Tim O'Reilly

I’ve been working to teach Claude how to write more like a human, so it can do more routine reporting like this for me, and it’s finally gotten good enough that we can give it a byline! Let me know what you think. oreillyradar.substack.com/p/owners-not...

I'm really looking forward to this. It's going to be a little odd talking about it before it's released, but I will just say that what I have seen is very impressive. And even understanding the theory behind it will move the world in a positive direction!

What is the value of human expertise when using AI? The Bitter Lesson says that humans should just throw in the towel. I don't buy it. The work of Andrew Odewahn, our CTO at O'Reilly, says a lot about why. Human expertise is like a lens that can focus the raw power of AI. Join us.You won't regret it

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...

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.

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/...

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.

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...

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

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...

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...

@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

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...

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...

This is insane www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

“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”

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...

"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.

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/...

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-...

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...

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...

Totally.

Lawrence taught me scenario planning, so his approval makes me very happy!

"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

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...

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...

"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

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...

So good! A wonderful metaphor for what's going on in AI coding today. www.dbreunig.com/2026/03/26/w...

Except it's not a constitutional crisis, because everyone's just basically shrugging. It's something MUCH worse! A constitutional collapse.

"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

Very much worth reading. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

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...

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...

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-...

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...

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...

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...

Addy is one of my favorite people to talk to about the future of software! I'm really looking forward to this conversation

From @adamtooze.bsky.social: The final paragraph of Joseph Schumpeter’s chapter-length introduction of his theory of democracy is such a banger. Source: J.A. Schumpter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. 1943.

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For our March event, hosted by @addyosmani.bsky.social and @timoreilly.bsky.social, we want war stories, demos of “background coding” workflows, and deep dives into how you are combining the rigor of traditional engineering with the flexibility of AI. Submit your proposal by 2/17: bit.ly/49mpTUN