McKay Wrigley

McKay Wrigley became one of the most recognized AI developers in the world after building Chatbot UI, an open source ChatGPT interface that racked up 25K+ GitHub stars and became one of the most-forked AI projects of 2023. It was the project that put him on the map. Since then, McKay has pivoted to education and building. He founded Takeoff AI and has become one of the leading voices on using Claude Code for real development work. His tutorials cover everything from setting up agentic workflows to using Claude Code for notes, research, and building full SaaS applications. He was featured on the ARK Invest podcast discussing AI tools, and his Substack covers practical insights on Claude, Opus, and building with AI agents. He approaches AI development with a pragmatic, builder-first mindset that resonates with developers who want to ship, not just experiment.