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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 8h
On October 5, Rohit Krishnan will join @timoreilly.bsky.social to share what has experiments reveal about human-agent coordination and how organizations should divide work between people and agents. Register here: bit.ly/4chZk4H
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 10h
What’s the data scientist’s role when agents can run the analysis? “AI-native data scientists build and direct an analytical process in which agents can investigate, receive feedback, and return evidence for review.” Read more: bit.ly/4AGrMqV
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The Agentic Data Science Playbook
How to build and direct data science agents, and make each investigation improve the next.
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 10h
“AI-generated UI should not be trusted because it looks complete. It should be trusted because the team has checked the right things.” Read the #Radar article Niharika P. Pujari to learn more: bit.ly/4jxix68
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Evaluating AI-Generated Frontend Code: What Should We Actually Test?
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As AI takes on more of the work of writing code, human judgment matters more, not less. “Human taste and judgment still matter. They’re going to continue to matter.” Read @timoreilly.bsky.social article: bit.ly/4db2ZkC
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Superpowers for Humans
I’ve known Jesse Vincent for more than 20 years, since the days when I was still editing and publishing Perl books and organizing the Perl Conference and he
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“AI is great at finding facts, organizing facts, and even writing about the things it finds, but what does it mean to possess that knowledge, to incorporate it into our thinking?” AI should build our understanding, not replace it. Read more: bit.ly/3Vo1pG0
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Not About Navier-Stokes
Using AI productively
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A fully built data center still isn’t ready for production until its services come online in the right order. “Without that end-to-end view, every team can report that its own work is on track while the region as a whole remains blocked.” Read Ankur Gupta’s #Radar article: bit.ly/3VhFX5G
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A Data Center Is a Dependency Graph Before It Is a Building
The buildings and physical infrastructure for a new hyperscale data-center region are complete. Power is live and redundant, the cooling loops are balanced,
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Graph modeling asks the question before that: What should the nodes and edges be?” In today’s #Radar article, Ammar Mohanna, PhD explores why graph modeling should be a first-class stage of AI development. Read to learn more: bit.ly/4dIT2uV
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From Raw Data to Graph-Native AI
Why graph modeling deserves as much attention as graph learning, GraphRAG, agents, and graph foundation models
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“In effect, you’re giving your agents a computer of their own.” Remote sandboxes let agents run code, install software, and use browsers, without touching your machine. Read Michelle Smith’s #Radar article: bit.ly/4y0KBmg
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Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Give Your Agent Its Own Computer
How sandboxed computers let agents run code, use browsers, and work independently of your machine
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An enormous share of LLM-powered components in AI applications today are being asked to make decisions: pass/fail, route A or B, etc. That’s something that LLM-as-a-judge evaluations are doing all the time, so it really made our ears perk up at Arize AI: bit.ly/3Tus7vU
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Will TypeSafe's Jev Change How We Build AI Applications?
The following article originally appeared on Arize’s blog and is being reposted here with the author’s permission.This week the AI community was in uproar
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Steven Hayes' conversation with Dan Gookin started as a publishing reunion. It ended with a much larger question: What happens when the software you rent becomes infrastructure you can’t leave? Read on #Radar: bit.ly/4hIXPip
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When Software Subscriptions Become Public Policy
My conversation with Dan Gookin, the original For Dummies author and now mayor of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, started as a publishing reunion. It ended with a much
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI systems are gaining access to more tools and data, raising new questions about oversight and accountability. This Week in AI Christina Stathopoulos examined how those questions are playing out in model safety, government oversight, and digital marketing bit.ly/4hgtt6I
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"A software factory is a repeatable loop around software work. If you’re building a software factory, code good enough to ship still needs human taste and ownership. We’ll discuss this including whether you need a factory just yet." @addyosmani.bsky.social bit.ly/4y9Jnps
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Human Judgment Doesn't Leave the Software Factory, It Relocates
A field guide to building a software factory that still has an owner.
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Ask most engineers what MCP is and you’ll get the same answer: a way to plug tools into an LLM. Fair enough, as far as it goes. But that description treats MCP like plumbing, and I don’t think plumbing is the right metaphor." #Radar bit.ly/4dVxYRW
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MCP Is Not Just Another API Standard
What Model Context Protocol actually changes for agentic systems, and what it doesn’t
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Week 4 of our Software Architecture cohort went deep into distributed architectures. With Neal Ford & Mark Richards, participants explored communication, consistency, coordination, and how these forces come together in approaches like transactional sagas. bit.ly/4ym4WDQ
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Become a Software Architect with Neal Ford and Mark Richards - O'Reilly Media
Learn software architecture directly from top experts with O'Reilly's immersive six-week cohort.
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Join @timoreilly.bsky.social at the O’Reilly booth on Wednesday morning before his keynote with Eric Reis. Stop by to chat about building AI companies that matter or just to say hi. Where: The O’Reilly booth #118 When: September 30, 8:30am–9:00am
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The clearest live adversarial problem involving AI is much more ordinary: humans using AI against other humans. Criminal applications are already real and deserve serious attention." Read #Radar article by Venkatesh Rao to learn more: bit.ly/4yggPuI
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The Accelerationist Case for Frontier Pacing
Slow AI is smooth AI, smooth AI is fast AI
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"AI sovereignty doesn’t necessarily imply total control of your AI stack. It holds the promise of having more localized security and privacy, better adherence to local jurisprudence, more dependable service, and more culturally specific outputs." bit.ly/4AoHUx2
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AI Sovereignty: Bargaining with Big Tech and the Promise of Full Stack Open Source AI
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Excel Cookbook @theexcelcookbook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
On September 30th, I’m running my Generative AI for Excel class for #OReilly. The course includes Copilot, the Claude for Excel add-in, and browser-based tools such as ChatGPT and Claude. Do join me! Register here: learning.oreilly.com/live-events/... @oreilly.bsky.social
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Generative AI for Excel
Using Claude, Copilot, and other AI tools to save time and work more efficiently
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In this episode of Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes, Chester Ismay, Ph.D. built a sports concierge agent to surface the games he should watch. It reads his preferences and current schedules, then sends a weekly summary to his phone. Check it out: bit.ly/3T1xe6S
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"It’s time to explore what post-training has actually accomplished in the frontier models you know and love." This is the third post in a four-part series about post-training by Sharon Zhou, PhD. Check it out: bit.ly/4xBx0RQ
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The Post-training Process OpenAI Used for ChatGPT
Walk through the pipeline that made ChatGPT such an improvement over GPT-3
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In his keynote at Ai4 2026, @timoreilly.bsky.social explains why grappling with the bitter lesson is the forge of effective AI corporate strategy, as companies figure out what to embrace and what to let go of. Check it out: bit.ly/3T0DyLT
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How to Get from AI-Assisted to AI Native
AI as an Enterprise Operating System, a keynote from Ai4 2026
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
OpenAI expanded into software control, scientific reasoning, and financial services this week, and investors committed billions more to AI companies across the stack. This Week in AI host Christina Stathopoulos looked at what those developments mean: bit.ly/4AkrENF
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Week 3 of our Software Architecture cohort took us from logical to physical architecture. Participants explored different architectural styles, how they work, when to use them, and when to avoid them, and more. Sign up for future learning opportunities: bit.ly/4ym4WDQ
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Become a Software Architect with Neal Ford and Mark Richards - O'Reilly Media
Learn software architecture directly from top experts with O'Reilly's immersive six-week cohort.
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Robots are fine operating in the dark, but humans need to see what they’re doing. If everything on the factory floor is dark, and you can’t see anything, and you can’t even find the light switch, that’s where the danger is." #Radar @addyosmani.bsky.social bit.ly/4dodCk6
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Software Factories, Light and Dark
The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission.A software factory harnesses
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Every company describes the landscape from wherever they happen to be standing. But when six vendors do that to the same word, practitioners are left translating between six versions of it before a design conversation can even start." bit.ly/4ybpChh
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Navigating the Modern Data Lexicon: A Working Vocabulary for the Semantic Era
The way we talk about data is changing faster than the way we build it. Every quarter a vendor ships a new approach, coins a new term for it, or quietly adopts
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Organizations continue to improve retrieval over collections that omit some of their most valuable operating knowledge. Better ranking can help people find what was recorded; it can’t recover the expertise that never entered the collection." bit.ly/4dqGfNB
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Architecting for the Knowledge You Can't Capture
Tacit knowledge is the hardest requirement in enterprise AI. Here's how a data and knowledge architect designs, and evaluates, for it.
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Machines can produce results that withstand verification while the understanding needed to explain them remains out of reach. Developing that understanding takes time, access, and collaboration. Whoever controls those conditions gains power. " bit.ly/3Tdqbb3
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Beyond Navier-Stokes: Who Controls Scientific Discovery?
What AI’s mathematical breakthroughs mean for human understanding, corporate power, and the future of knowledge work
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"My guest on this past week’s Live with @timoreilly.bsky.social was Emmanuel Ameisen, a researcher on Anthropic’s AI interpretability team. I wanted him to reprise the talk on Anthropic’s research into what is going on inside an LLM while it is processing and then go deeper." #Radar bit.ly/4rjajRd
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What AI Can Teach Us About Being Human
My guest on this past week’s Live with Tim O’Reilly was Emmanuel Ameisen, a researcher on Anthropic’s AI interpretability team. I’d heard him give a short talk
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If cybersecurity is part of your work, please answer these 11 short questions about the risks you’re seeing, the policies and resources guiding your organization, and how AI supports your work. It should take less than 10 minutes. Thanks in advance! bit.ly/3UPIS5f
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This article represents a reference architecture for LLM-powered enterprise analytics agents that coordinate purpose-built, heterogeneous data stores through intelligent orchestration while preserving security, performance, and auditability. bit.ly/4AxYR8z
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Enterprise Analytics Beyond Dashboards: Intelligent Data Orchestration with LLMs
How LLMs enable reasoning across heterogeneous enterprise data without centralized data consolidation
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
On 9/24, we’re hosting a live webinar showing O’Reilly Expert Intelligence in action. You’ll explore three AI workflows that your teams can use right now to evaluate an architecture trade-off, pressure-test a security design, or build a learning strategy bit.ly/3UUbc6v
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Andrew Stellman 👾 @andrewstellman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
From my @oreilly.bsky.social Radar article, “Why Doesn’t Anyone Teach Developers About Context Management?” www.oreilly.com/radar/why-do...
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Andrew Stellman 👾 @andrewstellman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
From my @oreilly.bsky.social Radar article, “Your AI Agent Already Forgot Half of What You Told It” www.oreilly.com/radar/your-a...
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Andrew Stellman 👾 @andrewstellman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
From my @oreilly.bsky.social Radar article, “So Long and Thanks for All the Context” www.oreilly.com/radar/so-lon...
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
On this week’s episode of Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes, Sajal Sharma showed how to set up that shared workspace yourself so that a task added on one tool shows up for all the others: bit.ly/4h8HnXc
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We’re conducting a survey to better understand your concerns and the steps you’re taking to address them. If cybersecurity is part of your work in any way, please answer these 11 short questions. It should take less than 10 minutes. bit.ly/3UPIS5f
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Security & AI Practitioner Survey
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"In my judgment, the standardization now underway will influence what engineering teams ship over the next three years as much as further gains in model capability." Learn more in #Radar article by Tommy T.: bit.ly/3T9fHJI
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The Interfaces Are Arriving
What agent interoperability standards change
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Pete Warden joined Ben Lorica to make the case that local AI no longer has to be a compromise. They get into what it actually takes to run a capable model on a laptop today. Check it out: bit.ly/4j2I0UH
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We’ll be at Gartner Data and Analytics India, September 21–22, talking with data and AI leaders about the skills their teams need to keep up with a fast-moving field. If you’re attending, make the O’Reilly booth part of your agenda. See you there!
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"An enterprise agent shouldn’t have to guess from prompts or conversation history whether it’s running under normal, incident, or recovery conditions. " Check out #Radar article by Shreshta Shyamsundar and Chidambaram GS to learn more: bit.ly/4cIc0S1
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Operating Mode as Runtime State: A Contract for Enterprise
How explicit organizational state helps agent platforms avoid exception drift
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This week was all about modeling behavior. Participants explored logical architecture and how to identify the components that form the building blocks of a system. Want to take part in a future cohort or other learning opportunities? Add your name here: bit.ly/4ym4WDQ
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Become a Software Architect with Neal Ford and Mark Richards - O'Reilly Media
Learn software architecture directly from top experts with O'Reilly's immersive six-week cohort.
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you’re attending Gartner Application Innovation and Business Solutions Summit, stop by the O’Reilly booth and let’s talk about how O’Reilly helps application and software engineering teams build practical skills with trusted content, AI-powered tools, and more.
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"There is more technical content available today than any human being could read in a thousand lifetimes. And yet most of the professionals I talk to say they don’t know what to trust." Check out new #Radar article by our Julie Baron to learn more: bit.ly/4r68y9O
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When Content Is Free, Trust Is the Product
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
On 9/16, Jesse Vincent joins @timoreilly.bsky.social lly to share how a personal CLAUDE.md file and a handful of prompts grew into a methodology used by hundreds of thousands of engineers. Register here: bit.ly/4chZk4H
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"In the past year, the conversation around agentic engineering has moved to harnesses and loops, fleets and software factories. My 2 cents is engineers need to own the outer loop—the accountability for these systems." #Radar article by @addyosmani.bsky.social bit.ly/4cC5GeN
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Own the Outer Loop
Why loop engineering needs a human at the boundary
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brentclaster.bsky.social @brentclaster.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Coming up on 9/14 from @oreilly.bsky.social & @techupskills.bsky.social, our popular online training "Implementing #AI #Agents in #Python" from noon - 5 pm EDT. Learn what agents are and how to build them, along with #MCP servers, true agentic #RAG & more. See learning.oreilly.com/live-events/....
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We’ll be at the Javits Center September 15–16 for LDX3 New York. Will we see you there? Stop by our booth and talk with us about how O’Reilly helps engineering teams and leaders build relevant skills through trusted content, practical courses, and expert guidance.
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
O’Reilly is heading to the Gold Coast September 14–16. Stop by our stand to talk about how O’Reilly helps technology teams stay ready for what’s next with trusted content, recognized experts, and AI-powered learning tools.
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Excel Cookbook @theexcelcookbook.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'm excited to be teaching a new live course for #OReilly on September 17th: Claude Skills for Excel. If you want a more repeatable way to use AI in your day-to-day Excel work, this is the course for you. Find out more and register: learning.oreilly.com/live-events/... @oreilly.bsky.social
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Claude Skills for Excel
Build reusable workflows in Claude and the Claude for Excel add-in
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Since everyone is talking to the same models, “skilled prompters” are getting the same results as people touching LLMs for the first time. This is wrong. The most important skill in prompting is expertise in the domain you’re prompting for." bit.ly/4iUCFPe
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LLMs Reward Expertise
The following article originally appeared on Sean Goedecke’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission.In the 2010s, if you had
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