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

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.