Top KOLs
Top 20 research KOLs by dynamic heat, with categories and recent high-signal tweets.
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Charly Wargnier@DataChaz16521 tweets6.9K engagementbuilderWow. Someone just dropped an open-source clone of Claude's `Managed Agents` 🤯 Anthropic shipped managed infrastructure for scaling AI, but this tool puts that exact power on your own servers. It i...> "i can't automate, i don't know python" > does 3 hours of manual busywork daily > finds this article from @eng_khairallah1 on plain-English automations with Claude > builds one in 45 ...🚨 The "AI Layoff Trap" has been mathematically proven by UPenn & BU researchers. They warn that replacing workers with AI will trigger an economic collapse, and CEOs are stuck in a Prisoner’s Dile... - 02
Elon Musk@elonmusk1629 tweets1.2M engagementfounder - 03
@levelsio@levelsio14914 tweets27K engagementbuilderI said this I forgot to who but I said it BigTech will eventually come for all apps / startups / companies because they can fill the niches now that before could not because they were too small Tho...Young people (20s) barely use websites, 70% prefer apps, they mostly exist inside apps and games not websitesThe Industrial Revolution did create new jobs, it just took 40 to 60 years (!) after destroying the old ones I believe it could be faster now, AI itself says 10-15 years What makes it go slow "Regu... - 04
Ethan Mollick@emollick14014 tweets9.5K engagementbuilderSix months ago, there was a lot of focus on the idea that the there would be a massive glut of unused computing power which would could a recession as AI use plateaued. The "compute bubble" belief ...So the concern over Mythos and cybersecurity seems warranted.I am catching glimpses in my feed that there is a backlash against Mythos as "marketing hype," and it is a little confusing. I don't think anyone who has used the latest agentic coding tools, would... - 05
Richard Seroter@rseroter10812 tweets574 engagementbuilderHave you tried an agent gateway yet? You might end up with one sooner than you think. Rate limiting, tracing, model routing, policy management. All matter. From @ngrokHQ: https://ngrok.com/blog/ai-...Which software engineering stage eats up the most LLM tokens? I bet you'll get it wrong. It's code review! But different stages also have unique cost profiles with some very input heavy (documentat...Is a new composable AI coding stack taking shape? @janakiramm thinks so. Instead of one tool to rule them all, a different stack is showing up dev environments. https://thenewstack.io/ai-coding-too... - 06
Nous Research@NousResearch1055 tweets11K engagementbuilderHermes Agent v0.9.0 - “The Everywhere Release” Full changelog below ↓ https://t.co/aG5M6owBNSThe Hermes Agent dashboard is here! Run 'hermes dashboard' https://t.co/qu1Gwnz6BGFull Release Notes: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.4.13 Update with 'hermes update' https://t.co/J3tiSiQ0Lr - 07
andrew chen@andrewchen1057 tweets4.1K engagementinvestor“ok this startup is cool but …” 1980: … what if IBM builds this? 1995 … what if Microsoft builds this? 2010 … what if Google builds this? Today … what if <huge AI lab> builds this? reality is, if f...build an app - start by taking a photo Ex-snap team working on a new photo-first AI app creation startup - presenting at a16z speedrun demo day tomorrow!have become such a believer of hosting my own models as I’ve built a home lab and played with fine tuning and local AI models. They are so good now Great new startup that’s in a16z speedrun working... - 08
Dan Shipper 📧@danshipper1004 tweets9.6K engagementbuilderso sick philosophy is back y'all“An agent is just folder” is an insanely good mental model Kieran has changed the way I think about AI systems. Worth your time 👇Software engineering in 2026 needs two roles: A pirate and an architect. The pirate codes as fast as possible to figure out what's valuable. The architect turns that sloppy mess into a well-oiled m... - 09
swyx 🇬🇧@swyx1004 tweets9.4K engagementbuilderIf you're looking to improve your writing game, Anh is one of the most consistent heavy hitters I know in devtools HN and she literally just open sourced her writing Skills template for you to use ...btw ~80% of the world’s agents and ai engineering is done in these 3 square miles https://t.co/dBBQYK0uW3TIL @cognition usage has ~DOUBLED globally since these 2 launches. people are finding all sorts of creative usecases when u can compose agents together and make them proactive. agent recursion is a... - 10
Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin@jasonlk978 tweets1.1K engagementinvestor"My favorite exec interview question: What Have You Learned About the Company So Far? The mediocre always fail this test. They always really haven't learned much at all. Even if I'm the 10th interv...http://x.com/i/article/2041243072588382208Anthropic just hit $30B in annualized revenue in record time. But even more amazing. It did it with about ~5,000 employees. For context, here's what other tech companies looked like when they cross... - 11
clem 🤗@ClementDelangue912 tweets8K engagementfounderWe just OCR'd 27,000 arxiv papers into Markdown using an open 5B model, 16 parallel HF Jobs on L40S GPUs, and a mounted bucket. Total cost: $850 Total time: ~29 hours Jobs that crashed: 0 This now ...we used Chandra-OCR-2 by @datalabto: https://huggingface.co/datalab-to/chandra-ocr-2 Full write-up by @NielsRogge: https://huggingface.co/blog/nielsr/ocr-papers-jobs - 12
Cursor@cursor_ai883 tweets3.6K engagementbuilderorgWe've shipped several quality-of-life improvements to Cursor 3. They bring a little more delight when you are orchestrating agents. Just like in your terminal, you can now split agents for multi-ta...We've also made improvements to performance, including an 87% reduction in dropped frames when streaming large file edits. We are continuing to invest in making Cursor faster and more reliable. See...Workspace search now has file include/exclude filters. https://t.co/8lVpd2eHG7 - 14
GREG ISENBERG@gregisenberg862 tweets4.5K engagementbuilderhow to use claude code + 3 MCPs + 2 AI tools to go from cold idea to live A/B test in 1 session (full workflow): 1. connect ideabrowser as an MCP. pull your project context like ICP, positioning, o...NEW DISTRIBUTION HACK I never noticed this until today I was googling something random and saw Google now has 2 NEW dedicated tabs for "Forums" and "Short Video" Short video is "show me someone act... - 15
OpenRouter@OpenRouter832 tweets3.3K engagementbuilder🥷 Welcoming a new stealth model on OpenRouter: Elephant Alpha. Elephant is a 100B parameter instant model, matching SOTA performance of similar scale while being extremely token efficient. Strong ...Similar to other stealth models: 💰 It is free 🔑 The provider logs all prompts and completions for this model, which may be used to improve the model Try it on OpenRouter: https://openrouter.ai/op... - 16
eric zakariasson@ericzakariasson832 tweets3.2K engagementbuilderautomatically generate rules and skills based on previous conversations i've found this prompt to mine chat history to be very useful https://cursor.com/link/prompt?text=%23%23+Task%0A%0ARead+my+**...some people have already discovered this, but you can have cursor babysit your PRs in cloud to: - fix CI issues - review comments - handle merge conflicts this is heavily used internally, you shoul... - 17
Deedy@deedydas823 tweets2K engagementinvestorJeff Yan's profile is a vindication of people who grew up with modest means in a difficult family, was quite introverted and just fell deeply in love with something (math) His company Hyperliquid i...Source: https://colossus.com/article/beyond-the-sky-jeffrey-yan-hyperliquid/He's pretty cool! https://x.com/deedydas/status/1992624217645527238?s=20 - 18
Tibo@thsottiaux821 tweets4.7K engagementbuilder - 19
👩💻 Paige Bailey@DynamicWebPaige826 tweets453 engagementbuilderMy favorite: a @scratch interface for teaching people robotics! 🤩 Ideal state would be to have this in *all* high schools and colleges, both for simulations and real-world robots. Huge! And the de...same ❤️ @ycombinator https://t.co/pu2CelUJlr🤖 Wild @Android robot car using Gemma 4 E2B, running completely on-device! - Whisper for voice commands - Claude Code used for vibe-coding (but you could easily use @antigravity or @googleaistudio... - 20
Ben Lang@benln821 tweets4.6K engagementbuilder
