Tim O'Reilly
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Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media. Doing my best to help good futures happen.
It kind of snuck up on me, but I'm going to be joining @timoreilly.bsky.social on Live With Tim tomorrow (Wednesday) morning at 9AM Pacific! You should tune in: www.oreilly.com/live/live-wi...
Give Your Agents Superpowers: Jesse Vincent Live with Tim O'Reilly - Sep 16 - O'Reilly
What Claude's weights reveal about how it actually thinks
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Takeaways from last week's Live with Tim conversation with Anthropic interpretability researcher Emmanuel Ameisen. www.oreilly.com/radar/what-a... P.S. This morning, I'll be in conversation with Superpowers creator Jesse Vincent.
What AI Can Teach Us About Being Human
My guest on this past week’s Live with Tim O’Reilly was Emmanuel Ameisen, a researcher on Anthropic’s AI interpretability team. I’d heard him give a short talk
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I'm really looking forward to chatting with Jesse. We'll talk about Superpowers and where Jesse has gone since then, why he has written a therapist for AI agents, and why it's better to treat agents as colleagues than as assistants. learning.oreilly.com/live-events/...
Give Your Agents Superpowers: Jesse Vincent Live with Tim O’Reilly
Tools and workflows for a world where people think and agents do
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O'Reilly@oreilly.bsky.social · 2w agoOn 9/16, Jesse Vincent joins @timoreilly.bsky.social lly to share how a personal CLAUDE.md file and a handful of prompts grew into a methodology used by hundreds of thousands of engineers. Register here: bit.ly/4chZk4H
I'm really looking forward to this conversation. We should all be very interested to understand what's going on in the mind, so to speak, of AI.
O'Reilly@oreilly.bsky.social · 3w agoOn 9/9, Anthropic’s Emmanuel Ameisen joins @timoreilly.bsky.social to share what two years of research has shown about Claude’s internal representations. They’ll explore how researchers trace activation patterns, how Anthropic tests and observes said patterns, and more: bit.ly/46GDkMY
I made an offhand comment about AI for writing in my recent interview with @stevenlevy.bsky.social. A number of people have commented on that, so I wrote more about it. AI is a medium, and you get out of it what you put into it. oreillyradar.substack.com/p/writing-wi...
Writing with AI
A contrarian view
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Co-director @ilan-strauss.bsky.social on @bbcnewsunofficial.bsky.social commenting on Amazon training its AI models on Twitch creator data The challenge & opportunity, Ilan argues, is to use AI to grow the monetizable ecosystem for all, to benefit creators rather than compete with them Video 1 / 2
Prompt debt adds up fast, making prompts harder to maintain and migrate. In the latest #Radar, @timoreilly.bsky.social explores “prompt debt,” “fighting the weights,” and building AI systems that evolve with the models. Read more: https://bit.ly/4qbxj3K
Prompt Debt and "Fighting the Weights"
Drew Breunig is one of the smartest voices writing about AI today. He's the CEO and co-founder of cmpnd.ai, and a long-time hacker with a depth of experience
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Thoughts on why open source AI is more than open weight models, why it matters for developers, and lessons from the early web that suggest that the Labs may be making a mistake by rolling the system prompt and the harness and the model into an integrated app oreillyradar.substack.com/p/why-open-s...
Why Open Source Matters for AI
By Tim O’Reilly
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Simply marvelous: "The mind, according to Henri Bergson, is like a ‘single sentence that was begun at the first awakening of consciousness, a sentence strewn with commas but in no place cut by a period’." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jon Day · The Reality Effect: 'Did I think this, or was it Lucy Ellmann?'
What’s most unusual about Ducks, Newburyport isn’t its length but the sustained attention it pays to the details of...
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@timoreilly.bsky.social Tim O'Reilly it's been a privilege interviewing you for the OsProgramadores podcast. Thank you for everything you have done to share knowledge with others and to push the IT industry forward. youtu.be/qnl0mbQsb0U?... cc: @rose.bsky.team #bolhatech
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Why we should all be hoping for the AI bubble to pop and preparing for the opportunity to turn that into a golden age. Deeply rooted in Carlotta Perez's theory of the role of bubbles in technological revolutions. x.com/i/status/207...
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New at Can We Still Govern: New reporting is starting to reveal the human toll of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. @pamherd.bsky.social and I have been warning about this for a year. It will get worse. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-the-o...
When the One Big Beautiful Bill comes due
Real people are losing SNAP. Medicaid will be next
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95% of my communications from the Democratic Party look like this. I have never in my life signed up to be texted by a campaign or the party, and I spent fruitless months attempting to unsubscribe from these. These are functionally identical to scam texts.
This is insane www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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“The bond market still disciplines governments in ways no opposition party can match,” explains @timoreilly.bsky.social in a guest essay. “But we have arrived somewhere Montesquieu and Adam Smith did not foresee”
Elon Musk is building a form of capitalism that Adam Smith would hate
The merchants are becoming princes, writes Tim O’Reilly
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A piece I just published reflecting on Jeff Ding's book Technologiy and the Rise of Great Powers and applying its ideas to enterprise AI adoption, AI sovereignty, and the open source AI ecosystem. www.oreilly.com/radar/ordina...
Ordinary Engineers, Not Heroic Inventors
Jeff Ding's diffusion theory of the role of technology in great-power competition also applies to AI adoption, and it suggests that companies obsessed with the frontier might be optimizing for the wro...
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"More than 333,000 Missourians lost Medicaid coverage from January 2025 through February 2026, with nearly 92% dropped because of paperwork issues — not because the state determined they no longer qualified." This is *before* complex work requirements are in place.
Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4mo agoMedicaid paperwork problems continue to cost thousands of Missourians coverage missouriindependent.com/2026/06/10/m...
I’m chatting live with Harper Reed tomorrow at 9 am PT if any of you are interested. It’s a text based Q&A; only Harper and I will be live, but would love to channel your questions. If you can’t join, ask them here and I’ll lob the best of them at him. learning.oreilly.com/live-events/...
Your Next Product Is a Process: Harper Reed Live with Tim O’Reilly
Why the future of software depends on creativity, serendipity, and building weird stuff
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On June 10, Harper Reed joins @timoreilly.bsky.social to discuss why creativity, serendipity, and embracing the weird might be the real path forward—and what it means when software stops being a product and starts being a medium of expression. Register here: https://bit.ly/4chZk4H
I know this is from my company, so my recommendation might be suspect, but I'm finding this a really great way to keep up with the rapid pace of innovation in AI and software development. www.oreilly.com/radar/radar-...
Radar Trends to Watch: June 2026
Developments in policy and governance, infrastructure and ops, AI models, and more
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Good perspective on the barriers that libraries often put up to customers actually consuming their product. When late fees are eliminated, people actually return more books, and more people get library cards. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...
Opinion | Americans Want to Read. Give Them Books.
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Tomorrow morning at 9 am Pacific time, I'll be going live with @DJ44 to talk about how to build corporate data infrastructure that will allow AI agents to achieve their full potential. www.oreilly.com/live/live-wi...
Live with Tim O'Reilly - Free Event Series - O'Reilly Media
A series of candid conversations designed to slow down, dig deeper, and share real insights you can build on.
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"As long as there is unmet demand, as long as there are problems we haven’t solved and people we haven’t served, AI will augment human work rather than replacing it. It’s only when we stop looking for new things to do that the machines come for the jobs." @timoreilly.bsky.social bit.ly/4cVsExR
Scenario Planning for AI and the "Jobless Future"
We all read it in the daily news. The New York Times reports that economists who once dismissed the AI job threat are now taking it seriously. In February,
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Who gets to share the value of the AI boom? The action at Samsung and SK-Hynix makes clear the tension between employees and shareholder value, and also that profits are showing up in places that are very far from the ones with overheated stock market valuations. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Chip Bonus Boom: How Korea Learned Everyone Cares About Other People’s Money
Samsung workers press chipmaker to follow SK Hynix example and share massive profits
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We live in a world characterized by crisis after crisis, and need to improve our ability to respond. So I'm excited that Crisis Engineering, the truly indispensable book by my friends Marina Nitze, Mikey Dickerson, and matthew j weaver is coming out tomorrow. hachettebookgroup.com/titles/marin...
Crisis Engineering
Learn how to successfully emerge from complex crisis conditions with this practical, comprehensive guide. "A book I wish I’d had in difficult times.” ...
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"AI is not just a tool. It is a substrate that we shape...Creating a software product is increasingly like creating a document or an image or a piece of music. And that means that it can range from something throwaway to an enduring work of art." #Radar @timoreilly.bsky.social bit.ly/4dte0yS
"Conviction Collapse" and the End of Software as We Know It
A conversation with Harper Reed
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One of the takeaways from a mindblowing conversation with Harper Reed: We have this idea that a product is a thing, when a product may now be a dynamic set of possibilities, co-created and constantly modified by our customers. www.oreilly.com/radar/convic...
"Conviction Collapse" and the End of Software as We Know It
A conversation with Harper Reed
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So good! A wonderful metaphor for what's going on in AI coding today. www.dbreunig.com/2026/03/26/w...
The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House
Welcome to the era of sprawling, idiosyncratic tooling.
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