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Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media. Doing my best to help good futures happen.

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Jesse Vincent @s.ly · 16/09/2026
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...
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Give Your Agents Superpowers: Jesse Vincent Live with Tim O'Reilly - Sep 16 - O'Reilly
What Claude's weights reveal about how it actually thinks
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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.
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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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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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/...
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Give Your Agents Superpowers: Jesse Vincent Live with Tim O’Reilly
Tools and workflows for a world where people think and agents do
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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.
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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...
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Writing with AI
A contrarian view
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The AI Disclosures Project @ai-disclosures.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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: bit.ly/4qbxj3K
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Prompt Debt and "Fighting the Weights"
Drew Breunig is one of the smartest voices writing about AI today. He's the CEO and co-founder of cmpnd.ai, and a long-time hacker with a depth of experience
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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...
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Why Open Source Matters for AI
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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...
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Jon Day · The Reality Effect: 'Did I think this, or was it Lucy Ellmann?'
What’s most unusual about Ducks, Newburyport isn’t its length but the sustained attention it pays to the details of...
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Marcelo Pinheiro @mpinheir.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
@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
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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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Vijay Pande (@vijaypande) on X
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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...
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When the One Big Beautiful Bill comes due
Real people are losing SNAP. Medicaid will be next
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/07/2026
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.
+1 (703) 214-7375
89 Days >
BREAKING: The House has officially PASSED the SAVE Act, a controversial bill that could...
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• Hey, it's Elaine Luria, Democratic candidate running to flip Virginia's second congression...
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Barack Obama just inspired a House majority
MIRACLE! (Trump is FREAKING OUT!!) Look...
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• ALERT: These four Democrats are our official nominees in these FOUR battleground Senat...
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• This is not a typo - Josh Shapiro
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+1 (404) 446-0367
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• It's Jon Ossoff. I don't love asking for money, so I want to pull back the curtain and explain...
+1 (407) 442-1430
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• It's Jon Ossoff. I have some bad news: I'm worried about my campaign's fundraising rig...+1 (645) 234-1563
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Hi, it's Nicole Locklin, Democrat for U.S.
Congress in South Florida's 26th District, the...
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Calling all Virginians!
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I've never run for office - now I'm leading in the polls in Kansas. - Adam Hamilton...
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• Chair of the Democratic Party of Louisiana here with an update on our Governor's State...
+1 (571) 650-0343
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It's Eugene Vindman. I'II be honest, I never thought I would be here today, writing to you...
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Hi, it's Attorney General Eric Holder. It's hard to believe what we just witnessed....
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• It's Chuck Schumer. Please, I'm asking:
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is insane www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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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 Economist @economist.com · 24/07/2026
“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”
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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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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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...
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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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"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.
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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/...
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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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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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: bit.ly/4chZk4H
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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-...
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Radar Trends to Watch: June 2026
Developments in policy and governance, infrastructure and ops, AI models, and more
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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...
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Opinion | Americans Want to Read. Give Them Books.
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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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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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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Totally.
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Lawrence taught me scenario planning, so his approval makes me very happy!
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
"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
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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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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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...
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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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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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...
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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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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
"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
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"Conviction Collapse" and the End of Software as We Know It
A conversation with Harper Reed
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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...
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"Conviction Collapse" and the End of Software as We Know It
A conversation with Harper Reed
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
So good! A wonderful metaphor for what's going on in AI coding today. www.dbreunig.com/2026/03/26/w...
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The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House
Welcome to the era of sprawling, idiosyncratic tooling.
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Except it's not a constitutional crisis, because everyone's just basically shrugging. It's something MUCH worse! A constitutional collapse.
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"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
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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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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Very much worth reading. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...
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Opinion | I Saw Something New in San Francisco
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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...
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What should a dollar of proof be worth?
Speculation versus fundamentals in modern wealth creation
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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...
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Federal employees are not ok
A new survey shows collapsing federal employee morale
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 15/03/2026
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."
Mike Lee tweet. He's quote tweeting a tweet from "Leading Report" saying that Dems are now the favorites to win control of the Senate in 2026.

Lee says: Let’s turn this around—by passing SAVE America 

Pass it onMike Lee quote tweeting MAGA influencer ALX saying:

Senate GOP, this is your sign to start doing your job and stop subverting the will of the people.

Pass the SAVE America Act.

Lee says: Republicans will lose power—likely for a long time—if we don’t get SAVE America passed 

This shouldn’t be hard 

It is, but failure cannot be an option
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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-...
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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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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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...
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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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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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...
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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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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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...
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David J. Farber, ‘Grandfather of the Internet,’ Dies at 91
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Addy is one of my favorite people to talk to about the future of software! I'm really looking forward to this conversation
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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.
A description of why political parties exist: not as a collection of people who share principles, but a set of people who propose to act together to achieve and hold power
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Lisa Ballard @basilleaf.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
@timoreilly.bsky.social 👀
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O'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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
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AI Codecon - Call for Proposals: Software Craftsmanship in the Age of AI - March 2026 - O'Reilly Media
The best developers are discovering that building with agents doesn't replace the need for craftsmanship; it demands new forms of it.
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I wrote a bit of a manifesto about the need for a circulatory AI economy. I'd love feedback on the piece, but more importantly, pointers to people who are doing interesting work on aspects of this problem. www.oreilly.com/radar/ai-and...
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AI and the Next Economy
The narrative from the AI labs is dazzling: build AGI, unlock astonishing productivity, and watch GDP surge. It’s a compelling story, especially if you’re the
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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...
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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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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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...
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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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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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/...
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Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Technologist Sam Newman
How should infrastructure evolve for AI workloads?
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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/...
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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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