AI People
Humans who teach about AI and software development.
Here's a list of my favorite educators from the world of AI-powered software development. These people are gifted communicators: they have the ability to understand complex topics and explain them in ways that are both clear and engaging.
Page Bailey
Paige works on AI stuff at Google. She's very funny, very smart, and shared a lot of timely and useful content.
Andrej Karpathy
Andrej has worked at OpenAI a couple times, and used to be the head of AI at Tesla. He has that special combination of deep technical knowledge and the ability to describe things simply and understandably.
- Video: Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
- Video: How I use LLMs
- https://bsky.app/profile/karpathy.bsky.social
Simon Willison
Simon is an independent software engineer and journalist, and maybe the most prolific tech writer I follow. He's kinda famous for being a co-creator of the Django web framework for Python.
He experiments a lot with language models, pushing them to their limits, and building open-source tools for experimentation.
Simon maintains an old-fashioned blog. Remember those? You know, like a website with words and dates on it. No algorith. No feed. Just posts.
- https://simonwillison.net
- https://tools.simonwillison.net
- https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net
Daniel Shiffman
Daniel is an engaging lecturer. He's the creator of the Coding Train YouTube channel, which is a great resource for learning to code.
He wrote a book called The Nature of Code which is a great introduction to programming and the physical world.