Tim O'Reilly
@timoreilly.bsky.social
Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media. Doing my best to help good futures happen.
Anthropic recently shocked Cursor by suddenly raising its prices. Researcher Anjali Shrivavastava argued that this wasn't price gouging, but a clue to a fundamental economic issue with token pricing. Join us tomorrow morning at 8 am PT to talk about her research. www.oreilly.com/live/live-wi...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Anthropic recently shocked Cursor by suddenly raising its prices. Researcher Anjali Shrivavastava argued that this wasn't price gouging, but a clue to a fundamental economic issue with token pricing. Join us tomorrow morning at 8 am PT to talk about her research. www.oreilly.com/live/live-wi...
I had a great interaction with a customer service chatbot last week, and yet the customer service itself was no better. That left me thinking about why that was, and why making the AI better isn't the answer.
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AI Integration Is the New Moat
The electrical system warning light had gone on in my Kona EV over the weekend, and all the manual said was to take it to the dealer for evaluation. I first
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October 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I had a great interaction with a customer service chatbot last week, and yet the customer service itself was no better. That left me thinking about why that was, and why making the AI better isn't the answer.
www.oreilly.com/radar/integr...
www.oreilly.com/radar/integr...
About to go live with Sam Newman, talking about the new economics of AI, how AI changes software architecture, and much more. learning.oreilly.com/live-events/...
Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Technologist Sam Newman
How should infrastructure evolve for AI workloads?
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September 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
About to go live with Sam Newman, talking about the new economics of AI, how AI changes software architecture, and much more. learning.oreilly.com/live-events/...
About to start Live with Tim O'Reilly, talking with the creators of Google Docs, about what their experience might teach us about rethinking UI for AI. learning.oreilly.com/live-events/...
Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Google Docs Founders Sam Schillace, Steve Newman, and Claudia Carpenter
Lessons from the past on seeing—and creating—the future
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August 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
About to start Live with Tim O'Reilly, talking with the creators of Google Docs, about what their experience might teach us about rethinking UI for AI. learning.oreilly.com/live-events/...
It's the 20th anniversary of the launch of Writely, which became Google Docs. Next Tuesday I'll be chatting with Sam Schillace, Steve Newman, and Claudia Carpenter, the founders of Writely, on what the leap they made might teach us about leaps ahead for AI. Join us!
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We Are Only Beginning to Understand How to Use AI
Lessons from Google Docs and Other Internet Innovations
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August 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It's the 20th anniversary of the launch of Writely, which became Google Docs. Next Tuesday I'll be chatting with Sam Schillace, Steve Newman, and Claudia Carpenter, the founders of Writely, on what the leap they made might teach us about leaps ahead for AI. Join us!
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Tomorrow, on Live with Tim O'Reilly, I'll be talking with Arvind Narayanan of Princeton about his notion that AI is a "normal technology" rather than the beginning of an unprecedented singularity.
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Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Princeton’s Arvind Narayanan
Is AI unprecedented, or is it a “normal technology”?
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August 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Tomorrow, on Live with Tim O'Reilly, I'll be talking with Arvind Narayanan of Princeton about his notion that AI is a "normal technology" rather than the beginning of an unprecedented singularity.
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Seems like a good source on the state of the economy of the high frontier
"Introduction to in-space manufacturing, in-space economy and alternatively new space economy. Related fields include microgravity services, space resources, in-space transport ...
www.factoriesinspace.com
"Introduction to in-space manufacturing, in-space economy and alternatively new space economy. Related fields include microgravity services, space resources, in-space transport ...
www.factoriesinspace.com
Factories in Space
Space economy - Making products for Earth and space
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August 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Seems like a good source on the state of the economy of the high frontier
"Introduction to in-space manufacturing, in-space economy and alternatively new space economy. Related fields include microgravity services, space resources, in-space transport ...
www.factoriesinspace.com
"Introduction to in-space manufacturing, in-space economy and alternatively new space economy. Related fields include microgravity services, space resources, in-space transport ...
www.factoriesinspace.com
Financial markets are increasingly just gambling. Why do their profits get capital gains treatment when there is no capital being provided to anyone producting anything. If we want investment in the real economy, this kind of stuff should be facing a pigovian tax. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
Bet on or Against the Unicorns
Also the meme-stock revival, home insurance and tokenized crypto treasury companies.
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July 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Financial markets are increasingly just gambling. Why do their profits get capital gains treatment when there is no capital being provided to anyone producting anything. If we want investment in the real economy, this kind of stuff should be facing a pigovian tax. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
Super interesting : Reading Abundance from China. (via @noahpinion) afraw.substack.com/p/reading-ab...
Reading Abundance from China
I organized a Chinese-language reading group for Abundance and we examined Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's ideals through the lens of China
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July 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Super interesting : Reading Abundance from China. (via @noahpinion) afraw.substack.com/p/reading-ab...
Whether AI creates or destroys jobs depends on where companies are in the innovation cycle. This thought led me down a rabbit hole of talking with ChatGPT and Gemini about AI and enshittification.
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Where Is AI on the Enshittification Curve?
A Conversation with ChatGPT and Gemini About Job Losses from AI
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July 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Whether AI creates or destroys jobs depends on where companies are in the innovation cycle. This thought led me down a rabbit hole of talking with ChatGPT and Gemini about AI and enshittification.
www.oreilly.com/radar/where-...
www.oreilly.com/radar/where-...
Chelsea Troy's masterful expansion on our Live with Tim O'Reilly conversation, answering the questions we didn't get to, and saying more about the ones we did. She does it "more slowly" (as I put it in my intro to the show), so her points really stick the landing.
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How to survive the apocalypse: a conversation with Tim O’Reilly about Generative AI
Sunlight fire-hosed through my east facing window at 5:15 AM last Wednesday. I have learned, in my eleven Chicago years, to welcome this part of summer. I scraped up a pair of shorts, tromped downs…
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June 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Chelsea Troy's masterful expansion on our Live with Tim O'Reilly conversation, answering the questions we didn't get to, and saying more about the ones we did. She does it "more slowly" (as I put it in my intro to the show), so her points really stick the landing.
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The @oreillymedia May online conference on the future of coding with AI was a huge success, so Addy Osmani and I are doing it again on September 9, with a focus on coding for agentic AI. www.oreilly.com/radar/coding...
Coding for the Future Agentic World
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June 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The @oreillymedia May online conference on the future of coding with AI was a huge success, so Addy Osmani and I are doing it again on September 9, with a focus on coding for agentic AI. www.oreilly.com/radar/coding...
The second guest on my new show Live with Tim O'Reilly is the inimitable Chelsea Troy, who leads the machine learning operations team at Mozilla, teaches computer science at the University of Chicago, and through the O'Reilly platform.
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Chelsea Troy Live with Tim O’Reilly
AI and developer productivity, how AI changes the job, and more
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June 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The second guest on my new show Live with Tim O'Reilly is the inimitable Chelsea Troy, who leads the machine learning operations team at Mozilla, teaches computer science at the University of Chicago, and through the O'Reilly platform.
learning.oreilly.com/live-events/...
learning.oreilly.com/live-events/...
Really looking forward to chatting with Steve Wilson today at 11am ET/8am PT. Steve is both incredibly excited about the possibilities of AI but also deeply concerned about the new vulnerabilities and attack surfaces it opens up. Let's hear what to do about it.
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Building Secure Code in the Age of Vibe Coding: Steve Wilson Live with Tim O’Reilly
Navigate the security minefield of AI-assisted development—before it’s too late
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June 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Really looking forward to chatting with Steve Wilson today at 11am ET/8am PT. Steve is both incredibly excited about the possibilities of AI but also deeply concerned about the new vulnerabilities and attack surfaces it opens up. Let's hear what to do about it.
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My latest post on @OReillyMedia. Many Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs even seem to view putting people out of work as a massive opportunity. That idea is anathema to me. It’s also wrong, both morally and practically.
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AI First Puts Humans First
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May 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
My latest post on @OReillyMedia. Many Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs even seem to view putting people out of work as a massive opportunity. That idea is anathema to me. It’s also wrong, both morally and practically.
www.oreilly.com/radar/ai-fir...
www.oreilly.com/radar/ai-fir...
I'm really looking forward to this. Steve has some very spicy things to say about the security or lack thereof of the leading AI models and applications built around them. I'm looking forward to having him get very specific about his concerns.
On June 3, join @timoreilly.bsky.social and Steve Wilson for a conversation on how AI-assisted coding - #VibeCoding in particular - introduces new classes of #security vulnerabilities. Save your free spot now: bit.ly/4j7Npq4
May 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I'm really looking forward to this. Steve has some very spicy things to say about the security or lack thereof of the leading AI models and applications built around them. I'm looking forward to having him get very specific about his concerns.
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The trailer for "Python, the Documentary" is here! 🔥🐍
From its humble beginnings in the Netherlands to powering AI at the world’s biggest companies - this is the story of Python.
🎥 The film premiers at @europython.eu in July and will follow on our YouTube channel.
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From its humble beginnings in the Netherlands to powering AI at the world’s biggest companies - this is the story of Python.
🎥 The film premiers at @europython.eu in July and will follow on our YouTube channel.
Subscribe to stay updated!
May 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The trailer for "Python, the Documentary" is here! 🔥🐍
From its humble beginnings in the Netherlands to powering AI at the world’s biggest companies - this is the story of Python.
🎥 The film premiers at @europython.eu in July and will follow on our YouTube channel.
Subscribe to stay updated!
From its humble beginnings in the Netherlands to powering AI at the world’s biggest companies - this is the story of Python.
🎥 The film premiers at @europython.eu in July and will follow on our YouTube channel.
Subscribe to stay updated!
So many ads try to persuade the gullible of things that are false or overblown. A great ad says something that those in the know immediately recognize as true, and that others haven't yet discovered or thought about. This is a great ad. Kudos to Substack and its ad agency.
May 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
So many ads try to persuade the gullible of things that are false or overblown. A great ad says something that those in the know immediately recognize as true, and that others haven't yet discovered or thought about. This is a great ad. Kudos to Substack and its ad agency.
Last week, we held our first AI CodeCon, a four hour deep dive into the pros and cons of coding with AI, as well as people sharing their AI coding workflows and favorite tools. Here are some of my takeaways, www.oreilly.com/radar/takeaw...
Takeaways from Coding with AI
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May 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Last week, we held our first AI CodeCon, a four hour deep dive into the pros and cons of coding with AI, as well as people sharing their AI coding workflows and favorite tools. Here are some of my takeaways, www.oreilly.com/radar/takeaw...
Eye-popping graph from Adam Tooze confirms what we all knew: "Trump tariff uncertainty has been bad for US equity markets, but for the Mag7 the break came with DeepSeek." The AI investment boom turned into a bubble overnight as soon as DeepSeek demolished the promise of monopoly profits for AI.
May 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Eye-popping graph from Adam Tooze confirms what we all knew: "Trump tariff uncertainty has been bad for US equity markets, but for the Mag7 the break came with DeepSeek." The AI investment boom turned into a bubble overnight as soon as DeepSeek demolished the promise of monopoly profits for AI.
@stevenewman.bsky.social's new Golden Gate Institute for AI is sorely needed.
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Announcing The Golden Gate Institute for AI
And why "Am I Stronger Yet?" is now "Second Thoughts"
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May 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
@stevenewman.bsky.social's new Golden Gate Institute for AI is sorely needed.
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Just like AI, humans are shaped by the context we start with. If you care about the global economy and the future, @adamtooze.bsky.social's substack is a great thing to load into your context. Here's his explainer on trade and its place in the global economy.
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Chartbook 383 World Economy Now. May 2025. Putting Trump's trade tantrum in its place.
Where is the world economy now?
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May 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Just like AI, humans are shaped by the context we start with. If you care about the global economy and the future, @adamtooze.bsky.social's substack is a great thing to load into your context. Here's his explainer on trade and its place in the global economy.
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
Important post by my colleagues at SSRC, Isobel Moure and Ilan Strauss:
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Is the Internet's Business Model Finally Bust? (Weekly Roundup)
Weekly Roundup 7 May, 2025: Matthew Prince makes a splash, OpenAI juices its benchmarks, 4o sycophant shows the need for post-deployment monitoring of behavioral risks, and more.
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May 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Important post by my colleagues at SSRC, Isobel Moure and Ilan Strauss:
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"While #AI can assist in programming, a foundational understanding of #programming concepts is still required to effectively utilize these tools," @timoreilly.bsky.social y.bsky.social said: cacm.acm.org/news/catchin... #VibeCoding
May 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"While #AI can assist in programming, a foundational understanding of #programming concepts is still required to effectively utilize these tools," @timoreilly.bsky.social y.bsky.social said: cacm.acm.org/news/catchin... #VibeCoding
haven't been following the various cases on AI and copyright, but ChatGPTiseatingtheworld does just that. Here's the fascinating analysis of the judge's questions in tomorrow's hearing on Kadrey v Meta. chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/04/30/e...
Expressing skepticism of both sides’ arguments, Judge Chhabria poses 12 Questions on fair use & pirated books
Ahead of Thursday’s hearing on the summary judgment motions, Judge Chhabria issued an order at 3 PM PT for the parties’ lawyers to be prepared to answer. These are all excellent questio…
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April 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
haven't been following the various cases on AI and copyright, but ChatGPTiseatingtheworld does just that. Here's the fascinating analysis of the judge's questions in tomorrow's hearing on Kadrey v Meta. chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/04/30/e...