Community pushes Lauren (@poteto) as this year's most influential figure in AI
RachelVT42 · x · 2026-10-26
A post argues Lauren (@poteto) deserves recognition as the most influential person in AI this year. The quoted bio traces her path: raised in Singapore with no CS background, self-taught design, finance degree at Monash, first program an Excel VBA macro. After a failed startup, she blogged and tweeted while learning to code, got invited to speak at EmberConf in 2015, and that talk led to roles at DockYard and Netflix — tech lead, then engineering manager, before returning to IC work and open-sourcing hiring-without-whiteboards practices.
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