Tim O'Reilly
@timoreilly.bsky.social
Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media. Doing my best to help good futures happen.
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 · 2mo 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...
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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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Except it's not a constitutional crisis, because everyone's just basically shrugging. It's something MUCH worse! A constitutional collapse.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew from me: The Senate offered a bipartisan solution to the growing airport crisis. Mike Johnson rejected it, empowering Trump to selectively grab more legislative powers by illegally paying TSA agents. This is an actual constitutional crisis folks. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mike-johns...
"The eight levels of coder evolution, the addictive pull of multi-agent workflows, grief and denial in the developer community, the bitter lesson, and why taste may be the last remaining competitive advantage. Here are some of the highlights." @timoreilly.bsky.social #Radar bit.ly/41e7kNn
Steve Yegge Wants You to Stop Looking at Your Code
A conversation about agent orchestration, AI vampires, and why your bike ride is all hills now
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A proposal jointly authored by me and Claude for an entirely new class of financial instrument designed to let the market keep betting on ambitious visions while creating a price for proof. timoreilly.substack.com/p/what-shoul...
What should a dollar of proof be worth?
Speculation versus fundamentals in modern wealth creation
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New, from me: The federal government is required to track job satisfaction among its employees. The Trump admin stopped collecting the data, so a nonprofit stepped in. The results show that a collapse in morale and zero trust in Trump agency leaders. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/federal-em...
Federal employees are not ok
A new survey shows collapsing federal employee morale
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Admitting publicly that you only want this bill that is designed to disenfranchise voters is necessary to make sure your party wins is quite a choice. The GOP has done away with subtlety and euphemisms and is now all "we need to cheat because the polls say people don't like us."
Some of you might enjoy the rants from the incomparable Steve Yegge that I captured in the takeaway post from our 1 hour conversation earlier this week. One to two minute videos of the best ones are embedded in this post www.oreilly.com/radar/steve-...
Steve Yegge Wants You to Stop Looking at Your Code
A conversation about agent orchestration, AI vampires, and why your bike ride is all hills now
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Going live with Steve Yegge at 9 am pacific, noon eastern. Listen in for his take on the cutting edge of AI assisted software development. 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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I am going to be interviewing Steve Yegge on Live With Tim O'Reilly this coming Tuesday. I would love your help suggesting questions for Steve about the future of agentic software development. You are also all invited to join, and can ask your questions there too. 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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Dave was such a marvelous teacher and friend. I first met him when we were on the board I was the internet society together. But he was also an inspiration and a help in so many other ways. He will be missed. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/t...
David J. Farber, ‘Grandfather of the Internet,’ Dies at 91
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