People & Experts

A writer/observer mentioned for a post about how vibe coding is reshaping developer workflows. Relevant to AI PMs for workflow and interface trends.

Peter Yang is a useful signal source for AI PMs because he combines industry observation with hands-on experimentation using modern AI tooling.

The founder of Vercel, cited for arguing that the CLI is the core interface for coding agents. Relevant to AI PMs for platform strategy and agent UX.

Guillermo Rauch is shaping AI PM thinking around agent-native developer platforms, especially through Vercel and Next.js.

Developer and writer known for hands-on AI and tooling tutorials. Here he provides a Docker-based walkthrough for running OpenClaw locally.

Simon Willison is a key interpreter of real-world AI tooling, model behavior, and agent workflows for builders.

The author and host cited for reporting on AI agents replacing most SDR work. Relevant to AI PMs for go-to-market automation and sales workflow shifts.

Lenny Rachitsky is a key curator of practical AI signals for product, growth, and agentic workflow design.

AI engineer and educator known for sharing practical model and agent-building insights. Here he predicts that 2026 will be the year of Agent Harnesses.

Philipp Schmid is an AI engineer and educator known for turning model and agent advances into practical guidance for builders.

HubSpot CTO and entrepreneur associated with product and platform building. Here he is credited with building Agent.ai.

Dharmesh Shah is positioned here as a key voice on agentic product design, platform openness, and AI-enabled business software.

AI researcher and commentator frequently cited on autonomous driving and frontier model progress. In this newsletter, he is credited with showcasing a 100% autonomous Tesla FSD drive.

Andrej Karpathy is a high-signal commentator for AI PMs on frontier models, agents, developer tooling, and autonomous systems.

A Google AI product leader mentioned announcing a billing rollout for Gemini API and AI Studio. Relevant to AI PMs for platform updates and developer experience changes.

Logan Kilpatrick is a key Google AI product voice for Gemini, AI Studio, and developer platform updates.

Founder and AI developer advocate associated with agent tooling and workflows. Here he discusses defining agents with markdown and JSON files for streamlined development.

Harrison Chase is a key public voice shaping how teams build, evaluate, and operationalize AI agents.

An AI researcher mentioned for sharing transformer residual connection improvements. Relevant to AI PMs because model architecture advances affect capability and training stability.

Sebastian Raschka is a key interpreter of LLM architecture and implementation details for practitioner audiences.

A product/engineering leader referenced for breaking down AI engineering spend and talent strategy. Relevant to AI PMs for budgeting, hiring, and retention decisions.

Claire Vo is frequently referenced for practical insights on AI engineering leverage, PM headcount strategy, and AI-native team design.

Entrepreneur and creator who often demos AI tools for business growth. Here he demonstrates Alibaba’s Axio platform for ecommerce ideation and sourcing.

Greg Isenberg is repeatedly cited as a practical AI operator focused on turning tools into products, workflows, and revenue.

Product discovery and AI product workflow voice mentioned as releasing a new plugin. Relevant to AI PMs for tooling that supports product workflows.

Teresa Torres connects classic product discovery principles to emerging AI workflows, agentic systems, and human-in-the-loop design.

Creator/announcer of an open-source agentic coding toolkit. Relevant to PMs as a builder in the agentic developer-tools space.

Santiago is a notable builder/announcer in the open-source agentic developer-tools ecosystem.

Henry Shi is a technical staff member at Anthropic Labs and co-runner of the AI Product Management Certification. He is described as a former co-founder of Super.com.

Henry Shi is described as technical staff at Anthropic Labs and a co-runner of the AI Product Management Certification.

Rohan Varma is an AI product operator and instructor mentioned as a co-runner of the AI Product Management Certification. He is described as formerly the first PM at Cursor and now at Codex.

Rohan Varma is repeatedly described as an ex-cofounder and first-ever PM at Cursor, now at Codex.

Creator introducing GenAI PM, described as an AI agent that scans social conversations for PM insights. Relevant to AI PM media and workflow tools.

Udi Menkes is a prominent GenAI PM creator focused on AI-native workflows, agents, and reusable PM skills.

Andrew Ng is credited with the Turing-AGI Test in DeepLearning.AI’s New Year issue. He remains a major figure in AI education and practical product thinking.

Andrew Ng is a key AI educator and product thinker whose work often translates frontier AI into practical tools and workflows.

A commentator associated here with Spotify’s use of Claude Code. Relevant to PMs for illustrating AI-driven software delivery narratives.

Boris Cherny is repeatedly cited as a key public voice on Claude Code, AI code review, and developer-agent product design.

CEO and cofounder associated with Google DeepMind and AI research. Here he is referenced teasing a robotics collaboration involving Gemini Robotics.

Demis Hassabis is a central signaler of Google DeepMind’s roadmap across research, products, and AGI positioning.

Google leader and AI researcher cited for discussing personalized learning with AI models. Relevant to education product use cases and model applications.

Jeff Dean is a key Google AI leader whose updates often signal important shifts in model capabilities, infrastructure, and applied AI priorities.

A LinkedIn writer referenced for challenging hype-driven AI posting. Relevant to AI PMs for practical experimentation and operator-level sharing.

Tal Raviv is cited as a grounded AI operator who documents real PM and agent workflows instead of hype-driven AI posting.

CEO of Perplexity, mentioned releasing Kimi K2.5 on Perplexity’s hosted inference stack.

Aravind Srinivas is featured as a key operator behind Perplexity’s expansion from search into enterprise agents, AI browsers, voice, and memory.

AI executive and safety commentator associated with alignment and containment discussions. The newsletter quotes his distinction between the two.

Mustafa Suleyman appears in the newsletter as both a Microsoft AI product leader and a public commentator on AI safety, compute, and deployment strategy.

CEO of Google, cited here for announcing the Universal Commerce Protocol and sharing updates on Walmart and Wing drone delivery expansion. Relevant to AI PMs as a public signal of platform strategy and ecosystem orchestration.

Sundar Pichai functions as a strong public signal for Google’s AI platform strategy across consumer, enterprise, and developer products.

AI and developer tooling commentator mentioned for comparing agentic grep with LSP. Relevant to PMs evaluating code search and debugging workflows.

Jason Zhou is a practical commentator on AI coding workflows, agent tooling, and design experimentation relevant to product teams.

CEO of OpenAI and prominent AI industry figure. In this newsletter he is mentioned congratulating someone on joining Airbnb.

Sam Altman is the main public signal for OpenAI's product, platform, and governance direction.

OpenAI product leader/executive who publicly praised GPT-5.2 in the newsletter. Useful context for AI PMs tracking product and model reception.

Kevin Weil is a key OpenAI product voice connecting frontier model advances to practical product narratives in science and coding.

George Nurijanian is cited for defining practical experimentation guardrails. For PMs, his guidance helps ensure AI and product tests produce valid, actionable results.

George Nurijanian is best known here for defining practical experimentation guardrails that help PMs generate valid, actionable results.

Product management writer known for tactical PM advice. Here he warns that coding agents need security and performance audits.

Paweł Huryn is known for tactical guidance that helps product managers move from AI theory to practical execution.

CEO of NVIDIA and a prominent figure in AI hardware and robotics. He is mentioned demonstrating a home AI robotics setup at CES.

Jensen Huang is a key signal-setter for AI infrastructure, edge deployment, and full-stack product strategy.

Founder or advisor cited for investor-selection guidance for first-time founders. For PMs, his framework is relevant to startup strategy and choosing strategically valuable investors.

Marc Baselga is cited for practical frameworks spanning investor selection, AI adoption, customer advisory boards, and PM use of agentic coding tools.

AI researcher mentioned for criticizing input-space prediction and advocating representation-space prediction. Important to AI PMs because it signals a model-training philosophy shift.

Yann LeCun argues that prediction in representation space is more effective than input-space prediction for learning useful abstractions.

A contributor credited for a piece on automating presentation slides with agent skills. The newsletter places them alongside Isaac Plath on an agentic slide-building workflow.

Eleanor Berger is repeatedly credited with Isaac Plath on practical AI-agent workflow topics relevant to product teams.

A Google AI product leader who shared practical workflows for using Gemini’s new Chrome side panel. He highlighted multitasking, image editing, and auto-browse usage.

Josh Woodward is repeatedly associated with Google AI launches that turn advanced models into practical end-user workflows.

AI product and developer advocate who shares predictions on generative AI trends. Relevant for AI PMs tracking market direction and product strategy.

Phil Schmid is a recurring source of practical signals on generative AI product direction, agent tooling, and team execution.

PM commentator from prodmgmt.world who shared career advice focused on second-order thinking and agency. Relevant to AI PMs navigating career strategy.

George is a PM commentator known for practical advice on agency, second-order thinking, and AI-enabled product work.

A search relevance expert mentioned for discussing LLM evaluation. The post emphasizes careful pairwise evaluation and checking both directions.

Doug Turnbull is repeatedly cited as a practical expert on search relevance, retrieval systems, and LLM-era evaluation.

AI builder/demonstrator mentioned for a real-world browser automation demo. He shows Claude Code for Chrome autonomously handling a refund dispute workflow.

Carl Vellotti is repeatedly cited for practical Claude Code demos that show how AI agents can execute real PM and operational workflows.

Hugging Face contributor cited for proposing a multi-model agent architecture.

clem 🤗 is cited for proposing a multi-model agent architecture built around dynamic routing across specialized and local models.

A contributor credited for a piece on automating presentation slides. He is mentioned with Eleanor Berger in the context of agentic slide creation.

Isaac Plath is credited on multiple practical AI workflow articles alongside Eleanor Berger.

Product leader and thinker frequently cited for management and motivation advice. Here he emphasizes intrinsic motivation and autonomy for high-agency individuals.

Shreyas Doshi is cited as a high-signal product thinker on motivation, product sense, time management, and PM mastery.

A commentator who reports on AI and robotics demos, including remote surgery. He is relevant here as a disseminator of notable applied AI stories.

Rowan Cheung is relevant as an amplifier of important AI and robotics stories rather than as a primary builder.

Product transformation commentator discussing why organizational changes often stall without structural support.

Anu Jagga Narang argues product transformation fails when organizations demand boldness without changing the structures that shape behavior.

Product growth leader and writer referenced for introducing a product discovery feature in Reforge Build. He is connected here with AI-assisted mockup generation for product discovery.

Brian Balfour is referenced as a key voice connecting AI to product discovery, concept testing, and PM strategy.

An AI product leader or educator cited for showcasing live builds in Google AI Studio and GoogleLabs. She is relevant to AI PMs for prototyping and product experimentation workflows.

Marily Nika is cited as a practical voice for AI PMs on prototyping, guardrails, and product judgment.

A Hugging Face figure credited with demoing how to extend an AI agent with the Hugging Face CLI. The mention is relevant as an example of tooling for agent context and skills.

Julien Chaumond demoed how to extend an AI agent with Hugging Face CLI skills using `hf skills add --opencode --claude`.

Colin Matthews is mentioned as the source of commentary on Anthropic’s tool calling mode. The context suggests he is a builder/commentator relevant to agent tooling.

Colin Matthews is cited for commentary on LLM context windows, support-agent workflows, and Anthropic’s tool calling mode.

Research scientist and podcaster focused on AI, robotics, and technical conversations. Here he announces a long-form technical AI podcast spanning training architectures, robotics, compute, business, and geopolitics.

Lex Fridman is highlighted as a key host of long-form technical AI discussions spanning LLMs, robotics, compute, business, and geopolitics.

Instructor credited with teaching the SGLang short course. Relevant as a practitioner translating applied inference techniques into learning material.

Richard Chen is credited as the instructor of Andrew Ng’s short course on efficient inference with SGLang.

Scale AI co-founder and CEO mentioned for reporting record business performance. Important for AI PMs tracking enterprise and government AI infrastructure demand.

Alexandr Wang is most relevant to AI PMs as a signal of strong demand for AI infrastructure, data services, and deployment support.

A LinkedIn voice who highlighted Accio as an AI companion for e-commerce. Relevant to AI applications in commerce and market research.

Kuo Zhang is cited as a prominent voice connecting AI agents to real e-commerce and sourcing workflows.

A speaker or participant in a Zoom session about AI-fluency PM interviews. He is referenced in the same context as Ben Erez and Tal Raviv.

Aman Khan appeared in a major Zoom session on evaluating AI fluency in PM interviews with Ben Erez and Tal Raviv.

An AI/product commentator highlighted for observations about coding agents and codebase analysis. Relevant to AI PMs for understanding practical agent workflows.

Pawel Huryn is cited for practical observations on coding agents, agent trust, and AI workflow design.

Business and product leader who advises prioritizing customer problems and value creation over inference-cost anxiety. Useful guidance for AI product strategy.

Dharmesh emphasizes solving customer problems and creating value before worrying too early about inference costs.

Founder and operator referenced in a conversation about AI-native organizations. For PMs, he is associated with product thinking around orchestration, generalists, and AI-native companies.

Dan Shipper is referenced as both a builder of agent workflow products and a thinker on AI-native organizational design.

A commentator cited for forecasting AI-era PM hiring trends in 2026. The newsletter says he expects AI-driven feedback loops, domain intuition, and referral-based hiring to matter more.

Ben Erez is cited for forecasting how AI will reshape product manager hiring in 2026.

Venture capitalist and AI commentator discussing macroeconomic drivers for AI adoption and AI-first companies.

Marc Andreessen is cited as a key voice on the macroeconomic and organizational forces accelerating AI adoption.

A developer and AI educator featured for advanced Claude Code workflows. The newsletter credits him with demonstrating context loading, mermaid diagrams, and stop hooks.

John Lindquist was featured for demonstrating advanced Claude Code workflow strategies.

An AI/product builder mentioned discussing the speed improvements of Claude Opus 4.6.

Mike Krieger highlighted Claude Opus 4.6 running 2.5× faster and described it as a major product unlock.

Operator or commentator discussing enterprise adoption of AI agents. He highlights Ramp's use of Claude Code and a small PM team shipping many features.

Tyler Folkman is linked to commentary on enterprise AI-agent adoption through the Ramp example.

Investor or operator focused on AI labor-market opportunities. He cites Anthropic's labor market research as a guide to underpenetrated white-collar opportunities.

Jake Saper is discussed as an investor or operator focused on AI opportunities across the labor market.

Developer credited as the builder of OpenClaw. He is relevant to AI PMs as an example of an independent creator shipping a fast-growing AI automation product.

Peter Steinberger is credited as the creator of OpenClaw, a fast-growing open-source personal agent product.

PM and engineering commentator who emphasizes cross-functional training between product and engineering teams. Relevant to operating models for AI product development.

Madhu Guru emphasizes cross-functional training between product, engineering, and non-technical teams.

Creator featured in a walkthrough optimizing OpenClaw with Claude desktop and related automation techniques.

Moritz Kremb is featured as a practical creator focused on making OpenClaw reliably usable in real workflows.

AI/SaaS commentator cited for interpreting a16z spend data. He is used here to support the thesis that AI is stratifying SaaS rather than killing it.

Benoit Berthoux is cited for arguing that AI is stratifying SaaS rather than killing it.

A quoted individual in a commentary about code quality incentives in AI systems. The newsletter uses him as the source of a viewpoint on maintainable code.

Soohoon Choi is cited for the view that market incentives will push AI systems toward writing maintainable code.

A product leader or creator who wrote a guide to n8n for AI-infused workflows. Relevant to automation and AI workflow design for PMs.

Aakash Gupta is referenced for practical guidance on AI-infused workflows and emerging AI product distribution channels.

PM referenced for using a multi-bot Discord setup to support product building. He is highlighted as an example of a multi-player AI development workflow.

Diego Granados is referenced for using Discord as a structured workspace for AI-assisted product building.

A creator who demonstrates the Compound Engineering plugin and Claude Code workflow patterns.

Kieran Klaassen is known here for demonstrating a Compound Engineering workflow built around Claude Code CLI.

A founder demonstrating the Nebula AI agent platform. The newsletter credits him with the product demo and workflow details.

Furqan Rydhan is credited in the newsletter as the founder demonstrating the Nebula AI agent platform.

A product management creator sharing frameworks for AI-era roadmap presentations. He is credited with a strategic thread on improving roadmap communication.

George is known for practical frameworks that help PMs communicate roadmaps more strategically in the AI era.

Builder and creator referenced for an OpenClaw-based business walkthrough. The newsletter highlights his use of AI agents, automation, and multi-tool integrations to launch a product quickly.

Nat Eliason is cited as a practical example of using AI agents and automation to launch a revenue-generating product quickly.