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Building Organizational Intelligence

How O’Reilly Expert Intelligence generates actionable guidance using AI tools grounded in our repository of frameworks and practitioner insights.

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"Unrestricted global access to frontier AI technology is ending. The US government has taken steps to control who can use the most advanced models developed by American companies." Check out our August #Radar Trends to Watch for recent industry developments: bit.ly/4gcZUlQ

Radar Trends to Watch: August 2026

Developments in quantum computing, web, biology, and more

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We are pleased to announce our fourth virtual conference in the AI Codecon series. "Building with Open Source AI" will take place on August 31, 2026, from 11:00am to 3:00pm ET, and is FREE for all attendees. More details and registration link in today's press release: bit.ly/4w7U4a6

I'm so pleased to share that tickets are now available for @oreilly.bsky.social's brand new six-week cohort, Become a Software Architect with Neal Ford and Mark Richards, starting this September and limited to just 25 seats: www.oreilly.com/live/become-... We look forward to seeing you in September!

"We’ve been using a lot of different names for a lot of different things... I think we need to fix that, and that’s what this article is about: making the case that the name we’re looking for is “AI-driven development” (or AIDD)." Check out #Radar article @andrewstellman.bsky.social: bit.ly/4wF4I9D

We Keep Renaming AI Coding. Here's What I'd Call It.

Vibe coding, loop engineering, agentic engineering: Are they really just all names for one discipline?

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🚀 𝐀𝐈 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨. 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞. 🚀 𝑀𝑦 𝑛𝑒𝑤 @oreilly.bsky.social 𝑅𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑟 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒: 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 Boris Cherny, who runs Claude Code, told Business Insider that the phrase "vibe coding" had started to annoy him…

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Dan Guido joined @timoreilly.bsky.social for an encore of a talk he gave at the [un]prompted conference in March laying out the playbook for going fully AI native, which Tim called “far and away the best framework and discipline." Check it out: bit.ly/4x6a2Tg #Radar

AI as an Enterprise Operating System

A conversation with Dan Guido of Trail of Bits

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This week, data and AI evangelist Christina Stathopoulos looked at three developments shaping AI’s next phase: agents that can act across systems, infrastructure built for specific models, and world models that help AI understand physical environments. Check it out on #Radar: bit.ly/3Tvm1LC

"Thanks to natural language interfaces, AI applications can be prototyped quickly. You write what you want in English, hand it to a frontier model, and a working prototype appears in an afternoon... But as a way to build reliable systems, the natural language prompt is a trap." bit.ly/4fvWQkC

The Problem Is Prompt Debt

You can’t be model agnostic if you’re hand-tuning prompts

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Join longtime O’Reilly experts Neal Ford and Mark Richards for live workshops, architecture reviews, team exercises, and direct feedback. September 1–October 6 | 25 SEATS ONLY | $2,950 Secure your spot now: https://bit.ly/4ym4WDQ

This isn’t just another online course. It’s immersive, hands-on, experiential learning that combines expert instruction, real-world architectural challenges, team collaboration, and direct feedback. September 1–October 6 | 25 SEATS ONLY | $2,950 Secure your spot: bit.ly/4ym4WDQ

"The problem is that the people talking about loops aren’t all discussing the same thing. I counted at least four distinct architectures hiding behind that one word. So this post is an attempt to map out what everyone means." Read #Radar article by Laurie Voss to learn more: https://bit.ly/44XlhS2

What the Hell Is a Loop, Anyway?

The AI engineering world adopted a new favorite word this month, and it means at least four different things.

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On August 3, Drew Breunig will join @timoreilly.bsky.social to discuss the prompt debt that developers accumulate and share actionable strategies that will help you shed it, drawn from the work of agentic software developers. Save your free spot today: https://bit.ly/4chZk4H

Now that AI can write code, a student's submission no longer shows what they really understand. In this #Radar article, Eric Freeman, Ph.D. shared three approaches they're testing at the University of Texas in Austin: bit.ly/3S1yLcr

Teaching Coding When AI Can Write the Code

Now that AI can write code, a student's submission no longer shows what they really understand. Here, I share three approaches we're testing at the University of Texas at Austin.

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"The speed at which code went from total crap to “ah damn, that’s not bad” is what I have in the back of my mind, as enthusiasts are telling us that harness engineering and AI validation is real, it’s already here, and it’s getting better astonishingly fast." Charity Majors on #Radar: bit.ly/4bgjwTr

AI Demands More Engineering Discipline, Not Less

If you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what’s happening now.

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On the last week's Zero to Agent in 30 Mins, Craig Hewitt demonstrated how to turn a fresh Hermes installation into a social media agent that can study a person’s writing, draft posts, and plan recurring research, focusing on the context, workflows, and safeguards: bit.ly/4weVeB3

Are you considering becoming a certified #MicrosoftFabric Data Engineer? I'll be running one of my most popular live bootcamps at @oreilly.bsky.social on August 26th/27th. We cover every single skill measured in the DP-700 exam. www.oreilly.com/live-events/...

Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer Associate Bootcamp (DP-700)

Learn in-demand skills and become a certified Fabric data engineer

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Christina Stathopoulos, MSc focused in on 4 forces we’ve been tracking that are shaping the AI market: product strategy (and OpenAI’s hardware plans), expanding government oversight, the work of moving enterprise AI into production, and growing competition from Chinese frontier labs: bit.ly/4wxP67W

"The promise was a predictable boost in efficiency. And at first, it delivered. The demos were flawless. The prototypes worked. The agents reasoned with a clarity that felt almost magical. Then the invoice arrived." Check out #Radar article by Artur Huk to learn more: bit.ly/4x15KfH

The Economics of Agentic AI: Engineering for Imperfection

The price of adoption euphoriaYou played entirely by the book. You procured the most capable enterprise models, mandated adoption across your teams, and

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Check out the latest Live with @timoreilly.bsky.social recap on our #Radar to learn about Gene Kim's “strangest, most terrifying sysadmin experience” of his career and how he survived the sudden downgrade from Fable to Opus: bit.ly/4fE4VCu

Stranded in the Slow Zone

How Gene Kim survived the sudden downgrade from Fable to Opus

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"In essence, we are now great at generating stuff, but much less great at figuring out whether that stuff is actually any good." Check out the #Radar article by Rufus Rock to learn more: bit.ly/4vP3fvZ

You Probably Won't Read This Article...and That's OK

“Help! There are too many [LLM bug reports, blog posts about LLM bug reports, books, treatises, codices, scrolls, papyri, cuneiform tablets]! How do I choose

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We don’t just show you what agents can do. We show you how they think. You’ll learn the specific skills required to manage memory, integrate external tools, and orchestrate multi-agent swarms. Save your free spot: https://bit.ly/3SYO59S

"To attribute cost in a tool-using agent, you have to see inside the run that produced it. Once you build that visibility, you discover that cost is only where the trouble first becomes visible." Check out new #Radar article by Bennie Haelen to learn more: bit.ly/3TbLmdr

The Meter Was Always Running

Why the agent loop is the unit of governance

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I'm giving my Excel Skills for Finance course on the #OReilly learning platform on August 6th. Find out more and register: learning.oreilly.com/live-events/... @oreilly.bsky.social

Excel Skills for Finance

Financial functions, lookups, conditional formatting, and forecasts

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"Organizations are reducing managers at precisely the time they are becoming increasingly important to realizing their AI investments.” Read the full #Radar article by our David Michelson to learn more: bit.ly/4fA2eSJ

Managers Are Not Overhead: They Are Infrastructure

What recent data reveals about the role of managers in the age of flattening orgs.

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In this essay by Hugo Bowne-Anderson, you’ll learn what an agent harness is, how it differs from prompt and context engineering, how action complexity and context complexity determine the harness you need, and more. Check it out on our #Radar: bit.ly/4yC2CIX

Stop Overengineering Your Agent Harness

Coding agents dominate the conversation, but the harness your agent needs depends on its action and context complexity. Here’s how to build for the job in front of you.

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“It’s tempting to frame this as AI replacing freelancers, but what’s actually happening is that AI is absorbing repeatable tasks rather than eliminating the need for human expertise," said our Jon Hassell to TechRound. Check out the full comment here: bit.ly/3TcfrcN

Are US Small Businesses Quietly Replacing Freelancers With AI Agents? - TechRound

Small businesses are using AI agents for drafting, research and support work that used to go to freelancers. Experts say the shift is structural.

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Analysis of O’Reilly platform usage between Q1 2025 and Q1 2026 shows Digital Transformation learning grew 185% in the UK year-on-year, making it one of the fastest-growing business topics on the platform. Learn more in the press release: www.oreilly.com/pub/pr/3485