude Delegator, alongside experiments that let AI agents interact with blockchains.

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176

Safi Shamsi

Safi Shamsi is the founder and CEO of Graphify Labs and the creator of Graphify, a knowledge-graph engine for coding assistants. His work connects research on retrieving grounded information with tools that map code and preserve context between agent sessions.

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177

Erik Torenberg

Erik Torenberg is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he invests and leads marketing and ecosystem work. He previously founded Turpentine and helped build On Deck, Village Global and Product Hunt.

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178

Siqi Chen

Siqi Chen is a software founder known for Runway, a financial planning platform, and public tools for coding agents. His projects address task completion, model delegation and clearer writing. He also publishes results from internal evaluations of AI models for financial workflows.

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179

Georgi Gerganov

Georgi Gerganov created ggml, llama.cpp and whisper.cpp, open-source tools for running AI models efficiently on ordinary hardware. He and the GGML team joined Hugging Face in February 2026 while continuing to maintain the projects.

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180

Mert Köseoğlu

Mert Köseoğlu is a software engineer and the founder of Context Mode. His projects work on the infrastructure around AI agents: controlling context size, running issue-based coding workflows and connecting assistants to browser sessions. His earlier engineering roles include Qooper, Planhat and consulting work.

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181

George Nachman

George Nachman maintains iTerm2, the free, open-source terminal emulator for macOS that grew from his fork of iTerm in 2010. He also publishes shell-integration tools and gptline, a Python interface for conversations with language models in the terminal.

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182

Satya Nadella

Satya Nadella is chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft. He became CEO in February 2014 after leading its Cloud and Enterprise business, and his public talks describe the company’s approach to cloud platforms, AI products and organizational change.

Start with Satya Nadella: Stanford View From The Top

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183

Akshay Pachaar

Akshay Pachaar is an AI educator and cofounder of Daily Dose of Data Science. He publishes technical explanations and runnable examples about language models, retrieval and agent systems, drawing on earlier work at Lightning AI, TomTom and HERE Technologies.

Start with Agent Memory Architecture Guide

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184

Julius Brussee

Julius Brussee builds tools around AI agents and studies Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Leiden University. His Caveman project began with compressed agent language and now includes context handling and workload optimization. He also created Revu, a macOS study application.

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185

Addy Osmani

Addy Osmani is a member of technical staff at Anthropic working on Claude Code. He previously spent more than fourteen years at Google leading developer experience across web tooling and AI, and writes books and technical guides about software quality and engineering practice.

Start with Learning JavaScript Design Patterns

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186

Georgios Konstantopoulos

Georgios Konstantopoulos is a general partner and chief technology officer at Paradigm and CTO at Tempo. He leads open-source engineering around Ethereum infrastructure, including Reth, Foundry and Alloy, which cover node software, smart-contract development and Rust application tooling.

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187

Leon Lin

Leon Lin, known on GitHub as Leonxlnx, creates tools that guide AI coding agents through interface design and task completion. Taste Skill supplies design direction and browser checks; unlazy asks an agent to define acceptance criteria and verify its work before stopping.

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188

Ryan Carson

Ryan Carson is a software founder whose work spans developer education, conferences and AI-assisted development. He founded Treehouse and Carsonified and currently builds Untangle for family-law firms. His open-source projects turn specifications, task lists and product reports into workflows for coding agents.

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189

Jingyao Gong

Jingyao Gong creates the MiniMind family of small-model training projects. MiniMind exposes a language-model training pipeline in PyTorch, while MiniMind-V adds vision and MiniMind-O explores text, image and speech interaction. The projects emphasize learning by inspecting and running the implementation.

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190

Manthan Gupta

Manthan Gupta is an AI research engineer who writes about inference, agents and distributed systems. He created Water, a workflow harness around agent tasks, and Auto-Inference-Optimiser, an experiment loop for studying language-model inference on Apple Silicon.

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191

Harry Stebbings

Harry Stebbings founded 20VC, combining a venture-capital interview program with an investment firm. His interviews ask founders and investors to explain company-building decisions, markets and financing.

Start with Satya Nadella on Open vs Closed Models

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192

Giuliano Bellini

Giuliano Bellini is the creator and maintainer of Sniffnet, a Rust desktop application for understanding network traffic. He also publishes lower-level libraries that connect network ports and process icons to the programs using them.

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193

Dominik Kundel

Dominik Kundel works on developer experience and SDKs at OpenAI. He previously led product and design for Twilio’s Emerging Tech and Innovation organization, and explains developer tools through talks, code and practical examples.

Start with Codex Plugin for Claude Code

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194

Steph Ango

Steph Ango, known online as kepano, is the CEO of Obsidian and a designer, writer and toolmaker. He previously co-founded Lumi and Inkodye and publishes open-source tools for working with durable text and web content.

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195

Jakub Krehel

Jakub Krehel is a founding design engineer at Interfere. He creates tools and writing about interface details, including the OKLCH color guide and the Interfaces magazine, and packages design-engineering methods as skills for coding agents.

Start with OKLCH Color Picker, Generator and Converter

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196

Vali Neagu

Vali Neagu publishes open-source software as fspecii, including music-generation interfaces and OpenFelix, a voice-first Mac agent. He also runs web studios and experiments with local inference and Apple Silicon, connecting model capabilities to applications people can operate.

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197

Alex L. Zhang

Alex L. Zhang is a PhD student at MIT CSAIL researching how language models use tools, context and computation. His work includes Recursive Language Models and KernelBench, a benchmark that checks whether model-generated GPU kernels are both correct and fast.

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198

Aiden Bai

Aiden Bai is the founder and CEO of Million and creates tools for React performance and AI-assisted frontend development. His projects include Million.js, React Scan and React Grab, which address rendering overhead, finding slow components and connecting a visible interface to its source code.

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199

Lex Fridman

Lex Fridman hosts long-form conversations about science, technology and other fields. His research work concerns human interaction with AI, including driver behavior, automation and learning systems.

Start with Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games

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Harry

Harry publishes full-stack and AI-automation software through the harry0703 GitHub account. His projects include AudioNotes, which turns recorded material into transcripts and notes, and MoneyPrinterTurbo, which assembles short videos from a topic or keywords.

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