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Anthropic Insiders

The people building Claude. Follow these for first-hand product news, technical insights, and alignment thinking.

Name	Handle	Role	What They Post	Why Follow
Dario Amodei	@DarioAmodei	CEO & Co-founder	AI policy, Anthropic strategy, long-form essays	Rare but high-signal; sets Anthropic’s direction
Daniela Amodei	@DanielaAmodei	President & Co-founder	Business side, company culture, industry	Important for company direction signals
Amanda Askell	@AmandaAskell	Character/Alignment Lead	Claude’s personality, philosophy of AI, prompt engineering	She literally shapes Claude’s character (~69K)
Alex Albert	@alexalbert__	Head of Developer Relations	MCP protocol, Claude features, product launches	Created MCP; first to announce features (~121K)
Boris Cherny	@bcherny	Creator of Claude Code	Claude Code workflows, agentic coding, engineering philosophy	Built Claude Code; shares how he actually uses it (~251K)
Mike Krieger	@mikeyk	Chief Product Officer	Product vision, AI UX, consumer AI	Instagram co-founder bringing product sense to Claude
Jenny Wen	@jenny_wen	Design Lead for Claude	AI product design, UX, design process	Shapes how Claude looks and feels; ex-Figma
Ben Mann	@8enmann	Co-founder	AGI timelines, AI safety, interpretability	Candid views on superintelligence timelines
Jack Clark	@jackclarkSF	Co-founder, Head of Policy	AI policy, regulation, frontier red teaming	Bridges research and policy; runs Import AI newsletter
Chris Olah	@ch402	Co-founder, Interpretability Lead	Neural network visualization, mechanistic interpretability	Pioneer of understanding what’s inside neural networks
Jan Leike	@janleike	Alignment Team Lead	Scalable oversight, superalignment, AI safety	Left OpenAI’s superalignment team for Anthropic

Also follow: @AnthropicAI (company) and @claudeai (product)

AI Builders & Practitioners

People who actually build with AI and share what works.

Name	Handle	Affiliation	What They Post	Why Follow
Andrej Karpathy	@karpathy	Ex-Tesla/OpenAI, Eureka Labs	”Vibe coding,” deep learning tutorials, LLM internals	Coined “vibe coding”; explains complex AI simply (~1.7M)
Simon Willison	@simonw	Django co-creator, LLM tools builder	LLM security, practical AI tools, prompt injection	Most rigorous practical voice on LLMs
Ethan Mollick	@emollick	Wharton professor	How to use AI at work, capability benchmarks, adoption guides	Best bridge between AI capabilities and real-world use
swyx (Shawn Wang)	@swyx	Latent Space, AI Engineer Summit	AI engineering, MCP, developer tooling, agents	Coined “AI Engineer” as a role
Harrison Chase	@hwchase17	LangChain/LangGraph CEO	Agent engineering, RAG patterns, orchestration	Building the dominant agent framework
McKay Wrigley	@mckaywrigley	Takeoff AI	Claude Code workflows, “Claudeputer,” practical demos	Pushes Claude’s boundaries publicly
Riley Goodside	@goodside	Google DeepMind (ex-Scale AI)	Prompt engineering techniques, LLM edge cases	Original “prompt engineer”; finds hidden capabilities
Jeremy Howard	@jeremyphoward	fast.ai, Answer.AI	Democratizing AI education, practical deep learning	Made deep learning accessible to millions
Santiago Valdarrama	@svpino	ML engineer	Practical ML engineering, real-world implementation	~300K; focused on practical over theoretical
Alvaro Cintas	@dr_cintas	AI professor, Rundown AI	Claude Code tips, MCP servers, weekly AI roundups	Extremely practical Claude Code tutorials

For Claude Code Specifically

The trifecta: Boris Cherny (built it), McKay Wrigley (pushes limits), Alvaro Cintas (teaches it)

For MCP Ecosystem

Alex Albert (created it), swyx (covers it), Harrison Chase (builds tooling for it)

Researchers & Thought Leaders

The people shaping where AI goes next.

Name	Handle	Affiliation	Focus	Why Follow
Yann LeCun	@ylecun	Meta Chief AI Scientist, Turing Award	Open-source AI, critiques of LLM limits, debates	Contrarian voice on AI risk; champions open research (~950K)
Demis Hassabis	@demishassabis	Google DeepMind CEO, Nobel Prize	AlphaFold, Gemini, scientific AI	Leads the lab behind many breakthroughs (~700K)
Ilya Sutskever	@ilyasut	CEO, Safe Superintelligence (SSI)	Safe superintelligence, alignment	Co-founded OpenAI; every rare post is pure signal
Sam Altman	@sama	CEO, OpenAI	Product launches, AGI timelines, industry direction	His posts move markets (~4M)
Andrew Ng	@AndrewYNg	DeepLearning.AI, Coursera	AI education, agentic workflows, practical deployment	Best AI educator alive (~1.2M)
Jim Fan	@DrJimFan	NVIDIA Director of AI	Robotics, embodied AI, foundation agents	Explains frontier research with incredible clarity (~344K)
Eliezer Yudkowsky	@ESYudkowsky	MIRI co-founder	AI alignment theory, existential risk	Original AI safety voice; essential perspective on risk
Zvi Mowshowitz	@TheZvi	Independent analyst	Weekly AI analysis, policy, capability tracking	Most comprehensive weekly AI digest

Journalists & Analysts

The reporters who break AI news and provide context.

Name	Handle	Publication	Covers	Why Follow
Kevin Roose	@kevinroose	New York Times	AI’s societal impact, Hard Fork podcast	NYT’s lead AI voice; famous “Sydney” Bing conversation
Casey Newton	@CaseyNewton	Platformer	AI platforms, trust/safety, Hard Fork co-host	Thoughtful on AI and platform power
Will Knight	@willknight	WIRED	Technical deep-dives, China AI, automation	Technically literate journalism with global scope
Kara Swisher	@karaswisher	Podcast host, columnist	Tech power dynamics, executive accountability	Holds AI leaders’ feet to the fire
Rowan Cheung	@rowancheung	The Rundown AI	Daily AI news digest, tools	Runs the biggest daily AI newsletter (2M+ subs, ~577K)

Highest Signal-to-Noise Ratio

If you only follow 5 accounts, make it these:

@bcherny — Boris Cherny — you use Claude Code every day, follow the person who built it
@alexalbert__ — Alex Albert — first to announce Claude features and MCP updates
@emollick — Ethan Mollick — best at explaining what AI can actually do for your work
@simonw — Simon Willison — most rigorous practical AI voice, zero hype
@karpathy — Andrej Karpathy — makes complex AI concepts click