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Oleg Nesterov and the Art of Making Yourself Less Busy
Before he founded MindK, Oleg Nesterov asked developers which chores they wanted to stop doing. Seventeen years later, that small question still explains a good deal about his work.
Pari Singh Wanted to Build Rockets. He Ended Up Rewiring How Engineers Build Everything
A rocket-company detour taught Pari Singh that hardware's real bottleneck was not the engine. It was the way people, requirements and decisions moved around it.
Simon Willison
Simon Willison is a British software engineer, open source creator, and AI commentator best known for co-creating the Django web framework and building Datasette, the open-source data exploration tool. He coined the term 'prompt injection' in 2022 and popularized 'AI slop' in 2024 - a word later named Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year. Through his prolific blog (active since 2002), newsletter with 54,000+ subscribers, and 100+ open source tools, he is one of the most influential independent voices at the intersection of LLMs and open source software.