VIBERS

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

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Naveen Rao

Naveen Rao is CEO and cofounder of Unconventional AI, which is exploring computing architectures that use physical dynamics to perform AI computation. His earlier companies, Nervana Systems and MosaicML, were acquired by Intel and Databricks.

Start with Neural co-evolution

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Adrian Sanborn

Adrian Sanborn is cofounder and CEO of Endura Therapeutics. He combines computation and experimental biology, with research on genome organization and gene regulation, experience building RNA datasets at Atomic AI and current work on RNA-targeting drug discovery.

Start with Foundries vs Navigators: Lowering the Cost of Science

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Hardik Pandya

Hardik Pandya is SVP of design, research and taste at Pocket FM. He writes about product design and leadership and builds small open-source experiments, including Stop Slop, a writing skill, and Solari, a browser recreation of a mechanical split-flap display.

Start with Stop Slop

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breaking-brake

breaking-brake is a web and developer-tools engineer who maintains CC Workflow Studio, a visual editor and command-line toolkit for agent workflows. The project turns a shared workflow definition into instructions and execution paths for several coding assistants.

Start with CC Workflow Studio

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Peter Gostev

Peter Gostev works on AI capability at Arena and created BullshitBench, a benchmark of whether language models challenge nonsensical premises. His project examines a specific failure mode: giving a polished answer when the question itself should be rejected.

Start with BullshitBench

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Richard Atkinson

Richard Atkinson builds automation and software tools, including a Telegram interface to Claude Code. His work brings coding-agent sessions into a familiar messaging interface while retaining a local project’s context and tools.

Start with Claude Code Telegram

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Andrew M. Dai

Andrew M. Dai is co-founder and CEO of Elorian AI. Previously a director at Google DeepMind, he worked on language-model research and Gemini’s training data. At Elorian, his focus is models that reason about visual and spatial relationships.

Start with Visual reasoning: Andrew Dai

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Kevin Gu

Kevin Gu is a co-founder of ThirdLayer, which builds context infrastructure and continual-learning tools for enterprise AI. His open-source AutoAgent project explores how an agent can improve another agent’s harness through repeated evaluation.

Start with AutoAgent

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Daniel García

Daniel García maintains Vaultwarden, a community server implementation compatible with Bitwarden clients. Written in Rust, the project gives self-hosters an alternative way to operate a password-management backend.

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Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza

Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza, known as GPS, is a senior developer experience advocate at GitHub and a core maintainer of Learn to Cloud. She creates technical explanations and practical learning paths for cloud infrastructure and AI-assisted software development.

Start with Learn to Cloud

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Rudrank Riyam

Rudrank Riyam is a writer and developer for Apple platforms who works at Rork. He created App Store Connect CLI, an open-source command-line interface for managing the steps between building an app and distributing it through Apple’s services.

Start with App Store Connect CLI

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Jian Liao

Jian Liao is founder of Singular Intelligence and develops TinyAGI, an open-source orchestrator for teams of AI agents. His work connects agent runtimes with the coordination needed for ongoing organizational tasks.

Start with TinyAGI

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Evis Drenova

Evis Drenova is a software engineer and former Neosync cofounder. He writes implementation-focused explanations of machine learning and privacy engineering, including small Rust projects that expose the machinery hidden behind training libraries.

Start with Building an Autograd system in Rust

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Giorgio Garofalo

Giorgio Garofalo is a software engineer and the creator of Quarkdown, a Markdown-based typesetting system. His current portfolio describes full-stack work on Falconer’s visual knowledge editor.

Start with Quarkdown

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Rune Kvist

Rune Kvist is a cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC), which combines AI-agent audits, a technical standard and insurance. The company identifies him as Anthropic’s first product hire.

Start with AIUC-1 standard

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Maximilian-David Rumpf

Maximilian-David Rumpf, also known as Max Rumpf, is cofounder and CEO of SID.ai, a research company training models to retrieve information. He and Sam Dauncey identify themselves as co-creators of SID-1, an iterative search model.

Start with Training SID-1 to beat GPT-5 at search with 1k+ QPS RL

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ShinMegamiBoson

ShinMegamiBoson maintains OpenPlanter, an open-source tool that helps researchers investigate relationships across documents and datasets.

Start with OpenPlanter

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Richard Socher

Richard Socher is an AI researcher and entrepreneur, CEO and cofounder of Recursive and founder and CEO of You.com. His research includes GloVe word vectors and the Stanford Sentiment Treebank, two approaches to representing meaning in language.

Start with Recursive Deep Models for Semantic Compositionality Over a Sentiment Treebank

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Pierson Marks

Pierson Marks is a software engineer, designer and Jellypod cofounder and CEO. He created SpeechSDK, a TypeScript library that gives applications a common interface to multiple text-to-speech providers, and writes about operating agent-assisted development workflows.

Start with Building a software factory entirely on a Claude subscription

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vivek

vivek is the public name used by the X account @itsreallyvivek, which publishes writing about research practice. Its essay “how to be good at research” proposes concrete ways to choose problems and learn from experiments.

Start with How to Be Good at Research

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Amin Mahmoudi

Amin Mahmoudi, known online as MasterKinG32, is a full-stack developer. His open-source work includes MasterDnsVPN, which transports TCP connections through DNS traffic, and his streaming work includes MasterStream.

Start with MasterDnsVPN

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Maximillian Piras

Maximillian Piras is Yutori’s founding designer. His product design and writing examine how people can understand, direct and evaluate AI systems, including agents that navigate websites and complete tasks.

Start with Using Friction As A Feature In Machine Learning Algorithms

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Nav Toor

Nav Toor publishes practical AI guides and commentary through the X account heynavtoor. His authored tutorials translate research-inspired ideas into prompt sequences for general readers. His profile also offers sponsorships, and recent posts disclose paid partnerships.

Start with The Stanford STORM Method

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Daniel Nakov

Daniel Nakov is chief technology officer at INVISR, where he leads technical architecture and AI implementation. He also publishes Litter, a native mobile client for Codex and Local Studio.

Start with Litter

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David Granzin

David Granzin is a fullstack engineer who publishes software as Makisuo. His projects include Maple, an open-source platform for investigating application traces, logs and metrics.

Start with Maple

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Jens Tonberg Larsson

Jens Tonberg Larsson works at Gilion and publishes open-source tools as thejens. His projects explore practical problems around AI agents, including reliable references to identifiers and recording coding sessions on a Garmin watch.

Start with id-token-nicer

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Noam Brown

Noam Brown is an OpenAI research scientist working on reasoning, reinforcement learning, self-play and multi-agent AI. His research spans reasoning models and systems that play poker and negotiate in Diplomacy.

Start with Learning to reason with LLMs

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Tsvetan Gerginov

Tsvetan Gerginov is a software developer and AI automation specialist who publishes tools as TsvetanG2. His projects include an independent management interface for Cognigy.AI and a PDF-to-spreadsheet converter.

Start with PDF-To-Excel-Converter

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Dietrich Gebert

Dietrich Gebert publishes Ponytail, a set of instructions and review tools for AI coding agents that emphasizes reusing existing code and implementing only what a task needs.

Start with Ponytail

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Tomáš Čupr

Tomáš Čupr founded Rohlik Group, a European online grocery business, and serves as its group chief executive. He also publishes Sandstorm, an open-source runtime for operating sandboxed AI agents through Slack and developer interfaces.

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tt-a1i

tt-a1i is the public developer pseudonym behind Archify, a skill that helps coding agents turn systems and ideas into interactive diagrams. The developer also maintains Hive, a browser interface for coordinating coding-agent command-line processes.

Start with Archify

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Palash Debnath

Palash Debnath is a software engineer and founder of YUPCHA who builds open-source applications and developer tools. His flagship project, VoiceStudio, brings voice generation, transcription and related audio workflows onto a user’s own devices.

Start with VoiceStudio

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Diego Rodrigues de Sa e Souza

Diego Rodrigues de Sa e Souza creates open-source AI infrastructure and developer tools. He is the creator of OmniRoute, a gateway that connects AI clients to multiple model providers through a shared interface.

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Calesthio

Calesthio builds open-source AI-assisted and agent tools, including OpenMontage and Crucix. OpenMontage organizes video production as a workflow that an AI agent can help plan, generate and assemble.

Start with OpenMontage

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Neo Kim

Neo Kim writes The System Design Newsletter, which explains software architecture and AI engineering through concepts and case studies. His educational work also includes a system-design interview cheat sheet and a collection of learning resources.

Start with System Design Interview Cheat Sheet

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Nathan Baschez

Nathan Baschez is a founder, designer and engineer building AI tools. His work includes Lex, an AI writing application, and Roughdraft, an interface for reviewing and revising Markdown with coding agents.

Start with Roughdraft

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Jonata Santos

Jonata Santos is a software entrepreneur who publicly describes building a portfolio of products at Olympus. He shares practical agent-development workflows, including how he preserves research and evaluates an agent’s work before accepting it.

Start with Agent development workflow

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Luong Nguyen

Luong Nguyen is a software engineer working on AI and cybersecurity at Montimage. He also builds open-source tools for coding agents, including Claude How To, a visual guide to combining Claude Code features into practical workflows.

Start with Claude How To

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Nick Winder

Nick Winder is a software and AI developer at Nutrient. His work includes developer tooling, AI products and SynthTeam, a plugin for testing ideas against simulated perspectives distilled from workplace messages.

Start with SynthTeam

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Seth Hobson

Seth Hobson is a software engineer working in applied AI and data systems, and founder of Major 7 Apps. He builds developer tools including a marketplace of reusable agents, skills and commands for coding assistants.

Start with Agentic Plugin Marketplace (wshobson/agents)

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Pouya Saadeghi

Pouya Saadeghi is a product designer and developer who created daisyUI, an open-source CSS component library for Tailwind CSS. His work focuses on reusable interface components, design systems and front-end development.

Start with daisyUI

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Vasudev Siddh

Vasudev Siddh is an AI engineer working on real-time voice systems and language-model applications. He created JustHireMe, a local desktop workbench for job discovery, profile matching and preparing applications.

Start with JustHireMe

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Philipp Emanuel Weidmann

Philipp Emanuel Weidmann is a mathematician and software engineer doing independent research on language-model alignment and interpretability. He created Heretic, software that automatically adjusts refusal behavior in supported language models.

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YHH

YHH publishes open-source developer tools as esengine, including Reasonix, an AI coding assistant. Their writing examines how an agent’s conversation and prompt structure affect repeated model requests.

Start with A byte-stable prompt prefix

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CJ Pais

CJ Pais creates open-source software, including Handy, an offline speech-to-text application. His work aims to make everyday technology easier to use while keeping the user’s data and tools under their control.

Start with Handy

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Virgilio Junior

Virgilio Junior is a site reliability engineer who publishes open-source tools as virgiliojr94. His book-to-skill project turns long documents into reusable reference material for coding agents.

Start with book-to-skill

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decolua

decolua publishes open-source developer tools, including the 9Router model gateway and the 9Remote remote-workstation interface. Their work connects coding tools with model services and access to a development computer.

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Ryan Stephen

Ryan Stephen is a product designer and prototyper working at Runway. He builds experiments in digital and spatial interaction, including lil agents, animated desktop characters that open sessions with AI coding tools.

Start with lil agents

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Tirth Kanani

Tirth Kanani is an AI and automation engineer at Telana who researches how to give language models the context a task needs. He created code-review-graph, a local structural index for coding assistants.

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Alireza Rezvani

Alireza Rezvani is a CTO, AI engineer and adviser based in Berlin. He leads engineering in AI medical technology and publishes reusable skills and workflow tools for coding agents.

Start with Claude Code Skills & Plugins

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