The people building the future of software
Meet the founders, engineers, product leaders, and open-source creators behind the AI coding tools, agents, and developer platforms changing how software gets made.
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Ecosystem
OpenAI
OpenAI
Tibo Sottiaux
Product leader
A product leader whose work connects OpenAI's coding agents, research, and the broader ChatGPT experience.
Read profileOpenAI
Alexander Embiricos
Codex product lead
The product leader helping turn Codex from a coding agent into a multi-environment software engineering system.
Read profileOpenAI
Jason Liu
Developer Experience, Codex
An engineer and educator working on Codex developer experience after building the popular Instructor library.
Read profileOpenAI
Nick Turley
VP, Head of ChatGPT
The product executive guiding ChatGPT as it expands from conversational AI into a platform for tools and agents.
Read profileOpenAI / OpenClaw
Peter Steinberger
Agent builder
The veteran software founder behind OpenClaw, now working on the next generation of personal agents at OpenAI.
Read profileEcosystem
Anthropic
Anthropic
Boris Cherny
Head of Claude Code
The engineer who originated Claude Code and leads Anthropic's effort to make the terminal an agentic development environment.
Read profileAnthropic
Catherine “Cat” Wu
Head of Product, Claude Code
The product leader shaping how Claude Code turns rapidly improving models into practical software-development workflows.
Read profileAnthropic
Thariq Shihipar
Member of Technical Staff
An Anthropic engineer explaining and building the context, skills, and harness patterns behind Claude Code.
Read profileAnthropic / Bun
Jarred Sumner
Engineer and founder
The creator of the fast JavaScript runtime Bun, now part of Anthropic's developer-tooling organization.
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Cursor
Cursor
Michael Truell
Co-founder and CEO
The CEO who helped turn Cursor from an AI-native editor experiment into a central platform for coding agents.
Read profileCursor
Aman Sanger
Co-founder
A Cursor co-founder with a research and engineering background focused on making AI-native programming practical.
Read profileCursor
Sualeh Asif
Co-founder
One of Cursor's four co-founders, working across the product and organization behind the AI code editor.
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Cognition
Cognition
Scott Wu
Co-founder and CEO
The competitive programmer and CEO leading Cognition's attempt to build autonomous AI software engineers.
Read profileCognition
Walden Yan
Co-founder and CPO
A Cognition co-founder shaping Devin's product direction and the workflows around autonomous engineering agents.
Read profileCognition
Steven Hao
Co-founder and CTO
The Cognition co-founder and technical leader helping build the models and infrastructure behind Devin.
Read profileEcosystem
Lovable
Lovable
Anton Osika
Co-founder and CEO
The AI engineer and founder leading Lovable's mission to let anyone build software by describing it.
Read profileLovable
Fabian Hedin
Co-founder and CTO
The technical co-founder building the infrastructure that turns natural-language product ideas into working applications.
Read profileLovable
Nakul Narayan
Head of Product
Lovable's newly appointed product leader, joining as the company expands from prompt-to-app creation into a broader platform.
Read profileEcosystem
Replit
Replit
Amjad Masad
Founder and CEO
The programmer and founder building Replit into an accessible software-creation platform powered by AI agents.
Read profileReplit
Michele Catasta
President and Head of AI
The applied-AI leader directing Replit's agent research, product execution, and broader company operations.
Read profileReplit
Jordan Walke
Head of Product
React's original creator, now applying a language-and-tools mindset to product development at Replit.
Read profileReplit
Luis Héctor Chávez
CTO
Replit's CTO, responsible for the engineering systems that let AI agents build, run, and deploy software in the cloud.
Read profileEcosystem
Open Source & Independent
OpenCode
Dax Raad
Co-creator
A developer and company builder behind OpenCode, the open-source, provider-neutral coding agent gaining rapid adoption.
Read profilePi
Mario Zechner
Creator
An independent developer known for compact, hackable tools and the deliberately minimal Pi coding-agent harness.
Read profileAmp
Quinn Slack
Co-founder
A Sourcegraph co-founder now focused on Amp and a model of coding-agent development built around frontier capabilities.
Read profileAmp / Sourcegraph
Beyang Liu
Co-founder
A Sourcegraph co-founder working at the intersection of code intelligence, developer tools, and agentic software creation.
Read profileAider
Paul Gauthier
Creator
The creator of Aider, one of the earliest widely adopted open-source pair-programming agents for the terminal.
Read profileCline
Saoud Rizwan
Founder and CEO
The founder behind Cline, the open-source IDE agent that made transparent tool use and bring-your-own-model workflows mainstream.
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