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Creator of C# and TypeScript
The Danish engineering legend behind Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#, and TypeScript. He calls AI “a big regurgitator” — and yet positions TypeScript as the guardrail language of the AI era, uses AI in his own compiler work, and says AI is “doing the work” while humans supervise.
AI Researcher
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla. He declared that “the hottest new programming language is English” and coined “vibe coding” — the two phrases that defined how a generation of developers talks about programming with AI.
Creator of Redis
Salvatore Sanfilippo, the Sicilian programmer who created Redis, has become one of the most thoughtful voices for AI-assisted programming — coining “automatic programming” and insisting that code written with an LLM is still the programmer’s own work.
Founder & CEO of Lovable
The Swedish founder of Lovable — an AI tool that builds full apps from plain-English prompts — became one of Europe’s youngest self-made billionaires by betting that vibe coding is “the beginning of a new software economy.”
Creator of Flask
Creator of Flask and Jinja, the tools behind much of the Python web. His widely read 2025 essays — “AI Changes Everything,” “Agentic Coding Recommendations,” “A Year of Vibes” — chronicle one of the most influential skeptic-to-convert arcs in software.
Creator of JavaScript, CEO of Brave
Invented JavaScript in ten days in 1995, co-founded Mozilla, and now runs Brave — where he ships the built-in Leo AI assistant and champions cryptographically verifiable AI privacy, while warning against Big Tech’s “answer engine” model.
Creator of LLVM and Swift, Co-founder of Modular
The compiler virtuoso behind LLVM, Clang, and Swift bet his career on AI: he co-founded Modular in 2022 and created the Mojo language to rebuild AI’s compute stack and “democratize AI compute” — a mission Qualcomm bought outright in 2026.
Co-founder & CPO of Sentry
The creator of Sentry now codes almost entirely through AI agents and shipped Seer, an AI debugger that root-causes and patches production errors — while staying pointedly “grounded in what models are and aren’t capable of.”
Creator of Ruby on Rails
The famously contrarian creator of Ruby on Rails and co-founder of 37signals spent years dismissing AI autocomplete as a joy-killer — then declared AI agents “the most exciting thing we’ve made computers do since we connected them to the internet.”
AI Software Engineer
Cognition’s “AI software engineer” — the agent that plans, codes, debugs, and ships tasks end-to-end. Its 2024 debut demo defined the agentic-coding era, drew a viral backlash over inflated claims, and now anchors a company valued in the billions that acquired Windsurf.
Co-founder & CEO of Figma
The Figma CEO is weaving AI throughout the design platform used by millions, with a guiding aim to “lower the floor but raise the ceiling” — expand who can design while pushing what professionals can do.
Co-founder-CEO of Neo4j
Creator and CEO of the graph database Neo4j, who calls AI “a replatforming of the entire software stack” and has positioned graph technology as core infrastructure for grounding large language models in real, connected data.
Founder & CEO of StackBlitz
The founder-CEO of StackBlitz turned a dying developer-tools company into Bolt.new, an AI app builder that lets non-engineers ship full-stack software from a text prompt — one of the fastest-growing products in history, and a poster child for vibe coding.
Creator of Vue.js and Vite
Creator of Vue.js and Vite, two pillars of modern web development. He founded VoidZero to unify JavaScript tooling, then steered it into Cloudflare in a 2026 acquisition framed explicitly around serving AI agents — “building better tooling for agents.”
Creator of FFmpeg and QEMU
The reclusive French programmer behind FFmpeg, QEMU, and QuickJS — who quietly voted pro-AI in code, building TextSynth, an LLM inference engine written in plain C, and record-setting neural compressors.
Developer-Education YouTuber
Jeff Delaney’s wildly popular developer-education channel, famous for fast, sardonic coding explainers — bullish on AI tools and “vibe coding” while relentlessly puncturing the industry’s hype.
Hacker & Founder of comma.ai
The hacker who unlocked the first iPhone at 17 went on to found comma.ai and tinygrad, campaigning to “commoditize the petaflop” so that AI belongs to everyone — not just a handful of cloud giants.
Creator of Python
The creator of Python — the language AI itself is built in — uses coding agents daily at Microsoft and likens them to an electric saw replacing a hand saw, while insisting humans keep control of architecture.
CEO of Vercel
The Argentine-born creator of Socket.IO and CEO of Vercel — home of Next.js and the AI app-builder v0 — argues that AI will turn a hundred million people into software builders, coders or not.
Co-founder-CEO of Airtable
Co-founder-CEO of Airtable, who in 2025 “refounded” the no-code database company as an AI-native app platform built around conversational agents — arguing the shift to AI-native software is bigger than the shift to SaaS itself.
Creator of Bun
The creator of Bun, the fast JavaScript runtime, sold his company to Anthropic in its first-ever acquisition — convinced that as AI writes ever more code, the runtime and tooling underneath it “become way more important.”
Programmer & AGI Researcher
The legendary programmer behind Doom and Quake now works on artificial general intelligence at his startup Keen Technologies — and publicly defends AI as the latest in a long line of “power tools” that have driven all progress in computing.
Software Engineer
Creator of the Linux kernel and Git, and arguably the most influential programmer alive. A famous skeptic of hype, he has moved from measured optimism about AI as a developer tool to putting his foot down as top-level maintainer: Linux “is not one of those anti-AI projects.”
Founder of Dazzle, Former CEO of Yahoo
Google’s employee #20 and former Yahoo CEO who shut down her startup Sunshine in 2025 to found Dazzle, an AI personal-assistant company — betting her comeback on the agentic-AI wave.
Co-founder-CEO of Netlify
Co-founder-CEO of the web platform Netlify, who coined “Agent Experience” (AX) — the idea that AI agents are now first-class users of software — and shipped Agent Runners that let coding agents build and update live applications.
Co-creator of WordPress, CEO of Automattic
Co-created WordPress — the software behind roughly forty percent of the web — and runs Automattic. He told the community to “learn AI deeply,” ships AI products like Jetpack AI Assistant, and argues open source is the safest foundation for the AI era.
HashiCorp Co-founder, Creator of Terraform and Ghostty
Co-founder of HashiCorp (Terraform, Vagrant, Vault) and author of the Ghostty terminal. A self-described former AI skeptic, he now documents an agent-driven workflow in meticulous essays — shipping real features with AI and keeping “an agent running at all times.”
Co-founder-CEO of Datadog
Co-founder-CEO of the monitoring giant Datadog, who has pushed the company into agentic AI — shipping autonomous “Bits AI” agents that investigate incidents — while arguing observability is what will make AI systems trustworthy.
Co-founder-CEO of Stripe
Co-founder-CEO of the payments company Stripe, who calls AI a “gale-force tailwind” reshaping the economy and has said 2026 may be remembered as the first quarter of the singularity — one of tech’s most bullish voices on AI’s economic impact.
Co-founder & CEO of Supabase
The CEO of Supabase, the open-source database platform that quietly powers much of the vibe-coding boom, rode the AI app-building wave to a multibillion-dollar valuation — and predicts developers will “code a lot less in the future.”
Indie Hacker
The Dutch indie hacker behind Nomad List, Remote OK, and Photo AI runs a multi-million-dollar portfolio of products with no employees — and turned a three-hour AI coding session into fly.pieter.com, the first viral vibe-coded game.
Founder-CEO of Superhuman
Founder-CEO of the email client Superhuman, who rebuilt the product around AI drafting and triage and is steering it toward autonomous email agents — an unabashed believer that AI is the future of the inbox.
Creator of Three.js, the most widely used JavaScript library for 3D graphics on the web. Known online as Mr.doob, he has become an enthusiastic, hands-on demonstrator of what AI coding assistants can build — including a playable port of Quake to Three.js in about an hour.
Creator of Node.js and Deno
The engineer who put JavaScript on the server with Node.js and then rebuilt it as Deno. In January 2026 he declared “the era of humans writing code is over” — and weeks later shipped Deno Sandbox, infrastructure purpose-built for safely running AI-generated code.
Co-founder & CEO of Cognition
The competitive-programming prodigy behind Devin, the “AI software engineer,” has automated most of his own company’s code with it — yet insists the goal was never to replace humans, but to give every engineer “a buddy who helps you build more.”
Co-founder of GitLab
The GitLab co-founder shipped AI into the DevOps platform he built, then backed a new venture — the open-source coding agent Kilo Code — betting on AI tools that developers “could actually inspect, trust, and extend.”
Co-creator of the Django web framework whose blog has become the de-facto chronicle of practical LLM use for programmers — a relentlessly empirical optimist who documents what the tools can and cannot do.
Creator of Docker, CEO of Dagger
The creator of Docker and co-founder-CEO of Dagger, who is rebuilding CI/CD for AI agents — arguing a developer’s job is shifting from writing code to managing a team of coding agents that need isolated, repeatable environments.
Co-founder-CEO of Cockroach Labs
Co-creator of the GIMP image editor and co-founder-CEO of Cockroach Labs, who argues that agentic AI will drive an exponential explosion of databases — and that, just as almost nobody writes code by hand anymore, nobody will manage databases manually either.
Co-founder-CEO of Reddit
Co-founder-CEO of Reddit, who turned the platform’s vast trove of human conversation into a paid AI-training asset — signing licensing deals with Google and OpenAI while suing companies that scrape Reddit without paying.
Developer & Founder (t3.gg)
Developer-influencer, creator of the T3 stack, and Ping Labs CEO who ships AI products like T3 Chat — while warning that leaning on hand-tuned AI prompts is “a dangerous form of technical debt.”
Programming Streamer
Programming streamer (Michael Paulson offstage) famous for skewering AI hype — yet he codes with AI on stream, ran a Cursor-sponsored week of “vibe coding,” and bets AI creates more developer jobs than it destroys.
Inventor of the World Wide Web
The web’s inventor is building the AI he wants to exist: “Charlie,” a fiduciary agent that works for the user on user-owned data — while urging a CERN-style institution to keep ever-stronger systems aligned.
Co-founder of Windsurf
The co-founder of the AI coding editor Windsurf believes the vast majority of code will soon be written by AI — and that this will grow, not shrink, the ranks of software engineers by making building cheaper and more valuable.
Founder of Baichuan AI
Creator of the Chinese search engine Sogou who declared “China needs its own OpenAI” and, in 2023, founded the large-language-model startup Baichuan AI to build one — later pivoting the company toward AI-driven healthcare.
Creator of Ruby
The creator of Ruby stunned RubyKaigi 2026 with Spinel — a native Ruby compiler written largely with Claude, most commits marked “co-authored by: Claude” — declaring that generative AI has become a true development partner.
Kubernetes Pioneer
The Kubernetes luminary and retired Google distinguished engineer made a rare public choice: deliberately sitting out the generative-AI wave — no products, no investments, no crusade — until the black box gets decoded.
Creator of the Zig Programming Language
Creator and president of the Zig language, one of the few major open-source projects to ban LLM-generated contributions outright. He calls AI pull requests “invariably garbage” with “negative value” — they burn reviewer time and teach the contributor nothing.
Creator of C++
The Danish computer scientist who created C++, the language underneath game engines, browsers, and AI frameworks themselves. In 2025 interviews he voiced “serious concerns” about AI coding — stale averaged solutions, unverifiable output, and developers losing the ability to spot problems.
Veteran Developer & YouTuber
Veteran software engineer behind the “Internet of Bugs” channel whose viral 2024 teardown showed the “AI software engineer” Devin failing its own advertised task — a prominent skeptic of AI-coding hype.
Founder and Lead Developer of curl
Creator of curl, the transfer tool running in some twenty billion installations. Buried under fabricated “AI slop” vulnerability reports, he instituted instant bans, declared the project “effectively being DDoSed,” and shut down curl’s bug bounty entirely in 2026.
Creator of Stardew Valley
The solo developer behind Stardew Valley (as ConcernedApe) has pledged that his games will always be AI-free, saying that using generative AI means offloading creativity to an algorithm instead of a human being.
Tech Whistleblower
The Facebook whistleblower who leaked 21,000 internal documents and told the Senate that engagement-optimizing algorithms put “astronomical profits before people” — now warning that AI companions for children are the next legal battleground.
Creator of Java
The “father of Java,” one of the most-used programming languages in history. Gosling has become one of tech’s bluntest AI deflators — calling AI “mostly a scam” driven by grifters, and generative output “fundamentally horseshit.”
Netscape Pioneer
The Netscape and Mozilla pioneer turned nightclub owner wages one of the web’s most gleeful anti-AI campaigns — feeding LLM scrapers infinite machine-generated nonsense from a honeypot on jwz.org.
Co-founder of Stack Overflow
Coding Horror blogger and Stack Overflow co-founder who warns that LLMs were built on the Q&A commons his community created — and that AI companies hollowing out those communities will destroy their own foundation.
Game Designer & Programmer
Creator of Braid and The Witness, and indie gaming’s most exacting programmer — a caustic critic who says AI-generated code is very low quality, not understood even by the AIs that wrote it, and a driver of skill decay.
Streamer & Game Developer
The ex-Blizzard developer behind Heartbound became one of Twitch’s biggest gamedev voices — and one of generative AI’s loudest in-platform critics, auto-timing-out an allegedly AI-made Twitch emote and declaring that generative AI “makes you look like a clown.”
Creator of Clojure
The revered creator of the Clojure programming language. His December 2025 essay “Thanks AI!” is one of the most scathing indictments of generative AI written by a major language designer — piracy of “the entire historical output of creative humanity,” slop, and the destruction of programming apprenticeship.
Founder of the Free Software Movement
GNU founder and free-software patriarch who calls ChatGPT a “bullshit generator,” maintains a standing page of reasons not to use it, and whose FSF branded GitHub Copilot “unacceptable and unjust.”
CEO of Obsidian
CEO of the note-taking app Obsidian (and the designer known as “kepano”), who has deliberately kept the product local-first and human-first rather than AI-first — arguing that durable tools should preserve the user’s ownership and agency, not think on their behalf.
