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List of most important thought leaders in Agentic Engineering/AI/vibecoding

A new list ranks the most influential thought leaders in agentic engineering, AI, and vibecoding, with Anthropic's Claude Code, Microsoft's MarkItDown, and OpenAI's Codex CLI among the top tools. The list, compiled by an unnamed source, features 46 entries including companies like Google, NVIDIA, and DeepSeek, as well as individuals such as Boris Cherny, Simon Willison, and Andrej Karpathy.

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List of most important thought leaders in Agentic Engineering/AI/vibecoding
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  • 01 Anthropic

@claudeai

26 Tools Β· 32 Intel

Top ToolClaude CodeView Profile β†’

  • 02 microsoft

github.com/microsoft

40 Tools Β· 1 Intel

Top ToolMarkItDownView Profile β†’

  • 03 OpenAI

@OpenAIDevs

50 Tools Β· 24 Intel

Top ToolCodex CLIView Profile β†’

  • 04 Boris Cherny

@bcherny

9 Intel

Top IntelReflecting on a Year of Claude Code (Boris Cherny)View Profile β†’

  • 05 google

github.com/google

14 Tools

Top ToolGoogle Agent SkillsView Profile β†’

  • 06 apache

github.com/apache

4 Tools

Top ToolApache SupersetView Profile β†’

  • 07 Matt Van Horn

@mvanhorn

3 Tools Β· 2 Intel

Top ToolCLI Printing PressView Profile β†’

  • 08 Marc Lou

@marclou

3 Apps Β· 5 Tools

Top AppIndie PageView Profile β†’

  • 09 bytedance

github.com/bytedance

26 Tools

Top ToolDeerFlowView Profile β†’

  • 10 Julia Turc

@juliarturc

9 Intel

Top IntelWhy LLM Inference Is Memory-Bound (Julia Turc)View Profile β†’

  • 11 Garry Tan

@garrytan

2 Tools Β· 4 Intel

Top ToolgstackView Profile β†’

  • 12 warpdotdev

github.com/warpdotdev

16 Tools

Top ToolWarpView Profile β†’

  • 13 HKUDS

github.com/HKUDS

22 Tools

Top ToolRAG AnythingView Profile β†’

  • 14 NVIDIA

@nvidiadeveloper

16 Tools Β· 22 Intel

Top ToolTensorRT-LLMView Profile β†’

  • 15
google-ai-edge

github.com/google-ai-edge

5 Tools

Top ToolGoogle AI Edge GalleryView Profile β†’

  • 16 openclaw

github.com/openclaw

44 Tools Β· 1 Intel

Top ToolOpenclawView Profile β†’

  • 17 Andrej

github.com/karpathy

15 Tools Β· 2 Intel

Top ToolnanoGPTView Profile β†’

  • 18 github

@github

4 Tools Β· 3 Intel

Top ToolSpec KitView Profile β†’

  • 19 ggml-org

github.com/ggml-org

6 Tools

Top Toolllama.cppView Profile β†’

  • 20 browser-use

github.com/browser-use

22 Tools

Top ToolBrowser UseView Profile β†’

  • 21 agentscope-ai

github.com/agentscope-ai

13 Tools

Top ToolAgentScopeView Profile β†’

  • 22 vercel-labs

github.com/vercel-labs

41 Tools

Top Toolagent-browserView Profile β†’

  • 23 rUv

github.com/ruvnet

33 Tools Β· 1 Intel

Top ToolRufloView Profile β†’

  • 24 roboflow

github.com/roboflow

10 Tools

Top ToolSupervisionView Profile β†’

  • 25 DeepSeek

@deepseek_ai

14 Tools Β· 2 Intel

Top ToolDeepSeek V3View Profile β†’

  • 26 datalab-to

github.com/datalab-to

6 Tools

Top ToolMarkerView Profile β†’

  • 27 denoland

github.com/denoland

18 Tools

Top ToolDenoView Profile β†’

  • 28 Peter Steinberger 🦞

@steipete

9 Tools Β· 4 Intel

Top ToolCodexBarView Profile β†’

  • 29 OpenBMB

github.com/OpenBMB

18 Tools Β· 1 Intel

Top ToolVoxCPM2View Profile β†’

  • 30 paddlepaddle

github.com/paddlepaddle

5 Tools

Top ToolPaddleOCRView Profile β†’

  • 31 getsentry

github.com/getsentry

40 Tools

Top ToolXcodeBuild MCPView Profile β†’

  • 32 Jesse Vincent

github.com/obra

34 Tools

Top ToolSuperpowersView Profile β†’

  • N33 NousResearch

@NousResearch

1 Tool Β· 8 Intel

Top ToolHermes AgentView Profile β†’

  • 34 nodejs

github.com/nodejs

6 Tools

Top ToolNode.jsView Profile β†’

  • 35 coollabsio

github.com/coollabsio

9 Tools

Top ToolCoolifyView Profile β†’

  • 36 @swyx

@swyx

25 Intel

Top IntelAINews: Megakernels are so dead and so backView Profile β†’

  • 37 Simon Willison

@simonw

66 Intel

Top IntelDevtools must be open sourceView Profile β†’

  • 38 Jesse Duffield

github.com/jesseduffield

5 Tools

Top ToolLazygitView Profile β†’

  • 39 Bellman

github.com/Yeachan-Heo

6 Tools

Top Tooloh-my-claudecodeView Profile β†’

  • 40 PostHog

github.com/PostHog

18 Tools

Top ToolPosthogView Profile β†’

  • 41 block

github.com/block

29 Tools Β· 1 Intel

Top ToolgooseView Profile β†’

  • 42 Sebastian Raschka

@rasbt

20 Intel

Top IntelControlling Reasoning Effort in LLMsView Profile β†’

  • 43 wevm

github.com/wevm

14 Tools

Top ToolwagmiView Profile β†’

  • 44 Gergely Orosz

@GergelyOrosz

14 Intel

Top IntelHow Building Software Is Changing at AnthropicView Profile β†’

  • 45 Nathan Lambert

@natolambert

20 Intel

Top IntelLatest Open Artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 Show the Utility of Open Models on the Pareto FrontierView Profile β†’

  • C46 ClaudeDevs

@ClaudeDevs

23 Intel

Top IntelGetting Started with LoopsView Profile β†’

  • 47 zed-industries

github.com/zed-industries

6 Tools Β· 1 Intel

Top ToolZedView Profile β†’

  • 48 cline

github.com/cline

10 Tools

Top ToolClineView Profile β†’

  • 49 Affaan Mustafa

github.com/affaan-m

6 Tools

Top ToolEverything Claude CodeView Profile β†’

  • 50 containers

github.com/containers

7 Tools

Top ToolPodmanView Profile β†’

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