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. Invite-only community defining agent skill portability.