I am today's guest on my own show. :-) I'm thinking about scenario planning for wildly different possible AI futures, how open source software will change with AI, and how to build a better AI economy, but you can Ask Me Anything, starting at 9 am PT/12 pm ET. www.oreilly.com/live/live-wi...

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. 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/...

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! www.oreilly.com/radar/we-are...

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. learning.oreilly.com/live-events/...

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

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...

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-...

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. chelseatroy.com/2025/06/25/h...

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. 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. learning.oreilly.com/live-events/...

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...

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.

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!

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...

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. secondthoughts.ai/p/founding-e...

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-...

Important post by my colleagues at SSRC, Isobel Moure and Ilan Strauss: open.substack.com/pub/asimovad...

"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...

Great review of my son-in-law Isaiah Saxon's new movie from A24, The Legend of Ochi, which comes out nationwide this weekend. discussingfilm.net/2025/04/19/t...

The Legend of Ochi is my son-in-law's movie, and it's amazing. It's opening in NY and LA this weekend, and that will shape how wide the release goes next week. So if you're in NY or LA, grab your tickets and go! www.instagram.com/p/DIjynf-yty...

Our @timoreilly.bsky.social argues we’re not witnessing the end of #programming, but the beginning of something far bigger. He draws on past computing revolutions to explore how #AI is reshaping what it means to build software. Check it out on Hugo Bowne-Anderson's podcast: bit.ly/4iL8JSL

My recent interview with Hugo Bowne-Anderson about AI and what I'm calling not "the end of programming" but "the end of programming as we know it." It's also available as a podcast; link in the comments. youtu.be/KlH65dwGH9A?...

Great post by @addyosmani.bsky.social, my co-chair on @oreilly.bsky.social's upcoming May 8 online event about the future of software development. I've been writing about what AI needs to learn from internet protocols, and Addy makes it real with concrete examples of how MCP is doing that.

It's hard to see how cutting off the source of US government revenue is going to make America great again. This is the kind of thing that you see in failed states. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I’ve been writing a series of posts about what AI can learn from other disclosure regimes. I’ve written about accounting standards, rules of the road, and now I dive into lessons from networking. TL;DR version: 1. Start small, with an extensible system that can grow over time;

I think this is the disconnect. Schumer still focused on POLITICAL STRATEGY. Democratic grassroots focused on the SUBSTANTIVE HARM being done to the United States.

Despite the somewhat confusing title, the body of this post is anything but confusing. It should be called "Understanding DOGE through the lense of AI Preppers." It makes so much sense of the enormous gamble Musk is taking with DOGE and the risks that come with it.

It is stunning how committed Trump is to removing American soft power, built up over generations.

Trying to imagine Biden withholding disaster funds from red states unless they first instituted gun control

Marc Andreessen said “it’s time to build” but the tech-right political/economic agenda is very clearly a fundamentally destructive project rather than a constructive one, and that’s being reflected in the economy

This is what Columbia Univ should have said in immediate response to the extortion note from the Trump admin. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

Everything Is Tuberculosis comes out THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. I am so excited and also nervous. I hope you like it. Preorder your signed copy at everythingistb.com

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Read this now www.ft.com/content/bcd3...

“World Eaters, how VC is cannibalizing the economy,” by @cbracy.bsky.social, interview by NYT’s Teddy Schleifer

@timoreilly.bsky.social in da house

1. Trump is pushing forward with his plans to create a "Crypto Strategic Reserve." No one has bothered to explain why diverting government resources into crypto has ANY STRATEGIC BENEFIT FOR THE UNITED STATES. The only benefit is for people who are current investors in crypto. It's a grift.

This post is SO, SO good. Very much in line with my thinking about AI and the future of software. I hope we can get @PhillipCarter.dev to speak at one of our upcoming #AICodeCon events.

Narrating my work in public: my latest post about the virtual event I'm developing on the topic of coding with AI, The End of Software Development as we Know It.

Great, detailed breakdown of the Musk takeover of government. *Amy Gleason, the official DOGE administrator, had worked as chief product officer in one of the companies of Brad Smith, who helped Musk plan DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

Henry Farrell's musings on the "Silicon Valley reading list" and what its readers miss in some of its canonical works is, as always, enlightening.

Spot on.