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Practitioners who actually run AI as their operating system. Real workflows, documented publicly, ready to steal.

Practitioners who built specific workflows, shipped actual products, and shared exactly how they did it. No gatekeeping — read their blogs, watch their videos, steal their prompts.

Start with whoever matches your work style. Copy what works. Ignore what doesn’t.

Adam Azzam's ControlFlow Framework OP / 01
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Adam Azzam's ControlFlow Framework

How Prefect's VP of Product built ControlFlow and Marvin, bringing workflow orchestration and failure handling to AI agents with native observability

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Addy Osmani's Spec-Driven AI Coding OP / 02
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Addy Osmani's Spec-Driven AI Coding

How Google's Head of Chrome Developer Experience applies structured prompts and specs to get reliable results from coding agents

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Ado Kukic's Advent of Claude OP / 03
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Ado Kukic's Advent of Claude

How Anthropic's Developer Relations engineer documented 31 days of Claude Code tips, from basics to advanced agent patterns

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Affaan Mustafa's Everything Claude Code OP / 04
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Affaan Mustafa's Everything Claude Code

An Anthropic hackathon winner shares 10 months of battle-tested Claude Code configs: agents, skills, hooks, and context management

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Alex Albert's Claude Mastery OP / 05
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Alex Albert's Claude Mastery

Anthropic's Claude Relations lead shares the prompting patterns that make Claude most effective

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Alex MacCaw on AI-Powered Note-Taking OP / 06
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Alex MacCaw on AI-Powered Note-Taking

Creator of Reflect Notes builds AI into personal knowledge tools. His vibe coding approach and WorkGPT framework show how senior engineers work with AI.

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Alex Newman's Persistent Memory for Claude Code OP / 07
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Alex Newman's Persistent Memory for Claude Code

How a 20-year web veteran built the most-starred Claude Code plugin by treating AI memory as a compression problem

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Alex Obenauer's Itemized Personal Computing OP / 08
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Alex Obenauer's Itemized Personal Computing

Independent researcher building alternative OS paradigms where items replace apps and time organizes everything

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Alexander Opalic's Claude Code Deep Dives OP / 09
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Alexander Opalic's Claude Code Deep Dives

How a German developer became the go-to source for understanding Claude Code's full stack — MCP, skills, subagents, hooks, and plugins

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Ali Abdaal turns content into a capture system OP / 10
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Ali Abdaal turns content into a capture system

Ali Abdaal's AI content workflow is useful as an operating pattern: capture raw thought fast, process it with AI, then keep human taste in the final edit.

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Amelia Wattenberger on AI UX Beyond Chatbots OP / 11
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Amelia Wattenberger on AI UX Beyond Chatbots

Principal Research Engineer at GitHub Next explores why chatbots fail as AI interfaces and how to build tools that amplify human thinking.

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Amjad Masad's Replit Vision OP / 12
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Amjad Masad's Replit Vision

How the Replit founder is democratizing software creation with AI-powered coding environments

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Andreas Stuhlmuller's Factored Cognition OP / 13
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Andreas Stuhlmuller's Factored Cognition

How the Elicit founder breaks complex AI reasoning into verifiable subtasks, enabling weaker models to reliably catch errors from stronger ones

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Andrej Karpathy's AI-First Development OP / 14
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Andrej Karpathy's AI-First Development

How Andrej Karpathy builds software in the AI era: vibe coding for prototypes, three-layer workflow for production.

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Andy Matuschak's Memory Systems OP / 15
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Andy Matuschak's Memory Systems

The researcher who left Apple to build tools that expand what humans can think. His approach: memory augmentation, programmable attention, and AI-assisted learning.

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Anton Osika: From Particle Physics to $6B AI Startup OP / 16
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Anton Osika: From Particle Physics to $6B AI Startup

How the gpt-engineer creator built Lovable into Europe's fastest-growing AI coding company with 8M users and $200M ARR.

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Ariya Hidayat's Anti-Framework Approach to LLM Development OP / 17
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Ariya Hidayat's Anti-Framework Approach to LLM Development

The creator of PhantomJS and Esprima argues against LLM frameworks, showing how to build AI tools with simple API calls instead

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Armin Ronacher's Agentic Coding Practice OP / 18
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Armin Ronacher's Agentic Coding Practice

How the Flask creator approaches AI-assisted development with Claude Code — token-efficient, low-intervention, and surprisingly Vim-friendly

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Artur Piszek's WordPress Personal OS OP / 19
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Artur Piszek's WordPress Personal OS

How a software engineer turned WordPress into a self-hosted personal operating system with AI-ready architecture

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Bas Nijholt's Agentic Coding Journey OP / 20
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Bas Nijholt's Agentic Coding Journey

How a quantum physicist at IonQ went from AI skeptic to shipping packages faster than ever with Claude Code

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Ben Firshman's Mission to Make AI Usable OP / 21
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Ben Firshman's Mission to Make AI Usable

The Docker Compose creator built Replicate to let devs use ML models like npm packages. Good abstractions beat specialized knowledge.

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Ben Tossell's Non-Technical AI Builder Playbook OP / 22
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Ben Tossell's Non-Technical AI Builder Playbook

How the Ben's Bites founder ships production code without writing it—CLI agents, agents.md files, and 3 billion tokens later.

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Ben Tossell's Non-Technical AI Coding OP / 23
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Ben Tossell's Non-Technical AI Coding

Ben Tossell spent 3 billion tokens in four months coding with agents. His workflow: CLIs over MCPs, agents.md files, and VPS for mobile coding.

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Benjamin Clavié on Making ColBERT Actually Usable OP / 24
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Benjamin Clavié on Making ColBERT Actually Usable

How the creator of RAGatouille bridges information retrieval research and practical RAG systems through open-source tools.

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Beyang Liu's Agentic Coding Setup OP / 25
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Beyang Liu's Agentic Coding Setup

How the Sourcegraph co-founder uses AI agents to generate 90% of his code while keeping the editor for diff review and diagnostics.

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Beyang Liu's Frontier Coding Agent OP / 26
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Beyang Liu's Frontier Coding Agent

How Sourcegraph's co-founder built Amp—an opinionated agent that ships to find the future.

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Boris Cherny: Claude Code, Git Worktrees, and Parallel Agents OP / 27
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Boris Cherny: Claude Code, Git Worktrees, and Parallel Agents

How Boris Cherny runs 5+ Claude Code sessions simultaneously: one git worktree per task, less context bleed, automated PR workflows, and a smaller version you can start with two agents.

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Brandon Redmond's Claude SDK for Rust OP / 28
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Brandon Redmond's Claude SDK for Rust

A former math teacher built the first community Rust SDK for Claude Code, making type-safe AI agents accessible to systems programmers.

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Brian Casel's Spec-Driven Development OP / 29
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Brian Casel's Spec-Driven Development

How a serial bootstrapper built Agent OS and Design OS to bring structure to AI-assisted coding workflows

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Brian Christner's Human OS OP / 30
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Brian Christner's Human OS

How a Docker Captain built a unified personal operating system using AI and MCP servers

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Cassie Kozyrkov on Decision Intelligence OP / 31
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Cassie Kozyrkov on Decision Intelligence

How Google's first Chief Decision Scientist teaches humans to make better choices with AI and data.

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Charles Packer treats agent memory like an operating system

Charles Packer's MemGPT and Letta work frames agent memory as systems design: context paging, external state, memory management, and persistent agents.

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Charlie Holtz Builds AI Tools That Spark Joy OP / 33
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Charlie Holtz Builds AI Tools That Spark Joy

Creator of Melty, Narrator, and Conductor shows how rapid prototyping turns AI experiments into viral projects.

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Charlie Holtz on Rapid AI Prototyping OP / 34
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Charlie Holtz on Rapid AI Prototyping

How Charlie Holtz builds viral AI demos quickly by combining vision models, text-to-speech, and fast iteration cycles.

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Chip Huyen's AI Systems Philosophy OP / 35
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Chip Huyen's AI Systems Philosophy

How the author of AI Engineering and Designing ML Systems thinks about building production AI, from real-time ML to personal tooling

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Chris Pedregal's Invisible AI Notepad OP / 36
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Chris Pedregal's Invisible AI Notepad

The Socratic founder built Granola, an AI meeting notepad with rare 70% weekly retention. His insight: UX execution beats model capabilities.

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Chris Wiles' Claude Code Showcase Template OP / 37
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Chris Wiles' Claude Code Showcase Template

A full-stack engineer's comprehensive CLAUDE.md template with skills, agents, hooks, and GitHub Actions

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Cole Medin: Context Engineering, PRPs, and Archon OP / 38
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Cole Medin: Context Engineering, PRPs, and Archon

Cole Medin's context-engineering workflow for AI coding: write Product Requirements Prompts, front-load examples and validation criteria, then wire the pattern into Archon.

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Cory Zue on AI-Augmented Solo Development OP / 39
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Cory Zue on AI-Augmented Solo Development

Former CTO turned solopreneur shares practical insights on using Claude Code, MCP servers, and AI tools while building Django products.

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Cory Zue's Practical AI Coding Workflows OP / 40
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Cory Zue's Practical AI Coding Workflows

How a solopreneur uses MCP, Claude Code, and RAG to build products while questioning if AI will replace his business.

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Craig Motlin's Autonomous Development Loop OP / 41
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Craig Motlin's Autonomous Development Loop

How a Two Sigma VP built a self-running Claude Code system with todo-driven automation and parallel worktrees

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Daksh Gupta's Independent Code Review Thesis OP / 42
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Daksh Gupta's Independent Code Review Thesis

Why the Greptile founder believes AI that writes code should never be the same AI that reviews it

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Dan Shipper's AI Journaling and Personal Development System OP / 43
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Dan Shipper's AI Journaling and Personal Development System

How the Every CEO uses AI as a therapist, coach, and journaling partner—turning ChatGPT into a personalized second brain that knows his goals, relationships, and growth areas.

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Daniel Miessler treats AI as personal infrastructure OP / 44
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Daniel Miessler treats AI as personal infrastructure

Daniel Miessler's Fabric and Personal AI Infrastructure work shows how AI becomes useful when prompts, context, CLI workflows, and memory are treated as system parts.

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Daniel Vassallo's Small Bets: How to Build a Portfolio of Profitable Products OP / 45
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Daniel Vassallo's Small Bets: How to Build a Portfolio of Profitable Products

Learn Daniel Vassallo's Small Bets philosophy: how he left a $500K Amazon job to make $1M+ with tiny products by embracing randomness and portfolio thinking.

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David Shapiro's ACE Framework OP / 46
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David Shapiro's ACE Framework

How an AI researcher designed a layered cognitive architecture for building autonomous personal AI systems

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David Soria Parra's Model Context Protocol OP / 47
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David Soria Parra's Model Context Protocol

How an ex-Facebook engineer frustrated with copy-paste workflows created MCP, now the standard for connecting AI to external tools.

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Debanjum Singh's Open Personal AI OP / 48
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Debanjum Singh's Open Personal AI

How the Khoj founder builds trustworthy AI assistants that search your documents locally

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Dylan Freedman's Local Semantic Search OP / 49
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Dylan Freedman's Local Semantic Search

How the NYT AI Projects Editor built Semantra, an open-source privacy-first tool for searching PDFs and documents by meaning instead of exact keywords

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Elie Steinbock's Inbox Zero OP / 50
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Elie Steinbock's Inbox Zero

How the Israeli founder built Inbox Zero, an open-source AI email assistant with plain-English rules that hit #1 on GitHub and won Best AI at FOSS Awards

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Elvis Saravia's Open-Source AI Education OP / 51
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Elvis Saravia's Open-Source AI Education

How the DAIR.AI founder built the most popular prompt engineering guide and democratizes AI knowledge for 40,000+ subscribers.

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Erik Bjäreholt on Quantified Self Tools OP / 52
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Erik Bjäreholt on Quantified Self Tools

How ActivityWatch creator builds open-source personal data infrastructure and terminal AI agents for self-knowledge through numbers.

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Ethan Mollick's Four Rules for AI in Knowledge Work OP / 53
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Ethan Mollick's Four Rules for AI in Knowledge Work

Research-backed framework from Wharton professor on when and how to use AI for knowledge work, including the Jagged Frontier concept and practical prompting techniques.

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Ettore Di Giacinto's LocalAI Platform OP / 54
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Ettore Di Giacinto's LocalAI Platform

How an Italian open-source veteran built a drop-in OpenAI replacement that runs on consumer hardware with no GPU required

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Eugene Yan's Personal AI Workflow OP / 55
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Eugene Yan's Personal AI Workflow

How an Amazon Principal Scientist builds personal AI tools for writing, reflecting, and staying informed

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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti treats docs as AI infrastructure OP / 56
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Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti treats docs as AI infrastructure

Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti shows how technical writers can turn docs into AI-ready context, tests, tools, and safer prompts.

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Flo Crivello's AI Agent Philosophy OP / 57
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Flo Crivello's AI Agent Philosophy

How the Lindy.ai founder thinks about building personal AI assistants that handle real work, plus his contrarian takes on solo founding and AGI risk.

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Geoffrey Litt's Malleable Software Vision OP / 58
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Geoffrey Litt's Malleable Software Vision

How a researcher at Ink & Switch and Notion is building toward software that users can reshape like clay

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George Hotz on Tinygrad and AI as Compiler OP / 59
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George Hotz on Tinygrad and AI as Compiler

George Hotz views AI coding tools as compilers, not coders. His tinygrad philosophy: every line must earn its keep. Build better tools, not hype.

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Georgi Gerganov made local models feel ordinary OP / 60
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Georgi Gerganov made local models feel ordinary

Georgi Gerganov's llama.cpp pattern made local LLMs practical: portable runtimes, GGUF model files, and AI infrastructure that stays close to the user.

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Gordon Brander on Building Protocols for Thought OP / 61
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Gordon Brander on Building Protocols for Thought

How the creator of Noosphere and Subconscious approaches tools for thought, living software, and AI-powered futures.

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Gordon Brander on Building Protocols for Thought OP / 62
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Gordon Brander on Building Protocols for Thought

How the Subconscious founder uses evolutionary thinking to design AI-augmented tools for thought and decentralized knowledge systems.

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Gordon Brander on Living Software OP / 63
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Gordon Brander on Living Software

How the creator of Noosphere and Deep Future thinks about building open-ended software ecosystems through evolution, ecology, and generative approaches.

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Gordon Brander on Living Software Ecosystems OP / 64
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Gordon Brander on Living Software Ecosystems

Former Mozilla and Google engineer builds scenario planning AI while exploring what makes software ecosystems open-ended and evolving.

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Gregor Zunic's Browser Use Framework OP / 65
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Gregor Zunic's Browser Use Framework

How the ETH Zurich founder built the open-source library that lets AI agents control web browsers like humans do

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Guillermo Rauch: Building v0 and the AI SDK OP / 66
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Guillermo Rauch: Building v0 and the AI SDK

How the Vercel CEO created v0, AI SDK, and is shaping AI-first web development with natural language to working apps.

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Guillermo Rauch's AI-First Development Philosophy OP / 67
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Guillermo Rauch's AI-First Development Philosophy

How the Vercel CEO built v0 and AI SDK to let developers build with natural language and ship faster.

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Hamel Husain's AI Evaluation Framework OP / 68
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Hamel Husain's AI Evaluation Framework

How the CodeSearchNet pioneer built a systematic approach to debugging AI products through structured evaluation

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Harper Reed's LLM Codegen Workflow OP / 69
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Harper Reed's LLM Codegen Workflow

How the former Obama CTO structures AI-assisted development into brainstorm, plan, and execute phases

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Harrison Chase's Context Engineering Framework OP / 70
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Harrison Chase's Context Engineering Framework

How the LangChain founder thinks about building reliable AI agents through systematic context management

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Hrishi Olickel's Approach to Building Practical AI Tools OP / 71
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Hrishi Olickel's Approach to Building Practical AI Tools

How the Southbridge AI founder builds open-source tools and writes actionable guides for working with LLMs in production.

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Ian Nuttall's Non-Technical AI Building OP / 72
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Ian Nuttall's Non-Technical AI Building

A serial entrepreneur with 100+ exits shares his battle-tested Claude Code agents, session tracking, and parallel workflow tools

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James Briggs on Building AI That Works OP / 73
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James Briggs on Building AI That Works

How the Aurelio AI founder approaches real-world AI systems with semantic routing, RAG pipelines, and a focus on control and predictability.

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Jason Liu's Structured Output Methodology OP / 74
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Jason Liu's Structured Output Methodology

How the Instructor creator built tools that force LLMs to return validated, type-safe data

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Jason McGhee's WebMCP: Turning Websites Into AI Tool Servers OP / 75
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Jason McGhee's WebMCP: Turning Websites Into AI Tool Servers

How a former Cursor co-founder built WebMCP to let any website expose tools to AI agents without sharing API keys, now being standardized by W3C.

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Jeffrey Emanuel's Agentic Coding Flywheel OP / 76
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Jeffrey Emanuel's Agentic Coding Flywheel

A former quant investor built 70+ open-source tools that let AI coding agents coordinate like a self-managing development team.

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Jeremy Longshore's Claude Code Plugins Hub OP / 77
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Jeremy Longshore's Claude Code Plugins Hub

How an operations manager turned AI consultant built a 549-skill marketplace that turns plugins into production workflows

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Jerry Liu's Files-First Agent Architecture OP / 78
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Jerry Liu's Files-First Agent Architecture

The LlamaIndex founder on why filesystems are becoming the universal interface for AI agents—and why RAG is evolving beyond vector search

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Jesse Vincent's Superpowers Skills Framework OP / 79
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Jesse Vincent's Superpowers Skills Framework

How the Keyboardio founder built an agentic skills methodology that turns Claude Code into a self-steering development system

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Jim Fan on Building Foundation Agents OP / 80
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Jim Fan on Building Foundation Agents

Jim Fan builds AI agents that learn continuously across virtual and physical worlds, pioneering code-as-action and skill libraries for lifelong learning.

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Jim Fan's Embodied Agents and Skill Libraries OP / 81
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Jim Fan's Embodied Agents and Skill Libraries

How Jim Fan builds LLM-powered agents that learn continuously through code generation and reusable skill libraries.

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Jinyoung Kim's AI4PKM System OP / 82
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Jinyoung Kim's AI4PKM System

How a Naver data scientist built a multi-agent system where AI maintains your personal knowledge base automatically

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João Moura's Multi-Agent Framework OP / 83
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João Moura's Multi-Agent Framework

How the CrewAI founder built a platform powering 1.4 billion agentic automations by orchestrating AI agents as collaborative crews

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John Lindquist's TypeScript Hooks for Claude Code OP / 84
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John Lindquist's TypeScript Hooks for Claude Code

How the egghead.io co-founder brings type safety to Claude Code automation after spending over 1 billion tokens on AI-assisted development

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Josh Pigford

Maybe Finance founder who open-sourced his failed startup, sparked community revival, and integrated AI into personal finance management

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Justine Tunney's Local-First AI OP / 86
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Justine Tunney's Local-First AI

The systems hacker behind llamafile wants you to run LLMs like Unix commands—portable, composable, and completely offline.

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Karina Nguyen on Writing as AI Development Practice OP / 87
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Karina Nguyen on Writing as AI Development Practice

How the OpenAI researcher uses daily writing logs and structured documentation to sharpen thinking and build better AI models.

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Karlicoss Builds a Programming Interface for Life OP / 88
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Karlicoss Builds a Programming Interface for Life

The developer behind HPI (Human Programming Interface), an open-source Python library that unifies 50+ personal data sources into a single API.

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Kaushik Gopal's Agentic Flow State OP / 89
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Kaushik Gopal's Agentic Flow State

How the Fragmented podcast host and Instacart principal engineer runs parallel AI agents for hours using structured plans and tmux

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Kent Beck's Augmented Coding Philosophy OP / 90
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Kent Beck's Augmented Coding Philosophy

How TDD pioneer Kent Beck approaches AI-assisted programming through constrained context and breathing cycles.

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Kent C. Dodds' AI-Powered Developer Educator Workflow OP / 91
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Kent C. Dodds' AI-Powered Developer Educator Workflow

How the creator of Testing Library and Epic React uses ChatGPT, Copilot, and Cursor to teach hundreds of thousands of developers

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Kevin Kwok on Loops, Atomic Concepts, and Company DNA OP / 92
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Kevin Kwok on Loops, Atomic Concepts, and Company DNA

How the former Greylock investor and Sutter Hill partner thinks about compounding advantages, data content loops, and the structural patterns that shape tech companies.

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Killian Lucas — Open Interpreter and the natural language OS

Killian Lucas built Open Interpreter to let you control your computer in plain English. the vision, the reality, and why natural language interfaces keep almost-working.

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Kye Gomez's Enterprise Multi-Agent Swarms Framework OP / 94
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Kye Gomez's Enterprise Multi-Agent Swarms Framework

How the Swarms AI founder is building infrastructure for the multi-trillion dollar agent economy—orchestrating autonomous agent swarms at enterprise scale.

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Lance Martin's Claude Diary OP / 95
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Lance Martin's Claude Diary

How a LangChain engineer built a self-learning memory system that lets Claude Code update its own instructions

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Linus Lee's Custom AI Tools OP / 96
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Linus Lee's Custom AI Tools

How a tools-for-thought researcher builds personal AI systems from scratch to expand what's possible to think

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Logan Kilpatrick's AI Developer Advocacy OP / 97
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Logan Kilpatrick's AI Developer Advocacy

How the Google DeepMind product lead builds with AI, invests in AI tools, and advocates for shipping fast over debating.

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Louis Beaumont

Founder of Mediar AI and creator of screenpipe — 24/7 local screen and audio capture for AI memory. Building the open-source Rewind alternative.

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Maggie Appleton turns notes into working terrain OP / 99
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Maggie Appleton turns notes into working terrain

Maggie Appleton shows how public notes become living terrain: mapped, linked, visual, and useful for AI-era design work.

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Magnus Muller's Event-Driven Agent Architecture OP / 100
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Magnus Muller's Event-Driven Agent Architecture

How the Browser Use co-founder built a CLAUDE.md-powered codebase and event bus system for AI browser automation

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Mario Zechner strips coding agents down to the wires OP / 101
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Mario Zechner strips coding agents down to the wires

Mario Zechner's pi-coding-agent pattern is minimal and inspectable: few tools, visible sessions, explicit context, and less hidden agent machinery.

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Matt Rickard's Approach to Structured LLM Output OP / 102
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Matt Rickard's Approach to Structured LLM Output

Former Google engineer who builds tools for constraining LLM output with regex and grammars. Daily blogger sharing practical AI wisdom.

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Matt Rickard's Systems Approach to AI Tools OP / 103
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Matt Rickard's Systems Approach to AI Tools

Former Google engineer applies distributed systems thinking to AI tools: structured output, browser inference, and personal productivity.

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Matt Shumer's Browser Agent Vision OP / 104
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Matt Shumer's Browser Agent Vision

How the HyperWrite CEO is building AI that operates your browser like self-driving mode for the web

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Matt Webb's Context Plumbing OP / 105
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Matt Webb's Context Plumbing

Poem/1 creator explains why building personal AI systems is about plumbing context from where it lives to where it's needed.

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Max Woolf's Selective AI Approach OP / 106
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Max Woolf's Selective AI Approach

The BuzzFeed data scientist builds AI tools while rarely using generative LLMs himself

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Mckay Wrigley's AI Coding Education OP / 107
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Mckay Wrigley's AI Coding Education

How Mckay Wrigley built the most popular open-source AI chat UI and now teaches 25k+ people to code with AI through Takeoff.

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Michael Truell's Vision for Automated Coding OP / 108
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Michael Truell's Vision for Automated Coding

Cursor co-founder Michael Truell builds AI-first code editors and runs autonomous agents that write millions of lines of code over weeks.

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Mitchell Hashimoto on Agentic Coding OP / 109
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Mitchell Hashimoto on Agentic Coding

HashiCorp co-founder shares his process for building software with AI agents, including practical prompting strategies and real shipping examples.

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Nat Eliason's AI Productivity Stack OP / 110
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Nat Eliason's AI Productivity Stack

How the Growth Machine founder evolved from Roam Research to AI-powered systems for goals, writing, and personal knowledge

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Nat Friedman's AI Experiments OP / 111
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Nat Friedman's AI Experiments

Former GitHub CEO who builds personal AI tools like natbot and openplayground, co-founded AI Grant and the Vesuvius Challenge to read ancient scrolls with ML

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Nick Dobos — megaprompts and CLAUDE.md craft

Nick Dobos treats CLAUDE.md files and system prompts as engineering artifacts, not afterthoughts. the megaprompt philosophy and why prompt craft still matters in the age of agents.

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Nir Gazit's Open LLM Observability OP / 113
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Nir Gazit's Open LLM Observability

How the Traceloop founder built OpenLLMetry to bring OpenTelemetry standards to LLM applications

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Omar Khattab turns prompting into programming OP / 114
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Omar Khattab turns prompting into programming

Omar Khattab's DSPy pattern replaces brittle prompt handwork with signatures, modules, optimizers, and evaluation loops that can be inspected and improved.

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Paul Gauthier's Terminal-First AI Coding OP / 115
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Paul Gauthier's Terminal-First AI Coding

How the Inktomi co-founder built Aider, the open-source terminal tool that treats AI as a pair programmer instead of an autonomous agent

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Peter Yang's AI Content System OP / 116
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Peter Yang's AI Content System

How a product lead interviews AI power users and builds systems for content creation at scale

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Pieter Levels' Solo Business Approach OP / 117
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Pieter Levels' Solo Business Approach

How Pieter Levels built $3M+/year in solo revenue with AI coding, simple tech, and high failure tolerance.

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Ray Svitla

Lisbon-based strategist writing self.md — how people build AI-powered personal operating systems.

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Rick Hightower's Universal Skill Installer OP / 119
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Rick Hightower's Universal Skill Installer

How a Fortune 100 AI architect built skilz, the package manager that installs agent skills across 14+ coding assistants

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Riley Goodside's Prompt Engineering Patterns OP / 120
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Riley Goodside's Prompt Engineering Patterns

How the world's first Staff Prompt Engineer approaches LLM interaction as an experimental science

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Russ Poldrack's Ten Rules for AI-Assisted Scientific Coding OP / 121
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Russ Poldrack's Ten Rules for AI-Assisted Scientific Coding

How a Stanford neuroscientist created a rigorous framework for using AI coding agents in research without sacrificing scientific integrity

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Ryan Florence

Remix co-creator and React Router author exploring AI-assisted React development and full-stack framework evolution

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Sahil Chaudhary

E2B co-founder who built sandboxed cloud environments for AI agents to execute code safely at scale

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Sahil Lavingia's AI-First Company OP / 124
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Sahil Lavingia's AI-First Company

How the Gumroad CEO runs a $10M ARR company with AI agents writing 41% of code commits, targeting 80%

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Sawyer Hood: Building AI's Weird Future in Public

ex-figma engineer who created draw-a-ui and explores every weird way to interact with llms — from sketched interfaces to browser agents

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Scott Wu

Cognition Labs CEO who built Devin, the first autonomous AI software engineer that scared developers and raised $2 billion

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Sebastian Raschka: Understanding LLMs from First Principles OP / 127
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Sebastian Raschka: Understanding LLMs from First Principles

LLM researcher and author who teaches AI through implementation. His 'Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)' book has 84k GitHub stars.

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Sergey Ris teaches beginners to ship with Claude Code OP / 128
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Sergey Ris teaches beginners to ship with Claude Code

Sergey Ris turns vibe coding into a teachable loop for non-programmers: intent, context, Claude Code, review, and small shipped products.

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shmlkv's AI Building Pipeline OP / 129
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shmlkv's AI Building Pipeline

How a fullstack engineer chains specialized models to build everything from DNA analysis tools to automated video generators

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Shreya Rajpal: Making AI Reliable with Guardrails

founder of guardrails ai who built the leading open-source framework for validating llm outputs and preventing hallucinations in production

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Shrivu Shankar

Shrivu Shankar — VP of AI Strategy at Abnormal AI, author of 'How I Use Every Claude Code Feature,' practical Claude Code philosophy.

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Siddharth Bharath

author of the comprehensive 'Cooking with Claude Code' guide that became the de facto manual for AI-assisted development

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Simon Eskildsen on Learning Infrastructure OP / 133
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Simon Eskildsen on Learning Infrastructure

How the turbopuffer CEO built personal systems for reading, retention, and knowledge management using Airtable, Anki, and custom tooling.

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Simon Willison's Workflow OP / 134
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Simon Willison's Workflow

How the Django co-creator uses CLI tools, SQLite logging, and rapid prototyping to build an AI-powered workflow

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Stan Girard's Open Source RAG Framework OP / 135
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Stan Girard's Open Source RAG Framework

How the Quivr creator went from weekend prototype to 38K GitHub stars and Y Combinator backing

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Steph Ango's File Over App Philosophy OP / 136
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Steph Ango's File Over App Philosophy

How the Obsidian CEO builds personal systems around plain text files, local-first tools, and deliberate friction with AI.

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Steve Korshakov builds the AI tools he wants to use OP / 137
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Steve Korshakov builds the AI tools he wants to use

Steve Korshakov's local AI pattern is builder agency: run models near your code, own the capture loop, and turn personal workflows into tools.

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Steve Krouse's Val Town Platform OP / 138
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Steve Krouse's Val Town Platform

How the Future of Coding creator built a social platform where AI can deploy JavaScript in 100 milliseconds

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Steve Ruiz

tldraw founder who turned a whiteboard app into Make Real, the viral AI experiment that converts sketches into functional websites

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Steve Yegge on Chat-Oriented Programming OP / 140
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Steve Yegge on Chat-Oriented Programming

How the veteran programmer and Sourcegraph engineer champions AI-first coding and coined CHOP as the new default for developers.

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Suchintan Singh builds browser agents that check their work OP / 141
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Suchintan Singh builds browser agents that check their work

Suchintan Singh's Skyvern shows how browser agents can see pages, plan actions, validate progress, and avoid brittle DOM scripts.

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Swyx's Learning in Public OP / 142
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Swyx's Learning in Public

Why documenting your learning publicly creates more career opportunities than private study.

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Takuya Matsuyama's AI-Powered Development Journaling OP / 143
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Takuya Matsuyama's AI-Powered Development Journaling

How the Inkdrop creator uses Claude Code and MCP to automate development journals without interrupting flow state

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Taranjeet Singh — Mem0 and the memory layer

Taranjeet Singh, co-founder of Mem0, building the memory infrastructure for AI — graph + vector hybrid memory, and why every AI app will need a memory layer.

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Teresa Torres's Claude Code Task System OP / 145
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Teresa Torres's Claude Code Task System

How the Continuous Discovery author built a personal operating system with Claude Code, Obsidian, and custom slash commands

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Theo Browne's Approach to Building AI Apps OP / 146
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Theo Browne's Approach to Building AI Apps

How the creator of create-t3-app built T3 Chat into one of the fastest AI interfaces with TypeScript-first principles.

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Thomas Landgraf's Deep Knowledge Method OP / 147
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Thomas Landgraf's Deep Knowledge Method

How a 40-year veteran developer uses research-driven knowledge documents to turn Claude Code hallucinations into production-ready implementations

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Thomas Ricouard's Agentic iOS Workflow OP / 148
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Thomas Ricouard's Agentic iOS Workflow

How the IceCubesApp creator abandoned Xcode editing to build iOS apps with Cursor, Claude Code, and XcodeBuildMCP - spending only 2% of his time in Xcode

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Thorsten Ball's Agentic Coding Vision OP / 149
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Thorsten Ball's Agentic Coding Vision

How the Amp lead at Sourcegraph reconciles skeptical friends and transformative personal experience with AI coding agents

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Tiago Forte's Second Brain + AI OP / 150
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Tiago Forte's Second Brain + AI

PARA and CODE methods with AI. What works, what doesn't, and where AI actually helps.

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Tom Johnson's AI-Assisted Technical Writing Workflow OP / 151
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Tom Johnson's AI-Assisted Technical Writing Workflow

How the technical writing veteran uses iterative prompting and task decomposition to double his documentation output at Google

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Toran Bruce Richards

Auto-GPT creator who launched the autonomous agent revolution and proved LLMs could recursively improve their own output

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Travis VN

curator of awesome-claude-skills, the definitive GitHub repository cataloging Claude Code customizations and workflows

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Ty Dunn's Context Engineering for AI Coding OP / 154
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Ty Dunn's Context Engineering for AI Coding

How the Continue.dev founder makes AI assistants productive through systematic context delivery and developer data collection

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Will McGugan's Toad Terminal AI OP / 155
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Will McGugan's Toad Terminal AI

The creator of Rich and Textual built a universal frontend for AI coding agents after watching big tech ship broken terminal UIs

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Yann LeCun

The deep learning pioneer behind convolutional networks, self-supervised learning, JEPA, and the world-model critique of LLM-only agents.

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Yohei Nakajima's Build-in-Public AI Agent System OP / 157
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Yohei Nakajima's Build-in-Public AI Agent System

How the BabyAGI creator and VC uses autonomous agents in his daily work—building experiments publicly to learn faster, meet founders, and contribute to the ecosystem.

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