40 tech newsletters worth following, curated across AI engineering, system design, EM and PM
bibryam · x · 2026-11-06
Bilgin Ibryam curated a living list of 40 tech newsletters across four tracks:
- AI Engineering: Ahead of AI by Sebastian Raschka (229K+ subs, LLM mechanics), Simon Willison's Newsletter (75K+, public model/tool testing, prompt injection notes), Import AI by Jack Clark (148K+, frontier papers tied to policy and safety), AI by Hand by Tom Yeh (78K+)
- System Design & Architecture: ByteByteGo by Alex Xu, Kent Beck's Tidy First?, The System Design Newsletter, and more
- Engineering Management: The Pragmatic Engineer by Gergely Orosz, Engineering Leadership, Manager.dev
- Product Management: Lenny's Newsletter, Product Growth, The Product Compass
Advice: don't subscribe to all 40 — start with the top five in the category you care about most. The list is updated regularly as newsletters go active or stale.
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