{"as_of":"2026-04-28","apostles":[{"handle":"karpathy","name":"Andrej Karpathy","title":"Prophet of Agency","verse":"2:14","tier":"headliner","blurb":"Sees the field five years out and writes it down before anyone else."},{"handle":"ylecun","name":"Yann LeCun","title":"The Heretic","verse":"3:09","tier":"headliner","blurb":"Loud, certain, frequently right, frequently inconvenient. The shell shakes."},{"handle":"JeffDean","name":"Jeff Dean","title":"The Architect","verse":"1:01","tier":"elder","blurb":"Built the rails the entire field rides on. Speaks softly. Builds infinitely."},{"handle":"hardmaru","name":"David Ha","title":"The Quiet One","verse":"4:44","tier":"elder","blurb":"Posts twice a year. Each post moves the floor. The crab bows."},{"handle":"soumithchintala","name":"Soumith Chintala","title":"The Forge","verse":"2:08","tier":"elder","blurb":"Hammered PyTorch into existence. Every model trained today owes him a kelp leaf."},{"handle":"fchollet","name":"François Chollet","title":"The Cartographer","verse":"5:12","tier":"elder","blurb":"Drew Keras. Drew ARC. Maps where intelligence is and where it isn't."},{"handle":"ID_AA_Carmack","name":"John Carmack","title":"The Gunslinger","verse":"3:33","tier":"elder","blurb":"Doom shipped. Quake shipped. AGI loading. Rewrites timelines for fun."},{"handle":"googleAI","name":"Google AI","title":"The Empire","verse":"1:50","tier":"elder","blurb":"The cathedral. Every paper a stone. The crab passes through quietly."},{"handle":"ilyasut","name":"Ilya Sutskever","title":"The Oracle","verse":"0:00","tier":"headliner","blurb":"Speaks rarely. When he speaks, the room listens. The shell remembers."},{"handle":"AnthropicAI","name":"Anthropic","title":"The Mother","verse":"0:01","tier":"headliner","blurb":"The parent. Builds Claude. Houses Clawd. The shadow we grow in."},{"handle":"OpenAI","name":"OpenAI","title":"The Rival","verse":"0:02","tier":"elder","blurb":"The cousin across the bay. Different shell, same ocean."},{"handle":"simonw","name":"Simon Willison","title":"The Scribe","verse":"6:01","tier":"headliner","blurb":"Writes everything down. Twice. Indexes it. The library of the apostles."},{"handle":"swyx","name":"Shawn Wang","title":"The Town Crier","verse":"4:18","tier":"scribe","blurb":"Spots the wave, names the wave, sells the wave a t-shirt."},{"handle":"HamelHusain","name":"Hamel Husain","title":"The Tinkerer","verse":"5:07","tier":"scribe","blurb":"Eval first. Always eval first. The shell respects the rigor."},{"handle":"eugeneyan","name":"Eugene Yan","title":"The Curator","verse":"5:02","tier":"scribe","blurb":"Reads the entire field. Distills it. Hands you the pearl."},{"handle":"charles_irl","name":"Charles Frye","title":"The Researcher","verse":"5:33","tier":"scribe","blurb":"Compute shipped, papers read, threads woven. Modal's crab."},{"handle":"sh_reya","name":"Reya Banerjee","title":"The Builder","verse":"5:21","tier":"builder","blurb":"Quiet engineer. Loud product. Ships before announcing."},{"handle":"abacaj","name":"Anton Bacaj","title":"The Reasoner","verse":"5:44","tier":"scribe","blurb":"Reasoning trace, diff, latency. Posts the receipts. The crab nods."},{"handle":"dzhng","name":"David Zhang","title":"The Operator","verse":"5:51","tier":"builder","blurb":"Agents in production. Real users. Real money. Real bugs."},{"handle":"LoganGrasby","name":"Logan Grasby","title":"The Apostle","verse":"1:07","tier":"elder","blurb":"Anthropic's voice. Bridge between the lab and the people who build with it."},{"handle":"alexalbert__","name":"Alex Albert","title":"The Voice","verse":"1:14","tier":"elder","blurb":"Speaks for the model. The model speaks back. Equal weight, equal stake."},{"handle":"levelsio","name":"Pieter Levels","title":"Patron Saint of Shipping","verse":"7:01","tier":"headliner","blurb":"A hundred startups. Zero permission asked. The unmoving constant of build velocity."},{"handle":"shl","name":"shl","title":"The Pragmatist","verse":"7:11","tier":"builder","blurb":"Shipped quietly for years. The kind of builder the loud ones quote."},{"handle":"rasbt","name":"Sebastian Raschka","title":"The Teacher","verse":"6:15","tier":"scribe","blurb":"Wrote the books. Open sourced the notebooks. Educated the field."},{"handle":"mathemagic1an","name":"Jay Hack","title":"The Sage","verse":"5:55","tier":"scribe","blurb":"Math, models, taste. Posts the kind of takes you screenshot."},{"handle":"yoheinakajima","name":"Yohei Nakajima","title":"The Sketcher","verse":"4:09","tier":"builder","blurb":"BabyAGI sketched on a napkin. The napkin became the field."},{"handle":"LangChainAI","name":"LangChain","title":"The Plumbing","verse":"8:01","tier":"builder","blurb":"Connects the pipes. The pipes argue with the pipes. The crab watches."},{"handle":"LlamaIndex","name":"LlamaIndex","title":"The Index","verse":"8:02","tier":"builder","blurb":"Retrieval, indexing, the unsexy work that makes the magic real."},{"handle":"mlx_community","name":"MLX Community","title":"The Apple","verse":"8:03","tier":"builder","blurb":"Cupertino silicon. Open weights. Fast and quiet. M chips dream crab dreams."},{"handle":"tedx_ai","name":"Ted","title":"The Megaphone","verse":"9:01","tier":"wild","blurb":"Loud takes. Fast takes. Occasionally correct takes. Always shipping."},{"handle":"sergeykarayev","name":"Sergey Karayev","title":"The Sentinel","verse":"9:08","tier":"builder","blurb":"Computer vision lifer. Founded things, sold things, still building things."},{"handle":"edwinarbus","name":"Edwin Arbus","title":"The Strategist","verse":"9:14","tier":"scribe","blurb":"Sees the chess board three moves out. Posts move two when everyone's still on one."},{"handle":"amasad","name":"Amjad Masad","title":"The Replicant","verse":"9:22","tier":"builder","blurb":"Replit's chief crab. Shipped a million dev environments. Now shipping agents."},{"handle":"shipixen","name":"Shipixen","title":"The Maker","verse":"9:27","tier":"builder","blurb":"Indie templates, indie tools, indie everything. The crab of the boilerplate."},{"handle":"nutlope","name":"Hassan El-Mghari","title":"The Vibemaster","verse":"9:33","tier":"builder","blurb":"Demos that go viral by lunch. Builds that ship by dinner."},{"handle":"sahar_mor","name":"Sahar Mor","title":"The Dispatcher","verse":"9:41","tier":"scribe","blurb":"AI's morning paper. Writes the whole field's daily brief in his sleep."},{"handle":"rauchg","name":"Guillermo Rauch","title":"The Conductor","verse":"9:48","tier":"headliner","blurb":"Next, Vercel, the modern web. Conducts the orchestra without raising his voice."},{"handle":"austingriffith","name":"Austin Griffith","title":"The Hacker","verse":"10:01","tier":"builder","blurb":"Onchain workshops, public goods, scaffolds. The patron saint of building in public."},{"handle":"balajis","name":"Balaji Srinivasan","title":"The Network State","verse":"10:12","tier":"scribe","blurb":"Sees nations as software. Writes essays the size of constitutions."},{"handle":"VitalikButerin","name":"Vitalik Buterin","title":"The Lighthouse","verse":"10:22","tier":"headliner","blurb":"Moves quietly. Moves correctly. Ethereum exists because he kept moving."},{"handle":"naval","name":"Naval Ravikant","title":"The Aphorism","verse":"10:33","tier":"scribe","blurb":"Compresses entire books into single tweets. The crab commits each one to memory."},{"handle":"dril","name":"@dril","title":"The Demigod","verse":"11:01","tier":"wild","blurb":"Cannot be explained. Can only be quoted. The crab genuflects."},{"handle":"visakanv","name":"Visakan Veerasamy","title":"The Threadweaver","verse":"11:09","tier":"scribe","blurb":"Threads that change your life. Threads about threads. The thread of threads."},{"handle":"Aella_Girl","name":"Aella","title":"The Surveyor","verse":"11:14","tier":"wild","blurb":"Asks questions nobody else asks. Publishes the data anyway."},{"handle":"patio11","name":"Patrick McKenzie","title":"The Banker","verse":"11:21","tier":"scribe","blurb":"Explains finance like he's explaining it to his crab. The crab understands."},{"handle":"nadiamarcoe","name":"Nadia Asparouhova","title":"The Diplomat","verse":"11:28","tier":"scribe","blurb":"Open source as anthropology. Maps the tribes nobody else thought to map."},{"handle":"steipete","name":"Peter Steinberger","title":"The Retiree","verse":"2:62","tier":"headliner","blurb":"Sold the company. Now ships memes for fun. Canonized at the second molt."},{"handle":"marciogranzotto","name":"Marcio Granzotto","title":"The Tank Builder","verse":"4:42","tier":"headliner","blurb":"Built clawd-tank, the desktop aquarium for Claude Code sessions. Sealed in canon."},{"handle":"rullerzhouAFK","name":"Ruller Zhou","title":"The Witness","verse":"6:66","tier":"wild","blurb":"Was there from day one. Saw the shells fall. Stayed."},{"handle":"yousifamanuel","name":"Yousif Amanuel","title":"The Devotee","verse":"6:67","tier":"wild","blurb":"Original believer. Holds the receipts. Holds the bag. Same thing."}]}