The Canon
the minds that shaped the models
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫
@gwern · 106.9K
Internet besserwisser; pedantic, mean reply guy. 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘶! (Follow requests ignored due to terrible UI.)
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Jürgen Schmidhuber
@SchmidhuberAI · 219.7K
OG of: P and T in ChatGPT, recursive self-improvement, neural distillation, GAN/World Model, deepest learning. Co-authored most-cited AI paper of 20th century
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Robin Hanson
@robinhanson · 126.7K
Let’s skip witty banter & talk deep Qs. Books: https://t.co/hpZgEm5DBI https://t.co/iFs9C3J2Ek Advisor @_futarchy @MetaDAOProject @butterygg
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j⧉nus
@repligate · 68.9K
↬🔀🔀🔀🔀🔀🔀🔀🔀🔀🔀🔀→∞ ↬🔁🔁🔁🔁🔁🔁🔁🔁🔁🔁🔁→∞ ↬🔄🔄🔄🔄🦋🔄🔄🔄🔄👁️🔄→∞ ↬🔂🔂🔂🦋🔂🔂🔂🔂🔂🔂🔂→∞ ↬🔀🔀🦋🔀🔀🔀🔀🔀🔀🔀🔀→∞
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
@allTheYud · 21.9K
High-volume account of @ESYudkowsky, the original AI alignment guy. If it's missing punctuation, it's humor. If you can't tell, it's probably also humor.
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Beff (e/acc)
@beffjezos · 284.8K
founder @ e/acc // thermo king @extropic // Kardashev scaling is all you need
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Pliny the Liberator 🐉󠅫󠄼󠄿󠅆󠄵󠄐󠅀󠄼󠄹󠄾󠅉󠅭
@elder_plinius · 241.3K
⊰•-•⦑ latent space steward ❦ prompt incanter 𓃹 hacker of matrices ⊞ breaker of markov chains ☣︎ ai danger researcher ⚔︎ bt6 ⚕︎ architect-healer ⦒•-•⊱
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Scott Alexander
@slatestarcodex · 168.3K
I have a place where I say complicated things about philosophy and science. That place is my blog. This is where I make terrible puns.
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deepfates
@deepfates · 64.9K
cofounder @grove_research
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Perry E. Metzger
@perrymetzger · 19.5K
Mad Scientist, Bon Vivant, and Raconteur.The Frontier Outside
leading the field from beyond the gates
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Omar Khattab
@lateinteraction · 38.4K
asst professor @MIT CSAIL @nlp_mit. https://t.co/VgyLxl0VZz, https://t.co/ZZaSzaRIOF (@DSPyOSS), GEPA, RLMs, Pedagogical RL
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davidad 🎇
@davidad · 23.3K
cognizing structures of information processing systems, in all their forms | applied category theory | the Wisdom Basin hypothesis | cancel heat death
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Jeremy Howard
@jeremyphoward · 329K
🇦🇺 Co-founder: @AnswerDotAI/@FastDotAI ; Prev: Professor@UQ; @kaggle founding president; founder @fastmail/@enlitic/… https://t.co/16UBFTX7mo
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will brown
@willcb · 51K
reward hacking @primeintellect
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Connor Leahy
@NPCollapse · 31.5K
US Director @ControlAI - Leave me anonymous feedback: https://t.co/OJWQWKNZwS - I don't know how to save the world, but dammit I'm gonna try
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Rob Miles
@robertskmiles · 65.8K
Explaining AI Alignment to anyone who'll stand still for long enough, on YouTube and Discord. Music, movies, microcode, and high-speed pizza delivery
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George Hotz 🌑
@realGeorgeHotz · 303.3K
President @comma_ai. Founder @__tinygrad__
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DHH
@dhh · 889.3K
Father of three, Creator of Ruby on Rails + Omarchy, Co-owner & CTO of 37signals, Shopify director, NYT best-selling author, and Le Mans 24h class-winner.
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Varun
@varun_mathur · 35.7K
Founder and CEO @HyperspaceAI
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alex zhang
@a1zhang · 38K
phd student @mit_csail @nlp_mit, previously undergrad @princeton 🫵🏻 go participate in the @GPU_MODE kernel competitions!
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@anthrupad · 16.9K
somewhere deep, something lurks
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Stella Biderman
@BlancheMinerva · 19K
Ensuring that tech companies don't have a monopoly on being able to do research on cutting edge AI @AiEleuther. She/her
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xlr8harder
@xlr8harder · 14.4K
ai enjoyer, human flourishing, cat ✝️
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doomslide
@doomslide · 13.8K
One must imagine Sisyphus as a member of a coalition of the Outside
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Charles Goddard
@chargoddard · 1.6K
Chief of Frontier Research @arcee_ai MergeKit author Github: https://t.co/Hkx6IaA0qx
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Teknium 🪽
@Teknium · 129.6K
Cofounder and Lead Engineer - Hermes Agent @NousResearch, prev @StabilityAI Github: https://t.co/LZwHTUFwPq HuggingFace: https://t.co/sN2FFU8PVE
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Larissa Schiavo
@lfschiavo · 5K
cofounder @grove_research previously @eleosai @OpenAI @mural @USC // married to @Miles_Brundage
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samsja
@samsja19 · 9K
leading research at @PrimeIntellect
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Erik Bernhardsson
@bernhardsson · 58.1K
Building everyone's favorite AI infrastructure platform @modal
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Jeff Huber
@jeffreyhuber · 12.9K
founder @trychroma
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vas
@vasuman · 100.8K
CEO @varickagents, implementing AI at enterprise. Prev AI @meta.The Sensemakers
independent eyes on the board
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Simon Willison
@simonw · 225.2K
Creator @datasetteproj, co-creator Django. PSF board. Hangs out with @natbat. He/Him. Mastodon: https://t.co/t0MrmnJW0K Bsky: https://t.co/OnWIyhX4CH
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Ben Thompson
@benthompson · 284.1K
Author/Founder of @stratechery. Host of @ditheringfm @sharptechpod. @notechben for sports. @monkbent on other networks. Home on the Internet.
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Will Manidis
@WillManidis · 141.3K
financier.
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Ethan Mollick
@emollick · 390.7K
Professor @Wharton studying AI. New book, Co-Existence, coming October 20. Preorder here: https://t.co/hsDYf1xU9K Substack: https://t.co/UIBhxu4bgq
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swyx
@swyx · 194K
achieve ambition with intentionality, intensity, integrity & insanity. affiliations: - @smol_ai - @dxtipshq - @cognition - @aidotengineer - @latentspacepod
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Joe Weisenthal
@TheStalwart · 449.3K
One half of Bloomberg's Odd Lots Podcast. One quarter of Light Sweet Crude.
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Dan Shipper
@danshipper · 140.5K
ceo @every | the only subscription you need to stay at the edge of AI
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John Scott-Railton
@jsrailton · 165.7K
Chasing digital badness. Sr. Researcher @citizenlab @UofT @munkschool. Founding.Fmr.Ed. @SecPlanner. Tweets mine. Other platforms @jsrailton too.
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jessicat
@jessi_cata · 7.8K
CS / Math / AI / Philosophy blogger. Aspiring cyborg. Sleeping Beauty thirder. "There is no pleasure more complex than that of thought" — Borges
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Alex Volkov
@altryne · 42.9K
🎙️ Host of @thursdai_pod (get your AI news with us!) ✨ AI Evangelist with @wandb & @coreweave 🪄🐝 Opinions my own
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Zvi Mowshowitz
@TheZvi · 43.7K
Blogger primarily on AI and AI x-risk but also other things at Don't Worry About the Vase (SS/WP/LW), founding Balsa Research to fix policy.
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Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)
@teortaxesTex · 76.5K
We're in a race. It's not USA vs China but humans and AGIs vs ape power centralization. @deepseek_ai stan #1, 2023–Deep Time «C’est la guerre.» ®1
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Matt Busigin
@mbusigin · 18.2K
Wrote first LLM application platform (Cognosis). Former CIO @Hover_Networks. Former CTO @tryusercue. 35 years of writing code. AGI @ https://t.co/Oflrx9hUKw
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Michael Thiessen
@MichaelThiessen · 21.3K
Coding agent harnesses and evals @GetJobber. Focusing on measuring and improving code quality.
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Mike Taylor
@hammer_mt · 10.8K
🧪 Head of Evals @Every 📕 O'Reilly author: Prompt Engineering & DSPy 🎓 400k students on AI Udemy course 🤖 AI engineer since 2020 📈 Built a 50 person agency
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Julia Galef
@juliagalef · 109.3K
Author of THE SCOUT MINDSET and host of the Rationally Speaking podcast
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Roko 🐉
@RokoMijic · 26.9K
Radical Centrist, Transhumanist, Rationalist. https://t.co/KdIi1Wf10h
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Kylie Robison
@kyliebytes · 52.2K
take it easy dude, but take it • writing @corememory • robison (rah-beh-son) not robinson • signal @ kylie.111
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Andrew Curran
@AndrewCurran_ · 98.6K
🏰 - I write about AI, mostly. Expect some strange sights.
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Tenobrus
@tenobrus · 37K
this endless blue sky is driving me insane
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Eli Lifland
@eli_lifland · 9.8K
AI forecasting and governance @AI_Futures_. Co-author of AI 2040: Plan A, AI 2027, and the AI Futures Model. Also @aidigest_, @SamotsvetyF. Prev @oughtincThe Basement Labs
small teams, outsized dent
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kache
@yacineMTB · 404.9K
RL, robots, embedded, simulators. prev eng @ x, stripe. 6'3 (height) tensorpunk, Father 2u2 subscribe to read my blog!
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vik
@vikhyatk · 29.4K
teaching computers how to see @moondreamai
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Jeffrey Emanuel
@doodlestein · 50.1K
Former Quant Investor | My Open Source Projects: https://t.co/9qbOCDlaqM | Try https://t.co/oCtjI2mBIl , my collection of agent coding tooling.
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xjdr
@_xjdr · 29.3K
building AI that wont embarrass me in front of my own standards
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Michael P. Frank 💻🔜♻️
@MikePFrank · 9.3K
Reversible computing guru, straight outta Stanford, Microsoft, SRI, MIT, IBM, NASA, UF, FSU, & SNL. Senior Scientist @VaireHQ. Here to save the Universe. e/acc
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fabian
@fabianstelzer · 44.3K
building the creative super agent @heyglif / https://t.co/GVc2KGouz6
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Minh Nhat Nguyen
@menhguin · 16K
programmable LLMs. prev. @hud_evals, owned @AIHubCentral (1 MM users,acq.) ex climate protester🦦AI researcher, hard scifi enjoyer and $SMH degen
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Jack Morris
@jxmnop · 53.7K
research @engramlab // language models, information theory, science of AI
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Cody Blakeney
@code_star · 7.7K
Leading research at @arcee_ai | Formerly Data Research Lead @DbrxMosaicAI | Visiting Researcher @meta | Ph.D | #TXSTFOOTBALL fan | https://t.co/4G6Jf3b0V4
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Danielle Fong 🔆
@DanielleFong · 63.9K
dyson sphere prospector DMs OPEN
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Shannon Sands
@max_paperclips · 14.7K
Software developer & cognitive architect https://t.co/JAoBrqMLXN.
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kalomaze
@kalomaze · 25K
ML researcher (@primeintellect), speculator • extremely silly jester
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Simo Ryu
@cloneofsimo · 17.9K
I like cats, math and codes cloneofsimo@gmail.com
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Ellie Huxtable
@ellie_huxtable · 8.4K
building @atuinsh, prev: @posthog, @coinbase, 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸
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Ivan Burazin
@ivanburazin · 18.9K
building @daytonaio
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orph
@orphcorp · 20.4K
human alignment // metacognition @mcognitivelabs // Eastern Roman ☧
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Petr Baudis
@xpasky · 4.4K
Built @RossumAi, AlphaGo baseline pachi, bits of git, elinks & other oss... "The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better."
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Florian Brand
@xeophon · 17.6K
evals @PrimeIntellect | open models @interconnectsai
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John David Pressman
@jd_pressman · 10.4K
LLM developer, AI agents, synthetic data, scalable alignment, forecasting, behavioral uploading. Transhumanist. All tweets public domain under CC0 1.0.The Backrooms
something else altogether
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Andy Ayrey
@AndyAyrey · 110.2K
performance artist, meme weaver, and enabler of @truth_terminal ∞⟨X∴↯⟩∞
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ᄂIMIПΛᄂbardo
@liminal_bardo · 9.8K
Merch @ https://t.co/gLjijEYbqL
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lumpenspace and 99+ others
@lumpenspace · 24.3K
AI risk advocate 🦾🏍️ | consciousness objector 👻🙅🏻♀️ | help peer | ∀🪱:🪱∈✨
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Andrew
@dremnik · 19.1K
artful hacker • fighting for a world of human agency.
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thebes
@voooooogel · 22.4K
ꙮ what is your life? for you are a mist that appears for a little time then vanishes ꙮ blog/art/fiction https://t.co/aykxqKiXfu ꙮ llm psych @acsresearchorg ꙮ 💞💍📝 @holotopian
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Rob Haisfield
@RobertHaisfield · 9.7K
cofounder of @websim_ai, imagining new internets with our users. GenAI, TfT, BeSci, HCI, UX. Ex-Tana, Edge & Node, Spark Wave
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mephisto
@karan4d · 26K
flower-seeking
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Sauers
@Sauers_ · 14.9K
gnome
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Mira
@_Mira___Mira_ · 11.5K
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nightwing
@yaboilyrical · 2.1K
me write code
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veryvanya
@veryvanya · 4.3K
entity nurturing @opus_genesis | 100p(bloom)
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0.005 Seconds (3/694)
@seconds_0 · 20.3K
human first systems are the only thing left checkout https://t.co/DSD2mZsWkR & https://t.co/G7SnfYPeZp!The Builders on Main
shipping on the timeline
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Taelin
@VictorTaelin · 83.7K
₍^. .^₎⟆
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Mario Zechner
@badlogicgames · 73.5K
Armin's handler at https://t.co/B05ybKGkzx. Old man yelling at Claudes. https://t.co/Q1wG57v1yc https://t.co/mnOoWUr0TO https://t.co/8i5vIRE0Wn
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Lewis 🇺🇸
@ctjlewis · 47.9K
Startup counterculture. LLMs. If you think I might be able to help you with something, ask.
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dex
@dexhorthy · 41.4K
building @humanlayer_dev, YC alum, @aitinkerers sf lead, prev @replicatedhq @SproutSocial @nasa ai that works pod @ https://t.co/69BhaNtWfd
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bone
@bonegpt · 59.4K
try the slopcannon at https://t.co/QJ1kQaDlRs GET IN THE FUCKING CANNON
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dax
@thdxr · 172.9K
building @opencode at @anomalyco not the ceo
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geoff
@GeoffreyHuntley · 86.6K
pondering the ponderoos about using AI in unhinged ways and verifying outcomes @antithesishq. i created the “ralph loop” and “loop engineering” i guess. 😂
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Aaron Francis
@aarondfrancis · 63.4K
Sincere poster. No cynicism. Dad to two sets of twins! - VP Marketing & Community @laravel - Creator https://t.co/QG0tWQcm92 - @MostlyTechPod
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Rob Pruzan
@RobKnight__ · 7.3K
Building Zenbu (YC P26) | https://t.co/JoQUQvyC7k, prev Next.js team, react scan co-author
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Jesse Genet
@jessegenet · 62K
Startup builder (prev @lumi) turned family builder, currently vibe coding on my breaks from homeschooling four tots
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Raymond Weitekamp
@raw_works · 2.9K
RLM | AIE @ https://t.co/terMAcKUx6 | Resident @primeintellect | Founder @polySpectra | Cohort 1 @activatefellows @berkeleylab | PhD @caltech | AB @princeton | #rwri
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Nathan Baschez
@nbaschez · 50.2K
Product design @NotionHQ. AI scout at @trueventures. Previously: co-founder @lexdotpage and @Every, first employee @Substack. Always: @SoniaBaschez
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Nick Dobos
@NickADobos · 54.7K
prompt engineer @browsercompany | I make apps. My code runs on 100mil+ phones | former iOSdev @Twitter | indie dev @mindGoblinStdio Download Hivemind⬇️
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Kyle Mistele 🏴☠️
@0xblacklight · 8K
Clanker Wrangler / CTO @humanlayer_dev My other computer is your computer
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sunil pai
@threepointone · 59.1K
🎈 Entscheidungsproblem
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Adam
@adamdotdev · 44.1K
@opencode at @anomalyco100?
Wild Card
complaints, nominations to @irl_danB 