Only proven experts, practitioners, and scientists. No hype merchants.
| Person | Credentials | Why They Matter |
|---|
| Andrej Karpathy | Co-founded OpenAI, led Tesla AI, Stanford PhD | Coined “vibe coding.” His YouTube lectures are the gold standard for building AI intuition without requiring math. |
| Simon Willison | Co-created Django (major web framework), prolific AI tools practitioner | Writes the clearest practical analysis of AI tools at simonwillison.net. Builds real tools, not theories. |
| Ethan Mollick | Wharton professor, AI impact researcher | Author of Co-Intelligence. Studies how AI changes real work. Substack “One Useful Thing” is essential reading. |
| Swyx (Shawn Wang) | AI Engineer, coined “AI Engineer” role | Latent Space podcast. Bridges the gap between AI research and practical building. |
| Jeremy Howard | Founded fast.ai, former Kaggle president | Made deep learning accessible to non-PhDs. “Practical Deep Learning for Coders” is a landmark. |
| Chip Huyen | Stanford instructor, ML systems author | Author of Designing Machine Learning Systems. Practitioner-first perspective. |
| Amanda Askell | Anthropic prompt engineering lead | Leads the team that defines how to talk to Claude effectively. |
| Resource | What It Is |
|---|
| Anthropic Documentation (docs.anthropic.com) | Primary reference for Claude, Claude Code, prompt engineering |
| Claude Code Documentation | Harness-specific: hooks, MCP, CLAUDE.md, settings |
| GitHub Skills (skills.github.com) | Interactive Git and GitHub tutorials, built by GitHub |
| The Odin Project (theodinproject.com) | Free, community-driven web development foundations |
| MDN Web Docs (developer.mozilla.org) | The definitive reference for web technologies |
| Book | Author | Why |
|---|
| Co-Intelligence | Ethan Mollick | Best current book on working alongside AI — mindset, not mechanics |
| The Pragmatic Programmer | Hunt and Thomas | Engineering mindset bible. Not about any language — about how to think like a builder |