Inspiration
Sources I draw on for staying current with agentic development and AI/LLMs.
Researchers and educators
- Sebastian Raschka. ML researcher, Python ML books author.
- Andrej Karpathy. AI researcher and educator. Founding member of OpenAI and Director of AI at Tesla.
- Pieter Abbeel. UC Berkeley professor. Robotics and RL.
- Lilian Weng. Former OpenAI VP Research. Technical posts.
- Yann LeCun. Meta Chief AI Scientist. AI architecture.
- Jeff Dean. Google DeepMind Chief Scientist. Infrastructure and scaling.
- Ethan Mollick. Wharton professor. AI productivity research, enterprise adoption.
- 3Blue1Brown. Animated visual explanations of the linear algebra, calculus, and backpropagation behind neural networks.
Production practitioners
- Simon Willison. LLM CLI/Datasette creator.
- Hamel Husain. ML at GitHub/Airbnb. LLM evaluation.
- Harrison Chase. LangChain CEO. Agent frameworks and orchestration.
- Eugene Yan. Amazon applied ML. Production systems and RecSys writing.
- Shawn "swyx" Wang. Coined "AI Engineer" term. Latent Space podcast, Smol.ai founder.
- Zack Kass. Former OpenAI GTM head. Enterprise AI strategy.
Long-form interviews
- Machine Learning Street Talk. Long-form interviews with ML researchers and practitioners.
- Latent Space Podcast. Deep technical AI engineering interviews.
- Dwarkesh Patel. Long-form interviews with AI/tech leaders.
- TWIML AI. This Week in ML. Industry practitioner interviews.
Academic programs
- MIT OpenCourseWare. Full university coursework: Linear Algebra, Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Deep Learning, and probability.
- Stanford Online. Full lecture recordings of Stanford's AI courses including Machine Learning, NLP with Deep Learning, and Convolutional Neural Networks.
- Stanford HAI. Stanford Human-Centered AI research talks.
- DeepLearning.ai Deep Learning Specialization courses.
- Harvard Data Science. Academic AI/ML lectures and seminars.
- AI.Engineer. Conference talks from AI engineering community.
- ACM. Academic computing society research.
Standards and communities
- agentskills.io. Portable agent skill specification across harnesses.
- Anthropic documentation. Official Claude API and product documentation.
- Anthropic Discord. Community chat for Anthropic developers.
- agentskills.io Discord. Community defining agent skill portability.