@chrisbarber - Resources I Use For Keeping Up With AI Progress as an
Chris Barber✓@chrisbarber
2025-07-14Resources I Use For Keeping Up With AI Progress as an Outsider (People To Follow!)
@peterwildeford - broad perspective, one of my top recs because of quality * quantity
@krishnanrohit - broad perspective, economics/macro lens
@BasilHalperin - economics + ai
@zhengdongwang - good long form prediction style pieces
@finbarrtimbers - business plus technical takes from someone who is in the weeds
@EpochAIResearch and people like @Jsevillamol, @ansonwhho - close to the data, forecasting, trends
@sudoraohacker - broad takes from someone in the weeds
@karpathy - how to use ai / high level conceptual understandings
@StefanFSchubert - macro, calling out BS, etc
@btibor91 - rumors and covering new unannounced features, more accurate predictions of when things might release
@max_paperclips - technically oriented takes, accessible to someone like me (swe background, no ai research)
@venturetwins @omooretweets - how to use ai media tools
@Dorialexander - macro takes, opinionated
@natolambert - high volume of interesting technical takes
@c_valenzuelab - a window into the future of ai video
@intellectronica - good takes on using ai as a consumer and developer
@Afinetheorem - economics + AI
@sebkrier - economics/policy + AI
@levie - AI from the perspective of a public company CEO
@binarybits - broad macro takes
@sayashk - economics + AI
@levelsio - AI from the perspective of a bootstrapped startup founder building AI businesses
i'm missing people - please tag them!
if twitter is too much information volume for you, then hacker news is pretty good. and if hn is too much volume for you, then news.yc/best is pretty likely to bring up most major things
@dwarkesh_sp - high quality deep dive podcast episodes, maybe check out the one with @tamaybes and @EgeErdil2 plus also the one with Carl Schulman, for two different perspectives
newsletters: the information, semianalysis. i'm also missing newsletters, please tag them!
using the latest ai tools yourself is more important than all of this! then you'll have a true feel for things