Inspiration
Creators, engineers, and builders who shape how I think about AI, music, design, and building in public. Not influencers — practitioners who ship.
AI Builders
Engineers and architects pushing the frontier of AI systems
Andrej Karpathy
AI Educator & Researcher
Makes deep AI concepts accessible. His Zero to Hero series set the standard for AI education.
Simon Willison
LLM Toolmaker & Blogger
Ships tools (Datasette, llm CLI) and writes the most thorough LLM coverage on the internet. Build-in-public gold standard.
Swyx (Shawn Wang)
AI Engineer & Community Builder
Coined 'AI Engineer', runs Latent Space. Bridges research and production like nobody else.
Harrison Chase
CEO, LangChain
Built the most adopted LLM framework. Moved fast, learned in public, shaped how people build with LLMs.
Creator Economy
Creators who turned knowledge into scalable businesses
Ali Abdaal
Creator & Productivity Expert
Scaled from doctor to multi-million dollar creator business. Evidence-based productivity.
Tina Huang
Data Scientist & Creator
Tech career content that resonates. Built audience through authentic technical storytelling.
Dan Koe
One-Person Business Architect
Systemized the one-person business model. Clean design, deep thinking, no fluff.
Music & Audio
Producers and artists shaping the future of AI music
Udio Team
AI Music Platform
Pushing the quality ceiling for AI-generated music. Competition drives the whole space forward.
Suno Team
AI Music Platform
Made AI music creation accessible to everyone. v4 changed what's possible.
Rick Beato
Music Producer & Educator
Deep music theory made accessible. The standard for quality music education on YouTube.
Open Source
Builders who ship in public and move the ecosystem forward
Guillermo Rauch
CEO, Vercel
Built the deployment platform that powers modern web. v0 is the best example of AI meeting developer tools.
Theo Browne
Creator, t3.gg
Honest tech takes, ships fast, built a massive YouTube presence through pure technical depth.
Kent C. Dodds
Educator & OSS Author
Testing Library, Epic Web. Turned deep React expertise into scalable education.
Enterprise AI
Leaders scaling AI in production environments
Andrew Ng
AI Pioneer & Educator
Coursera ML course taught millions. Now building the AI enterprise playbook at Landing AI.
Chip Huyen
MLOps Author & Engineer
Wrote the book on ML systems. Bridges research and production with clarity.
Design & Craft
Designers and craftspeople setting the bar for quality
This list grows as I discover new builders worth learning from. It's not about follower counts — it's about craft, depth, and shipping real work.