AI
3 inducteesThe people defining what production agents look like on the Microsoft stack - the framework contributors and architects behind AutoGen and the Microsoft Agent Framework.
Victor Dibia
AutoGen core developer and Microsoft Agent Framework core contributor. Writes prolifically on multi-agent systems, evaluation, and the practical realities of shipping LLM-driven workflows - the gap between a demo and a deployment.
Eric Zhu
AutoGen architect and Microsoft Agent Framework principal architect. His design choices shape what agents on the Microsoft stack actually look like in production - the abstractions the rest of us inherit and build against.
Boris Cherny
Creator and head of Claude Code at Anthropic - the agentic coding tool that brought a capable AI engineer into the terminal. His work has helped define what it actually feels like to build software alongside an autonomous coding agent.
Engineering
1 inducteeThe platform builders whose tools and frameworks sit underneath modern .NET applications - the orchestration, real-time, and runtime craft most developers use without thinking about who designed it.
David Fowler
Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft on .NET and ASP.NET Core, and a driving force behind the tooling underneath modern .NET - from SignalR for real-time apps to Aspire for orchestrating distributed services. Much of the framework ergonomics developers take for granted trace back to his design work.
Languages
1 inducteeThe language designers whose work most developers write code in every day - the syntax, type systems, and compilers that quietly shape how millions of people think about software.
Anders Hejlsberg
Technical Fellow at Microsoft and one of the most prolific language designers in computing - original author of Turbo Pascal, the architect behind Delphi, lead architect of C#, and core designer of TypeScript. Few people have shaped how developers write code as directly or as often.
Performance
1 inducteeThe people who make the platform fast - the runtime, async, and low-level performance work most developers benefit from every day without ever seeing it.
Stephen Toub
Partner Software Engineer at Microsoft and the definitive authority on .NET performance - async, threading, and the runtime internals. His annual "Performance Improvements in .NET" deep-dives are essential reading for anyone who cares how the platform goes fast.